What is the issue?
The tragedy at Virginia Tech University yesterday got me thinking… What is the issue here?
Gun control?
College campus security?
Violence in the news?
Disturbing plays and how they should have been seen as a sign?
…
I think I’ve got it.
Hurting world. Hurting people. In some ways it’s just as bad when someone lashes out on another in anger, even when it doesn’t provide news-worthy results. Hurting people are almost as dead while their heart is beating as when it stops. Too. Much. Pain in this world. Isn’t there someone that can help with that?
Fortunately, the answer is yes.
My prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims and to the entire student body, faculty and staff at Virginia Tech.
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I think you are correct Joe. The fact of the matter is that if someone wants to act out this kind of horror, they are going to find a means no matter how strict the gun control, security and so on just look at 9/11. we certainly did not see that coming. Lets pray this will bring these people to hear about God that may not have listened before. Lata, Justin
I half way agree with you Justin. However, hearing about God is not enough. It is hearing God that makes the difference. I know that with my personal relationship with God I have heard of him but there are huge amounts of time where I don’t hear him. Not because he doesn’t speak, but because I either tune him out or choose not to obey. We need to pray that everyone will listen to God. On a more secular note though I do think gun control laws need to be reviewed. I think this country needs to take more serious precautions against attack. And I think people need to start taking more personal responsibiity for what is going on around them. A disturbing play? Call me Freudian but even I can read between those lines.
I don’t know if he could have killed 30 people in a few hours with a pair scissors, but thats another discussion. That’s also a joke, but I am not really joking.
The play was disturbing (I read it). I shudder at how college-level English courses will transpire in the future. Yes, precautions should always be taken when someone seems near the edge of hurting someone or themselves, but I don’t think every student that writes a disturbing play should be red flagged– I don’t want to live in an American that allows a guns to be purchased but censors the work of college English Literature majors. The fact that he spooked much of the class into not dropping a poetry course should have been taken more seriously, however.
Everyone wants to blame someone. There were students and teachers concerned and frightened by Cho, but none of them had anything substantial to point to as a threat. He was a weird, depressed, lonely boy. He was obviously not receiving the help (or the right help) that he needed. Already I have read articles point blame to video games, prescription medication, the VT administration, the VT teachers, Cho’s parents and gun control laws. None of the finger pointing will bring these people back to life. None of the finger pointing will save the first victim of this tragedy, taken long before the events of which, I believe, was Cho Seung-Hui.
I think you hit the nail on the head with “Hurting World,” Joe. 160 people were just blown up in Baghdad today. It’s barely even news right now.
Your points are well taken Justin.
I wasn’t disagreeing with you, Drew, Just kind of adding to what you said. I think the blame game is not only ineffective, but also kind of over-simplistic. It was a series of complicated problems that led to this situation, not the least of which was human nature. I’d like to think I could try to be friends with someone who needed a friend, but often that isn’t the case. The tragedy of loneliness is that it is very difficult to connect to people when you aren’t much fun to be around. I agree that he probably needed to connect to something bigger than this world, but through who? Cho Seung-Hui probably needed a friend years and years ago, by the time he reached this point he needed more than any one person could give him.
I didn’t think you were disagreeing. I just thought you brought up some really good points that I had overlooked.
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I still do not understand how gun control laws can be changed so that this kind of event won’t happen. Even if you are not old enough to buy guns like the kids at columbine if you are planning this kind of attack it is gonna happen. The only solution to these kinds of events is for us as humans to be sincere to those around us if you see someone hurting give them comfort. If you cannnot find someone who can. Like Justin D said this guy needed a friend a long time ago and apparantly he did not find one.