“- - - - but being in this country under a legal visa as a non-citizen still probably means you can be surveilled legally by the government in ways that citizens cannot.”
That’s where I have a problem. I agree with the law (if that is the law), unfortunately if this fellow happened to be Mexican or African here illegally no one would be watching him at all. He could be a thief, rapist or be a hate filled anti-American protester on welfare and no one would care. He’s a little smarter than the protected classes and knows enough to research the law. Lefties just hate this. Now being a gun toting Asian, lessons need to be taught, they are probably assembling the firing squad right now.
It’s leftist hypocrisy.
I may agree or disagree (though I believe non-citizens should NOT be allowed to own or carry weapons in this country) but this is Virginia Tech, and like it or not, everyone having anything to do with weapons (likely including Mexicans or Africans here illegally, though it is hard to imagine even THEY would be stupid enough to go to a firing range, or even try to get a license) is going to be watched.
PARTICULARLY if you are Asian. As another poster said, they are touchy about that there. For better or worse, that is a fact.
When I go on a plane nowadays, yes...I look at people of middle eastern extraction with a careful eye. Right or wrong, I am a little sensitive about that as well.