Virginia Tech
Well I haven't seen anyone else posting about it on my friends group.. nor do I intend to delve into the tragedy of it all. I find it staggering that one kid managed to kill over 30 people in less than three hours. This is the kind've shit you'd expect to see in Natural Born Killers, not in real life. What's even more disturbing is that these killing spree's have recently ended in suicide. There is no standoff, no apprehension. It leaves many questions open and a feeling of injustice. And this is sad but true... it isn't going to get any better.
When you look at it from an observers perspective, it's hard not to be amazed at the damage one person did. Everyone is so edgy on terrorists and post-9/11 & Iraq turmoil that our internal conflicts and struggles get overlooked. What scares me more than this... is what happens when terrorists do strike. All this does is give them plans for attack. You take a terrorist cell of say 15 people, who meticulously plan an attack plot, have access to more sophisiticated weapons and pick a target such as a school, concert hall, or sports complex.. whatever and you're going to have a lot more than 30 dead. It's one of the first things that came to my mind when I heard about the VT story.. "what's next?". I don't really see a solution either. If you put security all over the place, we're all just going to be in this state of fear and lock down and our economy will suffer (as if it isn't already). All we can do is wait and see.
When you look at it from an observers perspective, it's hard not to be amazed at the damage one person did. Everyone is so edgy on terrorists and post-9/11 & Iraq turmoil that our internal conflicts and struggles get overlooked. What scares me more than this... is what happens when terrorists do strike. All this does is give them plans for attack. You take a terrorist cell of say 15 people, who meticulously plan an attack plot, have access to more sophisiticated weapons and pick a target such as a school, concert hall, or sports complex.. whatever and you're going to have a lot more than 30 dead. It's one of the first things that came to my mind when I heard about the VT story.. "what's next?". I don't really see a solution either. If you put security all over the place, we're all just going to be in this state of fear and lock down and our economy will suffer (as if it isn't already). All we can do is wait and see.