The Virginia Tech shootings are everywhere you look- newspapers, magazines, talk shows, trying to understand what could drive a 23-year-old guy to go on a shooting rampage and kill 32 innocent people. Cho Seung-Hui was a loner, depressed, isolated. So what? These are excuses, give me a reason. Almost every teen goes through a phase like that, very few take their rage out on other people by killing them. How do you then sift through thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of troubled people and pluck those who are going to vent their rage violently?
I was going to write a different blog, about a forward I recieved on Orkut about Meenal Panchal, an Indian student who was one of the victim's of Cho Seung-Hui's shooting spree. About how Orkut has stepped beyond re-connecting with old friends, making new friends, checking up on ex-flames, meeting more people. It's become a platform for sharing feelings, bridging geographic and some cases, earthly divides. I wanted to write about the messages I've read on a family friend's profile after he passed away in a tragic car accident. His friends, and even family still scrap him giving updates on lives, their pain at losing him, what he meant to them. Sadly, and somewhat eeriely, his presence lives on through his Orkut profile...
And then I got this forward about Meenal, and saw the messages her friends have left for her and felt the impact of the tragedy all over again. I wish there was a way to anticipate when a person crosses the line between sanity and insanity. I wish there was a way for students to attend school/college with fear that they or someone they love could get shot by a peer. For professors to be able to teach without fear that they might be next in a firing line..
My heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families.
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good piece but lacks the fire.some
good words like i do'nt know but the ones that will cause emotional build up would have caused more effect.
i do feel sorry for all the families and friends of victims'
but call of time is ever so powerful.
we are all a function of time and space having no control either over time ,or the space.
time for me to grow and go.
keep writing and one day it might be a big piece of writing.
Thank you:)
That kid was so messed up! Initially I thought it was just an act of rage & anger, but then after the video it was apparent that he had planned it all for months! I felt bad for his family as much as the families of the victims! How come the media has not shown anything abt his family yet? Or have they?
No they haven't Radha. The rage and confusion are too intense to leave much room for empathy for his family..
How do you then sift through thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of troubled people and pluck those who are going to vent their rage violently?
You can't. At least not yet.
We don't have control over the human factor. However, we do have control over the gun. Why are they still freely available after so many kids have died?
Good point Entrepreuni. Gun regulations aren't tight enough..and its imp. to be able to gauge a person's sanity (or insanity) before they ruin anyone else's life.
Well, considering that Cho was declared mentally unfit and a possible danger to self or others how was he able to legally purchase a gun?
Plus looking at the video he released its obvious that he had been planning this for a while, it wasn't an act of passion. It was cold blooded murder.
Radha, his family has issued a heartbroken apology for his unspeakable actions and are currently under police protection.
- Suramya
Thanks for the update Suramya.. I hadn't read the apology yet..
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