I’ve about had it with so-called “people” nowadays.
A massacre in Virginia, that is being picked apart by the media (as if it will help any). Raise your hand if you didn’t think that the shooter a) was a loner and b) bought a gun legally. Of course. Also? School officials weren’t prepared. How the fuck do you prepare for something like that? That’s like preparing for drunk drivers on the freeway. The only way to be 100% sure you avoid them is to stay home.
Meanwhile, halfway around the globe, almost 160 people were killed in a marketplace in Baghdad. Probably killed by a loner who bought his gun legally. No, wait, “islamic extremist” is the term we prefer in Baghdad (remember when they were all “saddam loyalists?” I think that was before we accomplished our mission). The media won’t bother picking this one apart because it happened the other day and will likely happen again before the week is up. It hasn’t even bubbled to the front page of CNN yet because they are too busy talk about American Idol.
Are these hundreds of people any less valuable, any less special?
I hate the world sometimes.
(oh, news flash – I was also a loner, once upon a time. Still am, some days.)
The VT thing is sad, there’s no way around that.
The weird thing that sticks out in my mind is why weren’t there locks on the doors to the classrooms? Even most grade schools have locks on the doors. In fact I remember in my high school that after class started the door was shut and locked and you had to knock to get in. That still doesn’t prevent some looney from shooting at students outside (isn’t that what happened in Toronto?) but I think a policy like that would have saved a lot of the students at VT.
The media… Don’t get me started.
Our classroom doors are never locked. For safety reasons. I believe all the doors to the halls only lock with a key; they don’t have a flip-lock.
Also, only a few seconds to shoot the lock off.
Actually there was an article somewhere that expressed a very similar sentiment. What happened here, is actually happening at the University of Bagdad almost DAILY.
But as Laura Bush points out, it is that one “pesky” bombing a day that has the people of this country disheartened, and that it isn’t all that bad. Yeah sure, it isn’t that bad to have one bomb a day… when you are safely watching it 1/2 a world away.
I’m still a loner. I prefer to be quiet than be forced to make polite, trite conversation with people in which I have no interest.
I was watching a ‘news’ program last week, and the interviewer was in a classroom at U of Bagdad (or something) and the discussion turned to how desensitized the students all are, because during the taping bombs start going off outside, and NO ONE FLINCHES. Like it’s not there. It’s part of their life. That’s why no one cares. Here, we’re all caught up in PC love, and we can’t imagine how something like this can happen. It’s because people don’t give a rat’s ass about each other and the majority of relationships are superficial. People hide their lives because they don’t want other people to judge them. It’s sad.