I feel sorry for all the students and families of the dead/injured who are now caught up in a media circus. Edit: on rereading that sounds a bit neglectful of the actual victims, it is a huge tragedy,makes me scared something like that could happen at my uni. I just dont get how he was allowed to walk around with a gun for TWO HOURS between shootings.
Dang why does this kind of thing have to happen... What a tragedy. I don't think its an evil person who did that... He was described as calm yet serious. He must be in a cranky state of mind to be like that. You know those kind of things where people say they hear voices and all that.
Perhaps he'd just resigned himself to dying, and therefore he knew that no matter how many people he shot/killed, he wouldnt have to face the consequences.
I've been hearing on the news this morning that there were students saying they received emails from the University around two hours after the first shots. Not much help though. They were also saying that the University is very large and they wouldn't have been able to lock it down so they were just telling students to stay inside away from windows and doors.
The news today says they have confirmed it was a student who committed the shootings. Hopefully this will lead the US to change their very liberal laws on gun ownership.
Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Amending the U.S. Constitution is extremely hard to do as you must have something like 2/3 of Congress to ratify the amendment. With that being said, it is hard to achieve those type of votes.
I think more of these will happen if guns arn't banned in the US, though i don't think this will happen since people in America feel so strongly about it.
Whether guns are banned or not, there will always be a time when someone bypasses the system. It sucks that this is the type of world that we're living in right now, where teenagers possess such cruel state of minds.
Its not so much a matter of bypassing the system... Guns are banned here in England yet people still get shot. But then, noone has walked into a school and killed 32 people that I can ever remember.
That's what separates your country from ours. USA is known for its violence while other countries can control their violence to a minimum of none.
there has been something like that...jus not in england, in scotland. Dunblane if u remember. i think its just sickening and it really makes u wonder, wot in the hell made him tick and crack like that. i shudder to think
I don't think he ticked in the way you're thinking. Yes, his mind was completely disturbed in the actions he chose but I think he enjoyed doing what he did to thos students. There are some people in this world who are so anti-social and careless that they'd do something similar as to get a message across. He had nothing to lose, or gain from his actions so it was his sick pleasure I guess.
The US government are almost as much to blame for this as the guy who went in with a gun. How on earth a country can be as irresponsible for so long is beyond me. They're breeding generations of people who consider guns to be the norm. It's heartbreaking to think about what the friends and families of those involved must be going through. The saddest thing is that there is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that this will happen again countless times until the US government wake up and do something
I don't think it would make a difference if the US changed their laws to not allow guns. If a person really wanted to go into a University and start shooting people they could probably get a gun. Not from their local gun store, but from the streets. Atleast the way it is now the Government knows who the gun belongs to with serial numbers. If people had to start buying them off the street from gangs there wouldn't be serial numbers and there'd be no way of tracking the shooter.
I think Dumblane was a one off in the UK and lessons were learned from it. You can get a gun on the black market in the UK but not for a few dollars . You need money and contacts and the penalties for getting caught in possession of a firearm are high. Any shooting in the UK makes headlines , in the US it's a daily thing.
What are you talking about? Just because a member of a race does something like this doesn't mean the whole race is going to be treated differently. I seriously doubt that anybody is going to be treating Koreans differently or give them a bad name. I also heard on the news this morning that they think there was another shooter, but I havn't heard anymore about that.