Why do people care about the Virginia Tech murders? There are bigger problems.?

Question

Why are people so upset about the Virginia tech killings but aren't even phased by the carnage currently happening in the Middle East? Why should I treat the 30 students any differently than the 180+ that died today from terrorist bombings in Baghdad? Why should I treat them any differently than the hundreds of US soldiers dying every year in combat? Or what about the 20 Iraqi police officers that were just executed and beheaded on film? Yeah, that’s right, I shouldn’t treat them any differently, and that’s why I don't care that much about the rampage at Virginia Tech.

I’m actually kind of glad this happened. Maybe this will wake our stupid country up and we’ll stop blaming the movies, stop blaming rap music, stop blaming violent video games, and START blaming the sophisticated & deadly weaponry that is so easily accessible. Forget gun control, it needs to be ILLEGAL to own anything but hunting rifles.

Did you know U.S. corporations produce over 250,000 9mm pistols per year? Not only was a 9mm used at VTech, but the 9mm is a favorite amongst inner-city gangs and thugs. So much of a favorite that you can hear 50cent sing about them in his rap songs! So many weapons are produced in this country that, if you can’t get one legally (which you probably pretty easily), you DEFINITELY can get one on the black market for not much more. This problem can be obviously remedied by cutting off the supply and making guns ILLEGAL once and for all! Please, lets make our streets a LOT safer and make guns illegal!

edit: For those that use the excuse “criminals will always buy their guns illegally” , I have a simple economic question: What will happen to the total supply of guns on the black market if guns are made illegal in the United Sates? Clearly, the supply will diminish. Hate to break it to you guys, but black market weapondry isnt created in some shady illegal arms factory. U.S. Manufacturers will cut their production, and prices for illegal weapons will price out most people.

Answer 1

Give your speech to the NRA and Charlton Heston as well as the proponents of the 2nd Amendment.

Answer 2

You truly show your stupidity in the way that you worded this. It's obvious that you are just wanting attention and you just want to see people's reactions. Well, good job! I notice that you got what you obviously wanted.......Making guns illegal will not stop people from killing one another......duh?! What about crime prevention? How would our law enforcement officers of ALL kinds be able to defend themselves or others? There have been "weapons" since the beginning of time, however it hasn't always been machinery. I find it absurd that you would even try to downplay the Virginia Tech massacre. Sure, our medies takes an almost weirdo pride in talking about it for days upon ends, but what do you expect? This is HISTORY! Understand?

What are you going to say next? LET'S MAKE DRUGS ILLEGAL! Oh, yeah.......that already exists and people disregard that law. Hello?! Controlling guns throug law is virtually impossible. Anyone with an inkling of intelligence can comprehend that. A far-fetched solution could be to MONITOR gun usage. Only allow certain individuals to carry them, make them go through some sort of extensive training and do a background.

Get real dude.

Answer 3

Now that you vented...that was healthy.However,I don't believe you meant that your kinda glad that happen in Virginia..your angry, and so are many other people at the crisis we have here in the U.S.A..PEOPLE just not caring anymore.It's good you have the freedom to voice your opinion in this free world.But you ask why do(should) people care what has happen in Virgina..there are us that do care, not only about this latest tragedy,but all that is going on.No single element should be taken out of the equation.What can be done...well for us poor folks not being able to have change,I really can only say, just keep the faith of God.The money does most of the talking for change of any kind in this world.Sorry to say,but true..And for those that say vote...Well I've seen years of that and this world or should I say people haven't been doing all that well for the better.The American beauty contestants have more people to choose from,then the choices for a Pres.of this country..go figure....Although you got some valid points..I haven't got a clue to the remedy..To you I say..keep smiling and give a smile to brighten another persons day.And blame can be put on many factors.But gun control will not stop anyone from finding another method to do bodily harm to others...Wouldn't you agree on that point..........

Answer 4

Your logic is twisted and immature. Even if you could take all the guns off the street, then what? Will you live in a society wherein the government has no fear of the citizenry? That is called a dictatorship. The right to bear arms is a right of freedom. It is what keeps us free in my opinion. We must deal with the society issues that cause murderers to rise up. You are doing nothing more than blaming the gun for the killings. If your perfect little world existed, Cho would have murdered them all with an axe instead.

Answer 5

The tragedy is compounded by the elimination of some of the best minds in resolving today’s problems. However it should serve as a wake-up to the necessity for understanding culture.

This young man came to America when he was in the formative years of seeking a role model. His father was a good man and gave his all in performance of his business. However to an eight-year old it may have appeared as being submissive to a higher economy.

At the same time he was exposed to the product of a permissive society that exercised individual worth and freedoms. Surely that would have created questions in his young mind that people could not understand not having been there.

The early pictures of him show eyes that are definitely awake. Yet one of his teachers or councilors said she saw or thought there were tears behind the Sunglasses.

We are in a new world requiring cultural understanding. I was married to a woman of different culture for twelve years before I realized what cultural difference was and it came about through business activities not my day-to-day interaction with the woman I loved.

The world is Global now and we have to recognize cultural is more than different language and dress.

Answer 6

Yes, I saw Bowling for Columbine, too. Although I am all for gun control and making deadly weapons such as the ones used in these shootings illegal, I do care that this happened. And I am only a little offended that you say you are "glad this happened". It isn't an issue with humanity for being touched by this tragedy, nor are we ignorant of the dealings of war. I believe that your issue would lie more within the media's hunger to produce news shows that sell commercials.

Answer 7

Tell me, how are you going to get every gun off the streets? If you can do that, then I will agree with you (in part). However, until all the bad guys who don't give a rat's *ss about the legalities of carrying and using a weapon, and who will kill just because, then I am going to keep my gun with me, in my car, in my purse, in my house, and wherever else I go. And you are one sick puppy to actually say that you are glad about 33 wonderful people dying so you could make a point. That is not just sick, dude, that's evil.

Answer 8

Question Marks...

"This didn't have to happen", Cho Seung-Hui said, after murdering thirty-two people at Virginia Tech University.

And this terrible tragedy of sons, daughters, mothers and fathers didn't have to happen, if we'd only listened.

But we never listen.

We never listen to those that are different from us- the outcasts, the lonely, the homeless, the ones that are unspoken for. We don't try to understand. We shun them and put them out of our minds because of our fear that we will become like them.

And these people become more and more lonely and alienated in their isolation.

Words like "creep", "deranged misfit" and "psycho" devalue this killer's humanity so we don't have to face how similar he is to us. Cries of "how could he have been stopped" are uttered by media quick to sensationalize and gain market share, when the words "how could he have been listened to" are never considered.

Because we don't want to listen.

We don't want to hear about loneliness and alienation when we're all so busy with our lives, making money and making friends. And the unpopular, the ones that don't fit in, the lonely ones are ignored or made fun of because we don't care to understand anything about them.

This man who clearly needed help, Cho Seung-Hui, devalued himself so much that he called himself "Question Mark".

There are more "Question Marks" out there. There are millions of them. And if we don't listen to them, they will follow the same path again and again, because people are not connecting. We are becoming more and more disconnected from each other, creating more and more "Question Marks" every day.

Most "Question Marks" don't become murderers. Some just kill themselves. Most harm no one and live just as we do, needing antidepressants to appear what we call "normal". They may be someone you know, someone you love.

This "Question Mark" was once a little boy, who cried, and smiled and loved, He wanted to fit in just like you and I. But that desire to fit in transformed itself into anger towards a society that shunned and ignored him.

How many more times will we shun and ignore the one that doesn't fit in, the one in the corner, the one that's different? When all we have to do is listen, before it's too late.

But we won't.

Thirty-two human beings who did not know Cho Seung-Hui were murdered.
They were sons, daughters, fathers and mothers, with dreams of futures that will never come and children that will never be born. The thirty-two leave behind people that love them. People that are now scarred for life by this horrible day of death.

To most of us that have not been directly involved, this tragedy will become a memory and fade like all the others that came before.

And the "Question Marks" will appear with more frequency, again and again, because we don't listen.

We never do.


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Answer 9

For better or worse we do live in a free country and a right to bear arms is a right. If a complete background check would of happen he probably wouldn't got the gun would that of stop him no,

There is just to much hate. We all just need to rid the world of as much violence as we can. I for one pray for the families of VT and that to is a right I have and earned by serving my country

Answer 10

The criminals will still have handguns, regardless of whether they're illegal or not. This kid should never have been allowed to purchase any kind of weapon. The system needs improvement, that is for sure. But we cannot take away the right to bear arms for those who are not criminally insane.