WTF?

As if you didn't know by now, the tragedy at Virginia Tech now has a name and a face to hold responsible. And of course it's a fellow South Korean. I guess I can use this to my advantage at work when people stress me out. "Don't mess with me, or I'll just go off the deep end and start shooting people." Just kidding.

On a serious note, why do these people have to kill other people and then kill themselves. Why don't they skip that middle step and just off themselves first? Well according to some psychologists it's because they want to make a mark in the world. One of those, "If I won't amount to something in life, they will certainly remember me in death." Of course, there's also the argument that there are just a long list of grievances, or insults to the person and they finally can't take anymore. That's what they said about those kids in Columbine.

I personally think that the media's 24/7 coverage of these tragedies helps perpetuate other instances. They said after Columbine, there were many more copycat plans discovered though, thankfully, not carried out. They even said that the story last September of a young Asian man shooting people at a Montreal college may have been an inspiration for the troubled young man that committed those heinous killings yesterday. Either way, you can't turn on the news or open a paper, or magazine and not see stories of violent crime, complete with sound and pictures. Maybe if it wasn't glorified by the news outlets, people wouldn't get it into their heads that it's a good idea to do these things, that they will be forever immortalized in magazines, books, movies, etc. It has to stop.

Praying for the victims and families at VT at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.