Thursday, May 10, 2007

Killer felt he was persecuted and was out to get even
Strait times/15 June 07

Basically a recent school shooting had occured at virginia tech college. The gunman, aged 23 from south korea, brutally killed 32 of his fellow school mates which were neither his friend nor aquitance.
Officials of south korea were worried that this uproar might turn into racism towards Asians. That is almost similar to the animousity between the terrorists and the Americans today. In my opinion, just one accident should not suffice the Americans to generalize that all Asians are evil.
With the reoccurances of school shootings, students, if not, viewers will no longer sense the seriousness of mass massacre in schools. rather, some students may take these gunmen as their role models. Worst of all, if idolizing gets carried too far, similar incidennces will repeat itself again.
The profit driven media also seems to be glamorizing such an act. In order to gain higher viewship, they are splashing the killer's face across the television and any magazine with any chance they get; Not knowing they are encouraging such brutal violence in schools or even the work place.
What made this recent school shooting possible once again? In the eyes of many are the lax gun laws in America. Law makers in state legislatures and congress have it within their power to bring sanity to the gun laws, but they lack the political will to.
The society should step up on relationship bondingas well. People should learn to forgive one another,and accept each other faults. Most importantly, to abstain from descrimination against people of another race.

1 Comments:

Blogger Clarence Tan said...

The Land of the Free is to me sometimes the Land of the Twisted.

School shootings have been so rampant that it worries not only Americans but foreign students who are planning to go there for further education.

In the case of the VT shootings, I agree with what the perpetrator said in his manifesto that both him and those who abused him have innocent blood on their hands. Bullying cases can often lead to mania and in this case, it has happened. The authorities should stop blaming the lax gun laws or twisted little kids like Chou and have a good look at themselves and ask if they are doing enough to make schools a wholesome and healthy environment for children of all races and aptitudes to learn.

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