Wednesday, April 18, 2007

i was shocked when i heard the news. my heart juz dropped when my dad called me to his room and told me to watch CNN. the news? Virginia Tech shootings by a South Korean guy my age. it didn't really bother me that he was a South Korean (which btw isn't communist). he could be Chinese, Caucasian, Malay, Jew, Indian, he could be a muslim, buddhist, catholic, taoist, christian, and other kinds of religion for all i care. the fact is that he actually took a gun and killed some 32 of his sch mates (32 at last count since i watched the news again this morning, CNN is having a field day because of this story).

they still couldn't figure out his motive for killing so far. everything boils down to speculation. everyone CNN interviewed said that the killer, whose name was Cho Seung Hui, was a loner. and his professors in Virginia Tech Uni said that the plays he came up with reflected a troubled mind. all these signs were apparent for some time now. why didn't someone go forth and reach out to this hurtful soul? y was he left to wallow in angst and pain? koreans called him the 1.5 generation, i.e. he was uprooted from his homeland mid life and brought to a foreign place to grow up. could that be a reason for it? these are juz some of the possible reasons for his thoughts and motive for killing his school mates.

but what pisses me off most is that the bloody American Administration did not heed the lessons from the Columbine High School Shootings. you would have thought that they would have enough brains by then to scrap the Second Amendment. the Second Amendment btw is "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." which brainless fools would allow ANYBODY to keep and bear arms??? i mean seriously! regulate the use of arms. allow law enforcements, security, the military to own the arms, and the use of the arms be kept in strict check by those agencies! who the f**k allows any Tom, Dick or Harry, Mary, Sally and any idiot on the street who more often then not has no sense of decency and brains to have self control over who to pull the trigger on?? tell me.

i think the Americans deserve it all along. my heart does go out to the people who have perished under the unstable and sad mind of Cho. but i believe something good will come out of it. seriously. scrap the Second Amendment. it is not worth having guns on the streets, where anyone has the power to take a life. the gun never was an evil object. it is people who have the propensity to be evil. give them a life-ending mechanism, and the possibility for more people dying would increase. take a leaf out of Singapore's book. prohibit arms on the streets. it is juz plain stupidity. unless you want another Virginia Tech or Columbine High School incident to occur again.

do you want your kids to go to sch feeling unsafe? do you want to live ur lives in constant fear that a bullet is all it takes to end it? as much as i want to meet my Father soon, i believe we have the power to stop this mindlessness.

it is better to lose a whole arms economy. i know that the arms trade is a booming business that rakes in millions of dollars every year. it is lucrative. it puts more money in the pockets of those rich fat bastards. but it is thanks to them that people are dying. better to lose millions of dollars then to lose even one life to irrationality. the blood shed this morning (American time) is on everybodies hands. unless we all come together to agree to limit the common people's use of firearms, we will ALWAYS live in fear. we are no longer a single community, but a global community. so please. scrap the bloody 2nd Amendment.

and Father, i just ask that u stay by the side of those who are undergoing grief and pain from the killings. may ur peace overtake them, and let them know that those who died are in a better world, right where you are. may more people turn to u in these times and say u are Lord. i find it hard to rejoice now, but i am called to rejoice in times of sadness. i hope i can do it. i hope i can. all this i ask in my Lord's name.

and sorry for the 'all over the place' rambling. i juz ramble without structuring my thoughts when it comes to these things. hope i wun do it for my exams. i will surely fail if i write like i did.

Speakth at... 9:41 AM

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