i am in the USAF and currently deployed to the middle east, i had just heard the news.....it makes me sick to think i am here doing what im doing so psychos like that can live in a free country!
2007-04-16 08:06:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Sh!t Happens. :-(
unfortunate
2007-04-16 13:01:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first thought was: why is my country so violent?
My second thought was an image I got of an foreign student going completely off his rocker (for some reason Indian or Pakistani comes to mind - for absolutely no reason. I simply sometimes get an immedate image of something or someone and I indulge a fantasy I have that I have psychic abilities - then it turns out in reality that I was way off the mark...).
Then I wondered what was building up to make the person use violence to the external world to solve some violent feelings he was feeling in his internal world.
Bullying is a huge topic in American high schools and even the lower grades. I wonder if it is central to the pain in the lives of college students too.
In Great Britain, the traditional hazing rituals that have gone on for many years in schools there have a hierarchy of bullies preying on weaker students. Why is that country not plagued by this kind of senseless violence?
I ask myself, Why is my country, so bragged about, so full of its own importance, so violent?
2007-04-16 15:16:31 · answer #2 · answered by kathyw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frustrating irony isn't it..? THe US military is spread all over the globe promoting democracy and standing up for all that is good in the world.. and something like this happens at home and we stop to question ourselves because of it.. Just like everything in the media, there is certainly a whole lot more to the story than we will ever know. I consider it an isolated incident from a disturbed individual with unfortunte circumstaces that coincidentally occured in the same place a year earlier. Just sad... everything about it.
2007-04-16 15:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by lost_but_not_hopeless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That psycho isn't free anymore. He's dead.
Here I am in the US worrying about you folks in the Middle East protecting our country, and you are worrying about us.
31 killed, not counting the monster, so I've heard.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
2007-04-16 15:13:49 · answer #4 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's terrible!!! I'm watching the news right now. It's scary, I know people who go to VT!
2007-04-16 15:11:52 · answer #5 · answered by je t'♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sick to my stomach, over this. This is a terrible tragedy my heart goes out to all that is affected by this, as well as my prayers.
2007-04-16 15:10:53 · answer #6 · answered by That one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really sad those students weren't able to defend themselves.
2007-04-16 15:12:35 · answer #7 · answered by Gustav 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋