http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:26:28 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-579943 These senseless killings are becoming more common as the levels of stress and confusion increase within a society that has clearly lost it's way. You can easily dismiss this and chalk it up to a set of neurons gone haywire in a single young person's brain. You will hear comments like he was "troubled", "needed help". Some who may have known him casually will say all the "signs where there". But what are we really dealing with? Why is suicide not enough? He was supposedly on anti depressants according to one source. Why does a "troubled mind" also feel compelled to kill others along with themselves? The only lesson really learned here is just how vulnerable we all are to the senseless acts of madmen. Whether those madmen are thousands of miles away in a foreign land pledged to some insane neanderthal religious beliefs, or an alienated person just "fed up" with the world around them walking next to you in a shopping mall or in an amusement park. The sensationalism of TERROR is beginning to to extract an even bigger price in our society. It is becoming more and more the option for "going out in a blaze of glory" -- knowing that in "death" they will have "lived". Sick, twisted, but yet being reinforced in the media... ________________________________________ ZZ Bachman / <a href="http://zardozz.com/zz/">ZardozZ News & Satire Portal</a> 579943@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:26:28 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-579932 This is just so tragic and unnecessary. The worst aspect of this all was the long wait between the initial attack and the second wave. Why didn't someone act sooner to lockdown that campus? There needs to be an extensive look at what went wrong here because we can all learn from these tragic mistakes. 579932@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:51:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-578984 How Can One Be Filled With Such Hate? to act upon anger, and not realize before it's too late? What thoughts could have been going through your mind? to provoke such violence, unto the blind? we always think we're safe from hell. as long as we believe in god,then it's to late to hear the school bell. We all imagine dying in a peaceful way. Until something horrendous takes place, and so we pray What brings one to provoke such aweful actions? and do they think about the worlds reaction? Does he practive and plan with a gun and knife? getting a high from taking anothers life? you never think it'll happen to you... And when it does it's hell on earth, but theres nothing you can do. so for the poor lost souls filled with hate please don't act upon anger before it's to late and for those whose lives where taken let us pray for their families, thou earth be shaken Don't forget the ones who are broken and torn. Because they are left to wallow and mourn. The images and sounds will never sease. So Join together and let us all in God pray Please. A Poem for those in the Tragedy taken place, Monday April 16, 2007. God Bless You. 578984@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:15:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-578954 The debate will begin again. Guns. No guns. I like no guns myself. You have guns, people get shot. No guns. No one gets shot. Seems simple enough. Nay, nay say the gunsels. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. But don't guns make it much easier for people to kill people? Isn't pulling a trigger less personal than strangling someone? Could the Virginia Tech tragedy have happened if the killer had walked into the classroom with say, a bow and arrows, a knife, or a cudgel? Perhaps, but likely not on nearly the scale that having two guns and ample ammunition afforded him. Some will suggest that it's the price we pay for freedom and our great tradition of having the ability to pump people full of holes if we choose. Pretty heavy price, wouldn't you say? Baritone 578954@blogcritics.org Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:40:35 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-578781 Tragic. I'm not sure how anyone can stop this again in the future. Hmmm. Do we need students packing in the classroom like we do on airplanes now? God Bless Them All 578781@blogcritics.org Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:49:12 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/16/155339.php#comment-577307 Wow. Just wow. 577307@blogcritics.org Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:56:07 EDT