VA Tech Shooting Aftermath Pt.1
Monday, April 23, 2007
It has been a week since Cho Seung-Hui has killed thirty two students and one staff member of Virginia Tech. Since then physchologists, analyitics, politicians and members of the media have been trying to point fingers at the trigger of the event.
My take on this. What's the point of trying to figure out why, when no matter what these types of actions will still occur. The circumstances don't matter, these actions still occur. Many people can link it to bullying. Although, the latter has might have a major factor it is not the sole reason. The biggest link that connect the ___ in the events is the fact that they were all mentally ill.
One thing that can be done to prevent other events from similar to these ones from happening are to change what we have done in the past. I would be lying if I said that we have changed some of our ways and this has helped in producing less school shootings because the number of shootings per year are increasing, and at a relatively fast one at that.
One thing that really ticks me off in this event, is the amount media attention there has been on it. This does not help the cause. In fact, it aggravates it. When Cho Seung Hui sent his media package to the television station. He was making a cry of attention. As described by his fellow students and teachers, he was a loner. The guy who didn't say a word and sat in the back. He was known as "?". In the past week, the headlines were always descibing something about the shooting. News channels featured the media package on their websites and on air, basically doing what Seung Hui wanted them to do. The channels were controlled by Hui in the same was as the students feared him when he held a gun in his hand.
This brings me to my next point. People are going crazy about how 33 people died when they forget that across the pond onto Middle Eastern countries, hundreds of innocent people are killed. Then those people say things like: "Well the shootings here were unnessecary deaths!" Well, so are the deaths of the innocent victims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whose numbers total up to much much more than those victims in the United States.
PART II to come soon.
And I am not a cold hearted person. I am just here to open the eyes of those who are asleep.
My take on this. What's the point of trying to figure out why, when no matter what these types of actions will still occur. The circumstances don't matter, these actions still occur. Many people can link it to bullying. Although, the latter has might have a major factor it is not the sole reason. The biggest link that connect the ___ in the events is the fact that they were all mentally ill.
One thing that can be done to prevent other events from similar to these ones from happening are to change what we have done in the past. I would be lying if I said that we have changed some of our ways and this has helped in producing less school shootings because the number of shootings per year are increasing, and at a relatively fast one at that.
One thing that really ticks me off in this event, is the amount media attention there has been on it. This does not help the cause. In fact, it aggravates it. When Cho Seung Hui sent his media package to the television station. He was making a cry of attention. As described by his fellow students and teachers, he was a loner. The guy who didn't say a word and sat in the back. He was known as "?". In the past week, the headlines were always descibing something about the shooting. News channels featured the media package on their websites and on air, basically doing what Seung Hui wanted them to do. The channels were controlled by Hui in the same was as the students feared him when he held a gun in his hand.
This brings me to my next point. People are going crazy about how 33 people died when they forget that across the pond onto Middle Eastern countries, hundreds of innocent people are killed. Then those people say things like: "Well the shootings here were unnessecary deaths!" Well, so are the deaths of the innocent victims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whose numbers total up to much much more than those victims in the United States.
PART II to come soon.
And I am not a cold hearted person. I am just here to open the eyes of those who are asleep.
