How do we stop tragedies like the killings at Virginia Tech?

Answer 1

Ah...and so the next gun control debate begins....

Answer 2

There is definitely something very wrong with the world today and it is being shown through these vicious acts of violence. Mothers are killing their children more now than i've ever heard. That has chilled me to the bone more than anything. Now this. I have a 15 month old daughter and I'm so scared raising her in this world. People have lost their minds. Everyone is filled with hatred. No one cares about anyone anymore. It's all about me, me, me.

I hope that people can stop for a moment and really realize what's going on and we all have a role in it. When we see the people on the street who look like they're crazy or just weird, we shun them and that exacerbates the problem. I have made a conscious decision to smile more at people. It's small but I think it can be positive. Nobody gives eye contact anymore and people feel boxed in like they're alone in the world. If we can start bringing the wall down a bit and try to show compassion to people, maybe we may be able to prevent this in the future.

I hope we can all learn from this and realize that we also need to make changes within ourselves so that we can be positive influences on the world.

Answer 3

I trust you in this element. the human beings dying in Iraq are merely as tragic because of the fact the 32 deaths in VT. extra tragic are all the different deaths that are actually not reported because of the fact they do no longer impression usa or are actually not of pastime to the terrific information conglomerates. do no longer fall for the previous argument that if there have been no weapons that there may well be no gun deaths. i do no longer even own a handgun and that i understand this. you does not be waiting to even argue that element if he had used a organic gasoline leak to explode the completed development or a bomb strapped to his physique. in actuality that this guy grew to become right into a finished mess and mandatory help. i'm no longer confident that there may well be lots that could have been executed. That being reported...what you have reported might desire to be construed by using the households and pals of 32 gunshot victims in Virginia Tech as a great fat slap interior the face. Take the suggestions you spot and hear referred to as that's and please do no longer prefer to insult the harmless. it extremely is extremely a undeniable shame.

Answer 4

Put ourselves in other people's shoes. We have a tendency to be emotionally, and psychologically detached from the feelings of others. If you see a kid sitting alone in the cafeteria, invite him or her over, or engage them in conversation, because we've all been there before. We've all been the new kid in school, or the new guy at the office, and sometimes it's hard to make friends. It's so easy for us to just say, "He'll find friends eventually", but sometimes that's not the case. I'm by no means trying to justify the shooter's actions, but if we can just reach out to people a little more, i'm sure that we can make it so that these types of tragedies never happen again.

Answer 5

There really is no way to stop it. Either money or human rights will get in the way of ever stopping this. The school cannot afford to have 1 security guard per student, nor could they afford to put 1 metal detector in every door of every campus building. The thing would go off whenever someone walked through the detector with a cell phone...which is every college student. Anyone who walks through a metal detector and it alarms must be frisked. This is going to anger alot of students and take away from their privacy.

The only thing people can do is just make the best of life and try to get along with as many people as they can. The student that did the shooting suffered from mental illness and had little friends. He really had no one to turn to that could talk him out of doing what he did.

You cannot impose laws to ban all guns. It simply just won't happen. Guns will always be on the street. Even if they do get all guns off the street, people make guns out of cell phones, remote controls, and flashlights. Technology is our biggest threat as humans.

Answer 6

Maybe we should start caring more for our neighbors. Although, I don't justify killing, one has to wonder what pushes people to that point. The point when they no longer care about their lives or the lives of those around them. We all know the world can seem very cruel at times. Some people can handle the pressure and some cannot. When you have a support network, the obstacles of "life" are easier to "hurdle". When you are alone to deal with these obstacles it can be hard. Students are among the largest number of those committing suicide. The pressure to succeed can be draining. What was this guy dealing with? It's easy to say "we" knew something was wrong after the fact. But, what did you do then. His own roommates said they rarely spoke to him. Instead of trying to take him out to drink, let him know you are there for him and try to help. He had no girlfriend, and who knows what his relationship was with his parents. How was he doing in school? Everyone's concerned when something happens, but no one seemed to go out of there way to help him before this incident. My heart truly goes out those who lost family. I (from experience)know how it feels to lose family tragically. But we as a people need to stop being so selfish and try to help those in need. When people are on the line between going "postal" and seeking help, words of wisdom can go a long way. Think about it.

Answer 7

Sorry to say it, but that's never gonna stop. There can be higher security and all that, but things like this are always going to happen and some times they can't be stopped. I've heard speculations that the campus should have been shutdown after the first shooting, but there are 70 buildings on that campus and tons of people coming in and out of them every day, so it would be very difficult to lock them all down.

Answer 8

I don't have the answer as to how to stop such tragedies, but my heart hurts for everyone who has any connection to this tragedy. I just can't imagine what those who were on campus are going through, and what the families and friends of those who have been taken are going through. I pray for them, and I pray for the recovery of those who were injured. My thoughts are with them all. It really is a national tragedy.

Answer 9

You know Aristotle, I find it so strange that people will come out of the woodwork for the media, and tell them that this person was acting very strange, was a loner, etc., etc., One
of his teachers from last year was one of them. If they saw all this before, why did they not report it, maybe have him evaluated ? Why wait for something like this to happen ?
He didn't just snap, his resentment was building for a long time.
People need to take a look around them and see what is going on! Not wait until the last second and then say I knew it !

Answer 10

I think it all begins with teaching our children that they are NOT the center of the universe, and their feelings are NOT more important than others' feelings. Nor are their needs greater. I think that from this basic thought stems all sorts of negative behavior, that leads to robberies, murders, divorces, and the like. Have some feelings for the other person, not just yourself, and don't push the fact that you MUST be noticed and heard and obeyed above all others.

I see this crap all of the time, in different forms.

Answer 11

It seems everything we read about him shows that he was rather obviously disturbed, but no one seems to have been able to do anything about it.

This probably is because we have an atmosphere of everyone being afraid to be judgmental, wanting instead to go along and get along, and accept anything done by anyone, as long as they don't cross the line and call someone a 'nappy headed ho'.

Perhaps we need to re-think our tolerance, and start thinking about increasing our chances of survival by tolerating nothing, maybe we need to either promote that which is good, or condemn that which is not good, but let's stop hiding behind the concept of "tolerance" as a means to evade making a moral evaluation.

We've got a drug problem in this country. The problem is that we have laws against it, but we tolerate the influence of drugs in our society in movies, books, humor, and by not seriously dealing with enforcement. We need to either give up this illusion of a fight against it, or get behind it totally and stop tolerating it.

We tolerate rap music. Sure, it glorifies the worst any society ever had to offer, but it's just "art", and you don't have to listen, so we tolerate that. Did I say "tolerate"? No, we give them seats of honor at awards dinners for music and movies.

Same with racism. We need to stop tolerating racists that use accusations of racism as their weapons in their own private race war. I don't have to repeat the incidents here, they're all familiar to you.

We tolerate the news. Four years into Iraq and I have yet to see a major news story on just what our soldiers actually do over there besides drive up and down roads waiting to get killed. Why do we tolerate that? It's not like they don't have time, the front page of a major NYC daily today was a picture of Larry Birkhead. Who cares about that?

Mostly with politics. We need to stop tolerating actions of one party that we condemn in another. A frightening number of our elected representatives have been accused of irresponsible if not outright criminal behavior. Why do we tolerate such people with so much control over our future? Why do we tolerate people that think the laws they enforce on us don't apply to themselves? Why do we tolerate a governor doing 90 mph without a seatbelt, why do we tolerate Congressmen that bounce checks or molest children?

Bottom line is, we may not be able to stop such tragedies, but we could reduce them if we'd become less tolerant of things that are clearly wrong.

I think it comes down to a basic obvious truth. This shooter had a warped or nonexistence sense of right and wrong.

Who's fault is that, in a society that refuses to say there's a difference?