I have nothing new to say about this Virginia Tech travesty. It’s shocking to see someone so young with so much anger inside. WTF? Seriously, how bad could his life have truly been? Hard working parents, a chance at a new life in America, going to a good college? Dude. Seriously. It’s situations like these that make me want to close the blinds, triple lock the doors and hide. Make me want to homeschool – through college. Make me want to toss my television, computer and radio out the window. I don’t think there is any possible way we will ever truly, completely understand what this young man was thinking; he was obviously more disturbed than anyone could help. Most unfortunate were the innocents that he took with him. I have to say, though, that when something like this happens I am almost happy when the shooter kills himself. I just wish he had done it before shooting people who weren’t ready to go. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims. What a horrible thing to happen. And a manifesto? What a piece of crap. You can blame money or girls or video games or whatever the hell you want, but there is no one to blame but yourself, you jackass.
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But, I can’t lock the doors, or toss the computer (duh, how would I blog?) or the television (duh, who would babysit my kids?). I can have hope. I can teach my kids right from wrong, how to have compassion, how to treat people and how to live with hope and faith and honesty and sensitivity and warmth and love and intelligence. But I can’t teach them to not be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that scares the crap out of me. But I can hug them a little tighter tonight and I can try harder to enjoy every minute, even those bratty ones and especially those ones when I “should” be doing chores but they want my attention. I can do what I can to live each day and make it count. I can try to make a difference and I can teach my boys to do the same. I can’t give those poor families their loved ones back, but I can sure try to make sure their lives weren’t for nothing.
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It\'s such a horrible thing when people\'s lives are taken in this manner. I agree it\'s scary to think that our kids could be at the wrong place at the wrong time and also be victims of crime. All we can do is teach them well and do our best to make sure they\'re not the ones commiting these kind of atrocities. It seems that this guy had red flags all around him and although some steps were taken to help him, there didn\'t seem to be any follow through. I\'m sure we\'ll find out more in coming days, but my heart goes out to everyone touched by these events too.
It’s such a horrible thing when people’s lives are taken in this manner. I agree it’s scary to think that our kids could be at the wrong place at the wrong time and also be victims of crime. All we can do is teach them well and do our best to make sure they’re not the ones commiting these kind of atrocities. It seems that this guy had red flags all around him and although some steps were taken to help him, there didn’t seem to be any follow through. I’m sure we’ll find out more in coming days, but my heart goes out to everyone touched by these events too.