Responding to Tragedy: Bushs Address After the Virginia Tech Shooting

Pivotal Document: President Bush’s Weekly Radio Address Following Virginia Tech (2007) Bush’s address came in response to one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history “Virginia Tech Shooting”. The address aimed to provide comfort, solidarity, and leadership in the aftermath of the tragic event at Virginia Tech University, where a gunman killed 32 people and wounded many others before taking his own life. Such a response is in line with the demands of hate crime attacks that perpetrators engage in while conducting mass shooting. In the video, a young youth of 21 years decided to tak