The Virginia Tech Tragedy screams "Wake Up"
The [tag]Virginia Tech Massacre[/tag] is a tragedy that exposes some of the real failings of the state of our society today. A day after the [tag]deadliest shooting spree[/tag] in US history, it is all people are talking about it. Yet with all the talk, are the real questions being asked? The desensitization of our society is so extreme, that it takes the killing of "innocent" students on a suburban campus to get us talking about violence. The hundreds dying daily in Iraq, the thousands being killed in Darfur and other African nations, none of that serves to remind us that we have a problem with violence? In a time when the US Army is putting weapons in the hands of criminals because of low army enrollment, what kind of society can we expect, if not one where people believe that they are entitled to take a gun into their hands? And why is no one talking about the real issue - the lack of effective [tag]gun control laws[/tag]? If this country was not so obsessed with violence and guns, it would not make it so easy for a student who is barely allowed to get into bars to get their hands on the kind of weapon that allows a lone gunman to mow down 30 people before getting stopped. I have heard a parade of psychiatrists talking about what could have motivated this killer, and what should have been detected. But the fact is that no amount of effort will allow us to get into the heads of people (do we want to live in a '[tag]Minority Report[/tag]' society?). What I want to hear is a concrete plan that will prevent people from getting their hands on guns so easily. I don't care how many crazies there are in the world; if they can't get their hands of an [tag]assault weapon[/tag], they won't be able to do this much damage. And everyone is so quick to jump to conclusions and cures. I just heard Jeanine Pirro say that the National Guard, the ATF and the FBI should have been involved as soon as the first set of killings were identified. On what basis? Two people killed in a room in what looked like a domestic dispute? If you mobilize the army every time there is a domestic dispute, the army would be constantly roaming the streets of our largest cities. And what National Guard anyway? Aren't they all in Iraq thanks to our bumbling leaders? My heart bleeds, and all I hear is talk...