Naturally we all want to blame somebody - or something - for the senseless massacre at Virginia Tech. Maybe it was mental illness. Maybe it was his upbringing. Neglect. Too much violence on TV. Blah blah blah.
It was more than likely a combination of factors that led him to do this. Rarely does one act driven by only one motivation.
But the thing is - these motivations are commonplace. There are a lot of mentally ill young men. There are a lot of neglected kids. Lots of people watch, and internalize, TV violence. But these people don't trap innocent people in a building and start spraying them with bullets.
The point is, a lot of things have to happen to allow such a massacre to erupt. If certain things in this process didn't happen, then neither would the massacre.
Should not we, as a society, invest some time and energy into implementing ways to derail such nefarious trains before they reach their destination?
And that's gun control. No, make that a ban. The 2d Amendment was never meant to allow such a bloodbath. Yes we can blame a lot of other things. But "The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. Then President Bush arrived at the lectern to decry the deaths of the students and their suspected gunman. As News & Observer columnist Barry Saunders wrote, "C'mon, dawg. The least you could've done was express condolences for the dead kids and their families first."
But we cling to the 2d Amendment, as if it could never be changed or limited. The rest of the world laughs at the 2d Amendment and the ridiculous gun lobby as a relic of a bygone era, kept alive by good ol' boy cash and consituting further proof that we Americans have absolutely no common sense. But then, neither do we Americans care what the rest of the world thinks of us. Just let us keep our guns, 'cos they go bang and it's cool.
Authorities found a $571 receipt for a 9mm glock, a firearm capable of rapid firing and able to deploy more than 10 bullets, purchased recently from a firearm store in Roanoke, Virginia. He had no criminal record, and he was legal. So he walked in and bought the gun. But you can't blame the storeowner. There is no way he could have known what the kid was plotting. But the system....ah....yes, you CAN blame the system. It killed 32 people.
Of all the reasons why Cho Seung-Hui did what he did, if he couldn't have gotten his hands on that $571 glock, then none of this....
What the hell. We have a constitutionally protected right to bear arms. It says so, in the 2d Amendment. It's for protection, oh, and recreational use.
I guess it's just too bad the 2d Amendment didn't protect the 32 victims of a clearly non-recreational user.
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2 comments:
I would like you to use less offensive language.
I agree that there are multiple factors for this youngman who appears to have planned the whole thing well and executed it flawless and the system allowed it.
This is very difficult to pinpoint or blame one corner but even the system and II ammendment all could have failed. However there is always this national rifle assn and such people coming up to tell us it is not the fault of the guns.
However I would strongly advise the American administration to make a serious unprejudiced study of how does our country compare with others especailly western like canada, Australia, England and some other European countries as to how many gun-related accidents and how many gun-related robberies and killings etc. occur per year per person (Population dependent)and then we may have some leads to help us formulate a scientific analysis.
I feel that need is urgent and should be promoted and NOT funded by organisations that have vested interest of one kind or the other in this business.
yes Gun-control is not the whole story.
I will have Islamic perspective that I shall briefly tell my audience on Juma in Fayettevile insha-Allah
ahh ha abbu told YOU!!
but, i dig.
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