To those of you posting sensless questions on the Forum today?

Question

People lost their lives yesterday in a senseless act of violence. Students watched fellow students- shot in the head at point blank range. All the world needs right now is Prayer and Love......what are you contributing? Take a look inside yourself and make the necessary changes today. My heart goes out to those that witnessed the shootings... lost friends in the shootings, and the families that lost their loved ones. May their souls rest forever in peace with God.

Sho Nuff... what does your answer have to do with my post?

Mr Yahoo.. read my other questions to get your answer to that.

Tmarie99, hot carl, squishy, george 23, fuddles, neofrehl, abeterf..... Although i disagree with everything you said... I will not stoop to your levels. I have posted many questions about Iraq, 9/11.. Trolley Square etc. . Thank You for persecuting me. Means I touched a sensative nerve.

Answer 1

I agree. My heartfelt sympathies are with the families and friends and all those who experienced such a tragic event. God is with all of them and will help them through this with all of our prayers. And for those who wonder why he didn't do anything to stop it. God uses all of us to better each other, but more importantly, he uses us to test each other. Yesterday was a tragedy, and unfortunately those inocent victims were the targets.

Answer 2

What happened yesterday was a tragedy most certainly and it is a terrible thing for their families to come to grips with.

However, in other parts of the world, there are planned and organized wars and genocides taking place.

In Africa, millions are being slowly starved to death or purposefully infected with slow lingering diseases such as AIDs.

These students do not have to deal with the insidious results of depleted uranium in their bodies.

These students luckily died FAST. They do not linger for months and years waiting for death, watching their families and loved ones shot or hurt before them. To be honest, they were lucky in an unusual way.

I suggest that someone find the real truth behind this sad event. I suggest that this was done to push forward the demand for gun control in America. This is very desired by your government.

As for making the necessary changes, what do you suggest? It takes a lot more than prayer to do much.

Answer 3

Why is this considered a tragedy only when it happens in the United States? The day before yesterday 48 people lost their lives in a senseless act of violence in South Africa. Did your heart go out to them as well or did you go about your day as normal because you didn't hear about that tragedy? Just because something made front page news doesn't make it any more or any less significant. What you need to realize is that when you are on the internet, you are no longer dealing with people from one nation, you are in a global community and what happened in Virginia means about as much to some of these people as what happened in South Africa means to you.

Grieving is a very selfish act and one which should be done privately. In public, one should should always act with dignity and grace, a lesson you would do well to learn.

Answer 4

As cold-hearted as this may sound, I don't want to take anything away from those people who lost their lives yesterday and their families, BUT people die by the hundreds everyday in the Middle East due to terrorism and suicide bombings. We live in a better developed society here in the USA, but that doesn't mean that these things can't happen. It just happens more frequently elsewhere in the world.

Answer 5

Worse than this happens all over the world every day. I too feel compassion for the families of the victims, the witnesses, hell, even for the shooter and his family (despite our tendency to refer to such people as sub-human, these horrible acts are in fact carried out by people -- usually people in a lot of pain or who are deeply troubled and that capacity is in each and every one of us). If I were the family member of a victim, I would be enraged at the spin put on this incident by those wishing to make this event a point of leverage to promote this cause or to denounce that group or to pray to this god or that. Just keep the families, friends and students in your thoughts.

Answer 6

I think a good way to show people you care about them is to censor and censure others for disagreeing with myself.

We all know that a single act of violence means we should all fall in line and obey.

That's why we have dictators, not elected officials.

Oh, wait, we *DO* have elected officials, censorship and restricting points of view we dislike IS wrong, and not all of the students were Christians or even theists.

Who do you think YOU are telling people the right way to grieve?

Answer 7

Yes, the tragedy is heart-breaking. But how many people die every day in Iraq? Just because something happens at home doesn't make it worse than in other places. Think of what the families of deceased go through in other countries where tragedies happen.

Answer 8

I also feel sorry for the people killed, and injured; and for their families.

However, Virginia isn't the whole world - there are people dying everywhere.

This is the America Americans have created.

Get over yourself.



EDIT:

Persecuting you? The only nerve of mine you have touched is the one sensitive to nonsense.

You disgree with everything I have said? So, Virginia IS the only place in the world that matters? NOBODY is dying anywhere else?

Are you sure?

Check this link for news of a few more deaths (don't worry, they are not Americans, and it's not in a place that will matter to you):
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Or try this one:
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html

And we have not yet mentioned the thousands of children world-wide who die of starvation, malnutrition, or disease every single day.

Just so long as it's not in your back-yard, eh?




Seriously, get over yourself.

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Answer 9

If you are on Y!A what are you contributing anyway?

If it bothers you so much go & pray for them & don't read the questions people post about the tragedy. I mean, come on..... Do you think posting this equally senseless question here is going to stop people from using this event to state their side of the religious debate? Your intention is good, but it's all for naught. Just move on & if something bothers you just forget it. You're not going to change anything here, that's for sure.

And i agree completely with Sho-nuff! People in Iraq die every day because of us.... not just people who "deserve" to die, but the innocent people are dying too. Why is it that we only care about ourselves? Our country & our people? We should care about EVERYONE...... Death, as unfortunate as it is, is a cycle of life. Either you accept it and move on with your life or you dwell on it and turn to a religion to ease your suffering. The world keeps moving either way.

I know that sounds insensitive, but it's the truth. I feel for the people who lost their loved ones, but dwelling on this tragic news is not going to bring them back.... and religious debate about where their gods were when these people needed them.... that's not going to stop. If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to read it. Just close the quesiton & move on to another one. It's as simple as that.

Answer 10

Oh, PLEASE! The world doesn't stop because YOU are sad.
Grow up. The world doesn't revolve around ONE incident or person.
Why do you post AT ALL??? Americans are killed EVERY SINGLE DAY in Iraq... Why don't you whine about that? Jeez.

**edit**
ShoNuff's reply has EVERYTHING to do with the question. Grow up, s.hit happens, people die EVERY DAY. The deaths of these students is no more tragic than the deaths of the hundreds of thousands of kids starving all over the world.
Just because it was in the U.S. doesn't make it the be all and end all of tragedies. It's not even one of the BIGGER tragedies yesterday.
I feel for the families, but I'm not sad. I knew none of them, and can't feel pain for someone I've never known.

"Stoop"?? LOL Oh, you mean you won't ACKNOWLEDGE the thousands and thousands of people dying every day. How VERY narrow minded of you. Let me guess, you're a "christian" who is in church every time they open the door.