We have all seen the news, we have all read the lord knows how many blogs about it, and we are probably all fed up of reading/seeing/hearing about it.
The shootings in America, another episode in the wrangle of the gun laws, another mass killing spree, another gunman in the history books. Eight years after the worst high school massacre in columbine where 15 students died. This one surpasses that with a toll of at least thirty (dependant upon which news you read/watch) the question is not why did he do this, I am sure they will have a dozen psychologists/Psychiatrists picking apart his home life and his relationships and telling you how he came to do what he did.
The question is how, how did he manage to gun down two people and then two hours later massacre another 30? Why was the campus not closed? Why was he not being sought? Why were there not already police there?
The excuse it appeared to be a domestic, does not hold water folks. Have you learned nothing over these past eight to ten years? You have a volatile situation where an obviously dangerous, disturbed perpetrator has a gun or two, on a student campus, and you dont close it down?
It appears to be a domestic, what you knew that for certain? Have you become so innured to this kind of thing that 'it appears to be a domestic' is treated in the same way as oh I seem to have cut my finger?
Has the fact that others have killed their families and then go on to murder in a mass frenzie as the two teenagers did eight yers ago in Columbine, not entered the equation at all? Did you learn nothing from that?
The problem is will the questions be answered? The survivors of this weeks murders are asking them, but are the authorities asking them?
In my opinion this killing spree could have been prevented, less people would have died, less parents would now be mourning, if the authorities had looked to the lessons of the past instead of shrugging it off as 'Only a domestic'
2007-04-17 @ 09:44