areyou, AMERICANS, even bothered by the VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE?

Question

I mean, this isn't the first time it happened in your country. Shouldn't bullying and discriminating in your country have been lessened by now? (especially among students)

Or do you deny being responsible for such incidents

(not in accusing note but rather of curiosity, why such a country as yours, a first world, has these incidents)

SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE SAFEST AND SECURE PLACES for an INDIVIDUAL

Answer 1

First giving your questions tone and wording I am VERY upset. And yes absolutley we as Americans are very bothered by the events that happened at VT. But as for bullying and discrimination in our schools, yes it is way out of control. My 6 y/o is in counsiling as we speak because of a bully. WE had to change her class to get her out of the abuse. Now we are having to find out the hard way what bullying can do to some children. I am a firm believer bullying starts at grade K and needs to be stopped there. I believe every student needs to wear uniforms to start every child as an equal. Because you know every school has their "clicks" and if you don't have the certain clothes than you are not "cool". So uniforms should be a law. If kids want to express themselves then give them a piece of paper and tell them to draw.

Answer 2

are YOU or do you just want o point a finger at the USA? violence is everywhere moron not just here... well lets see how bout the recent killing of 54 policemen in Chattisgarh , thats not the USA or what about two incidents in late November 2006 in which 13 persons were in the commercial center of Mugatwa in eastern Rwanda. Within hours, residents of a nearby village inhabited by genocide survivors killed eight Mugatwa residents who apparently had played no part in the murder. The victims included children aged three, six, eight and 13, as well as two women and a 70-year-old man. THATS NOT USA either and what about this speaking of schools:
It was the first day of school for children in the southern Russian town of Beslan. As children and their parents arrived, more than 30 armed terrorists stormed the area and forced more than 1,000 defenseless children and parents into the gym. They were held captive inside the stifling hot building, with no food or water, for 62 hours before Russian soldiers stormed the school. The terrorists set off bombs and as the madness ensued, the roof collapsed, killing hundreds. Get off the USA what are YOU doing for humanity anywhere besides pointing a finger at a country that helps every other stinking nothing country and sacrifices our young soldiers SO YOU CAN have the freedom to use the internet and ask a question like you are asking.. and lastly the a s s hole killer was a Korean not an American. get off yer a s s and change things with solutions NOT finger pointing I love my country the USA and maybe my government is sh i t t y but i have the FREEDOM to say that OUT LOUD ... what freedom have YOU GOT? and if you DO have freedom it probably was we Americans WHO SECURED IT FOR YOUR COWARDLY A S S E S with either OUR AMERICAN DOLLARS or our children's American BLOOD so... SHUT THE F U C K UP !

Answer 3

ignorant question. Not the first time? As if the US is only place bad things happen. Thousands of people all over the world die each day from bombs and killings. What is the difference between a religious fanatic and a dresses guy kid. You mentions 1st world nation, that is probably why it happens. In the US kids are not controlled and in a lot of cause do what ever they want. They have play such games like Grand Theft Auto which encourages rape drugs and murder. I am not huge anti game person, because i play halo etc, but there are limits to everything.

Answer 4

As a foreigner seeing where there are problems in America's schools, I agree, there is much needed to be accomplished.

Students offering signs of mental instability will need to be looked at more carefully.

America is (supposedly) the land of opportunity, and now the opportunity presents itself for employing more highly trained people with skills that will be able to detect where a possibility of students may go off the deep end, and address that time bomb before it's too late.

This will happen, I have every confidence that this latest incident will see some sorely needed changes taking place.

We've gotten really lax with many issues, we've focused too much on downsizing and doing away with people on jobs...maybe it's time the pendulum swings in the other direction.

Too much of what goes these days has a lot to do with nobody minding the candy store.

This will change.

This must change.

Answer 5

I'm not American and even I'm bothered by it. Of course everyone would be disturbed- lives ended because a guy went crazy. I can't seem to stop thinking that if only gun laws changed... Americans have these incidents because these days, practically EVERYTHING has some sort of violence in it. Movies, songs, tv shows, games, etc... It sort of gets etched into our brains. I suppose that some people actually get bored of killing people in games and want to try real life, and this makes them crave more. Such examples would be the Columbine High School Massacre, where Eric and Dylan were fans of the game "Doom" when they decided to start what would be one of the most dreadful incidents in US history.

Answer 6

Yes I am appalled and saddened by that slaughter of innocents.

And the fact that they died despite the so called “Home Land Security” is very disturbing. One would think after so many school shootings they would provide the security to prevent anyone from entering the school with a weapon.
But you see we have morons in charge now days in the states. Remember the Katrina Hurricane disaster? They bungled that disaster as well.

As for the issue of firearms, that shooter didn’t give a hoot about the gun laws, no gun law could have stopped him if he was dead set on doing that. For about anywhere on earth you can get a gun; legal or not.
But again here the “system” blew it for he was found mentally deranged and should never been able to buy a gun.
Bottom line is if people had done their job this would never had happened.
My heart felt sympathy goes out to all who died and effected by this tragedy.

Answer 7

To answer your initial question.... I don't believe most Americans were bothered by this. I live in NM, and it's been kind of like so what. It hit hard with me because I'm originially from VA. I toured VT when I was a senior in HS. But for the average NMican ... no it didn't happen here so not many showed up at the candlelight vigil that was held here last Thursday evening. A couple of Hokie alumni were there and trying to get their fight song going. I repeated it to try to carry it over. But no one else did. It was almost like the people who did show either didn't have anything else better to do... or they just wanted to say that they showed.

As far as bullying and discriminating... that's human nature. And it'll never get fully controlled because our children in today's society are anything but controlled. Schools are suppose to be safe.... but there's bad apples in every bucket.

Answer 8

First, massacres happen in every country. Its true that it happens a lot here in the US at universities. Many people are questioning the same thing you are (perhaps more respectfully than you).
The reasons according to my Sociology professor and the opinion of 100 other students in the class, was that a) violence is publicized a lot on TV, movies, etc. b) guns are widely available and c) perhaps the most important, is that people here are very very pressured and tense. Things in public happen very orderly and meticulously, people have to behave in a certain way all day long, all the pressure or anger people have inside of them is not released semi-violently like in many underdeveloped countries and as a consequence one person in millions and millions, every now and then explodes.

Remeber that destruction (of humans, in this case) leads to creation (of new laws or regulations) and vice versa..

Answer 9

What bothers me is that the shooter appeared to have had a mental illness his whole life. He was ordered by the courts to go to a mental ward, where they released him. No further attempts were made to get him treated. Then he proceeded to stalk 2 female students. Then he buys two handguns and passes the background check. You would think the mental ward and the charges of the stalking would've made it harder for him to obtain the weapons.
Everyone gets teased, that's a fact of life. Not everyone goes off and shoots everyone else. He had a mental illness that made it worse. I wonder if this happens in other countries as well.

Answer 10

Of course Americans are bothered by it! This is our home and we don't like people F'n it up! If more people had guns then idiots like the one that whent on a rampage would most likly think twice about doing that. Anyone would. Attackers are so successful in their attacks because they know the person they are going after won't have firepower with them. If LAWFUL citizens carried a piece with them then crime would go down 10 fold. Everyone needs to see that acts like this are a direct attack on our 2nd amendment. If you don't know what that is then look it up. Yes Americans have rights and it's time we people start using them! When are we going to learn that the government is NOT going to protect us? WE must do it on our own if we want to be safe.