Guns don't kill people...

[waxter]

33 people were killed in a massacre at Virginia Tech in the US. On the front page of the newspaper, their photos were reprinted in memoriam and the psychological state of and videos made by the killer have been discussed in great detail. Flags were lowered to half mast and much of the Western world has been in a state of mourning and shock. These

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[anonymous]

Such is the reality of war. Different rules apply.

Sadly, it is in modern wars that the innocent people, the civilians, suffer and die, rather than soldiers who have committed themselves to a cause. And they die with anonymity with thousands of others by random bombings, rather than with honour at the point of a sword.

There is a song, I think by Bob Dylan, called "God on their side." It talks about all the major wars throughout modern history, and how the war is justified because "they", whoever "they" are, had God on their side. Its such a moving song, and more so, beacuse it is so very true.

[waxter]

The shame is that Dylan, the great songwriter and activist, one of the few people you'd think might have had some effect on people's views, changed nothing. We're back to exactly the same place we were in his time, and we are still dying for the same reasons.

And the musicians of today are writing the same songs, inspiring us, but changing nothing.

[anonymous]

Sigh.

[waxter]

Sigh.

[_am_ir_a_]

You have only articulated the truth, what so many of us are ashamed and ignorant to express. But it's the truth - and that's what makes it sad.

When I read this, I cried. I actually cried and I never cry.

Why is it that after so many events of violence, after repeated acts of bloody massacres, after the loss of so many innocent lives that America hasn't even considered the "Right to bear arms" is a failing and unjustified "right".

Will we only learn from the aftermath? Because we never learn from the accidental drops of agent orange, from the excessive consumption of MacDonalds, or most recently from the blood stains on the floors of universities/schools/places of safety and learning. Is it only after the accumulation of excessiveness that will we learn?

Some one who means the world to me, who's hands know how to function a gun, who's fingers are familliar with grenade pins, will be leaving for Iraq some time soon...

I guess we'll never learn.