Another day among the dead

[kieli]

This is another sad, sad day. A young man once again his armed himself to the teeth and executed 32 people in classrooms, dormitories and other areas of Virginia Tech, about an hour and some change from where I live. It was like 9-11 all over again for me. Again, I was working and oblivious to everything else when one of the managers in the

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[setenshi]

yea. i had no clue what happened as well.

found out when ni told me about it.

very tragic indeed. very tragic.

this month is def. crazy.

[kieli]

Just this month? Oh no, seems like the past 8 yrs have been right mad! Virginia has just been having it's share of scandal, from the teacher convicted of making sex tapes of middle schoolers to the child that has been missing for four years yet her "foster" mother is still permitted to cash support checks for her, has been caught chaining foster kids to the walls of her basement, yet roams free. It's sick.

[setenshi]

well yea i get what you mean.

but this month for my state and every other state in the East Coast.

and yea...not just this month for everything added up...

[imperialmog]

Soneone I talked to online works right next to campus. I am relieved to hear she is alright. Just me or I think everyone is going insane and just mean? Don't you think everything is getting too nasty? Unfortunately many who say that are so reactinary in their solution it's no better or makes new problems.

Anyways I was in Atlanta for an interview last week and it's quite promising. Hope to hear a positive result soon.

[ifuritka]

That's why US is scary with this 'everybody can hav a weapon' idea. Less people died in the whole process of our famous strikes in 80's and we had state of war than. So sad.

[shigan]

I got the news this morning. My condolescences and thoughts are with those involved and their families.

Don't take this the wrong way but again and again, events like this in USA makes me grateful for the Swedish gunlaws. Sure, organized criminals have their share of firearms but the worse thing that can happen if someone goes bonkers is a hunting knife, Anna Lindh now withstanding.

[kieli]

We supposedly have gun laws, too....however, in a country where racist militias and the Ku Klux Klan are allowed to exist (and that Right to Bear Arms clause in our terribly outdated Constitution) who can maintain control?

It's easier to say it's better in smaller countries like Poland and Sweden....both countries fit inside of the state of Texas with room to spare! Policing countries that small is far easier than trying to police a country as wide and open as the US. If our citizens only had more fucking SENSE to try to resolve their differences without breaking open a case of ammo.....anger management classes should be required in ALL US schools >_>

[ifuritka]

Hm

[kieli]

The logic here is a bit flawed....if the citizenry does not have access to guns (legally speaking but since the black market flourishes in Eastern Europe, it would be naive to say that citizens there have no access to guns at all) that does not necessarily correlate to less gun violence (as anyone in Serbia, Croatia and Chechnya can attest). I get the feeling that a lot of such things go underreported due to a number of factors: lack of manpower, lack of people who wish to report these incidents, fear, etc

BY THE WAY

[kieli]

This shooter was not even an American citizen....a fact I find very interesting, even odd:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html