VA Tech Shooter
I just got finished watching the video of the shooter. It's all so frightening that people capable of such horrible things walk among us everyday and we have no idea. He's railing against people who have hurt him... he sounds like he was bullied most of his life. I wonder if that's true or it's just what he believed out of some mentally ill paranoia. I wonder if it's all reactionary. Does the cruelty of others really make the monsters? Would this guy have been different if he hadn't felt persecuted? Obviously he was already emotionally disturbed, but what pushes someone to the point of such action? Is it something that would have happened anyway? There's never a common denominator with the people who commit these types of crimes... except maybe that they do all seem to be male. Does anyone know of a female that has done something like this, I can't think of one. Maybe it's because while girls are usually catty and verbally cruel to other girls... guys get the verbal AND physical abuse. I guess certain people are born with the mental illness and life just pushes them over the edge. I don't understand any of it.
It scares the hell out of me... mostly because you generally never see it coming. I mean, there was evidence that this guy was off his rocker, but undoubtedly nobody could have predicted this. The laws are set up to deal with someone after they do something that makes them dangerous... not before even when there are signs. We're not allowed to lock up people who are crazy until they've hurt someone else or themselves. You send your children off to school or college and a crazed person shoots them dead. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. You can't identify and lock up the crazies that have the potential of doing what this kid did before they actually do anything. And, you can't lock your kids up in a bubble and keep them safe from everything in the world.
This year I've made a marked effort to cut back on being too overprotective of my kidlets, but the world is such a frightening place sometimes. All you can do is hope they're not around when someone loses it like that.
It scares the hell out of me... mostly because you generally never see it coming. I mean, there was evidence that this guy was off his rocker, but undoubtedly nobody could have predicted this. The laws are set up to deal with someone after they do something that makes them dangerous... not before even when there are signs. We're not allowed to lock up people who are crazy until they've hurt someone else or themselves. You send your children off to school or college and a crazed person shoots them dead. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. You can't identify and lock up the crazies that have the potential of doing what this kid did before they actually do anything. And, you can't lock your kids up in a bubble and keep them safe from everything in the world.
This year I've made a marked effort to cut back on being too overprotective of my kidlets, but the world is such a frightening place sometimes. All you can do is hope they're not around when someone loses it like that.