by Jonathon Scott from THE BLACK AGENDA REPORT

The Virginia Tech shootings are described as the worst "in history." But in fact, mass murderers founded Virginia, and continued their slaughter for centuries. Gun control will not prevent violence and mass murder in America - certainly not in Virginia, a state that is "second to none" in its barbaric history of violence. The author puts the origins of endemic violence in perspective, as the legacy of racial and class exploitation that claimed whole peoples, and has never truly ended. Although Virginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho was "clearly a sociopath," sociopaths also founded Virginia and have been in charge ever since. In a grotesque sense, Cho was simply acting like an American.

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