Yet another time.....
I think many others have read with horror just what happened recently at Virginia Tech.I also think that many of us have just about the same reaction.. Disbelief and shock. It seems just like not too long ago, that the Amish school, also in the United States, where some of the victims were killed military style. Then there was the Columbine High school massacre....
Its really shocking, and many questions arise.
How did these boy(s) get guns so easily? I know the issue of gun control has always been a big one in the US, but with cases like this happening almost regularly, its time some of the law makers in the US start debating legislation on gun control, rather than on how much money they should spend on 'Da War On Terror", the sum of which I think exceeds our country's entire budget! Something is seriously wrong, when a 17 year old kid can get a gun when he really wants to, whether its from his fathers closet or other means. The fact that these guns are available is cause for worry. I cant imagine being a parent there. I don't think mom and dad's around the world drop their kid off at school wearing bullet proof vests, but perhaps after this, some parents will, at least in America.
The other thing is, how come so many youngsters there just seem to want to kill each other? No doubt, this wasn't done by your regular hormone charged teen, these shooters were dysfunctional psychologically, but how come there are so many of them? How come there are so many dysfunctional minds in the American schooling system? There is something serious when a nation is busy going out to war, forcing its soldiers to shoot innocent children aboard while at home, their own children are shooting each other.
Lets not talk about the American constitution, about the right to bare arms etc. The fact is, guns are more legally accessible in America than in most nations. Its a double edge sword. You can buy a gun to protect your family and your home. But so can the next man on the street, who might suddenly decides that your shoes are to die for, and bang.........
The long term solution is to seriously study what is really going on with these children and why so many are going down this tragic path, taking innocent lives with them. But it would take years of study and understanding, and by that time, perhaps even more incidences would have occur But in the short to mid term, serious gun control would present a stop gap measure. Its much more difficult to kill 30 people with even a dozen knives, then with 1 single fully loaded handgun.
In Malaysia, the only thing we have to shoot our classmates with is a rubber band. It looks so uncool, but at least you got to shoot them all you want, and everybody goes home with their organs intact.
My heart goes out to the parents and loved ones of those who died.
posted by Compulsive Blogger @ 8:20 pm
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