Massacre at Virginia Tech
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We are in shock over yesterday’s senseless killings at Virginia Tech and our hearts are heavy with grief for the victims and their families and loved ones. We are a peaceful and trusting society unable to comprehend the what and why, yet we want to understand. It is in our nature to make some sense of it. Yet there is no making sense of it. It is just that; senseless.
So we grieve and we pray. And we try to understand, for without understanding we cannot hope to find closure. But for now we grieve for the families mourning their supreme loss.
Anger will follow and some will try to place blame, another part of our nature. But we must remember that this was a random, unpredictable act.
I’m stunned about what happened at Virginia Tech. I want to say something profound or moving or helpful, but I just don’t have the words.
Doug
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My love and prayers go to all families, as yesterday was not a good day and the days ahead will not get easier. I will keep all in my prayers.
I would feel much safer going to school today at a police academy, West Point, the Citadel, VMI, or anywhere else victims would be able to fight back, which means they would be much less likely to be victims.
However, that doesn't make much difference to the families of more than thirty dead students. There will be time to look at security policies on every campus, but now isn't that time.
We do seem bent on placing blame. Somebody must hang. And gun control advocates are asserting that had we outlawed all guns this would not have happened.
We pray for the victims and we pray for their families and friends. At this moment, comments for/against 'gun control' are obscene.
Was this psychopath on prescription drugs? SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) drugs?
Those Columbine killers were on SSRI drugs and so was Kip Kinkel (shot 27 classmates at Thurston High in May 1998).
Prozac and its related drugs can sometimes cause paranoid delusional behavior which leads to homicide and suicide. You have been warned. Psychotropic drugs can be unpredictable,...and deadly.
I graduated from Virginia Tech in 2004 and hearing all the news casts and seeing all of the images on TV really hits home. I lived on that campus and have been in those class rooms and dorms- it's really hard not to be emotionally distraught by all of this. My thoughts and prayers are with every single person on the campus and all of the families and friends and alumni that were affected by this horrible event. Virginia Tech is one of the safest places that I've ever lived- I never locked a door in all of my 4 years there. It's one of the most beautful places that I've ever seen and I hope to god that people see past this isolated incident and still remember that Virginia Tech is still a wonderful and safe place filled.
- Lesley
This story of a professor who blocked the door with his body so his students could escape out the window caught my attention.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152812105&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
In every tragedy, there are heros. God bless him and his family.
The nation is stunned. And I hope the finger pointing subsides quickly. What happened is no one's fault, it's just a terribly sad event. We will keep the families in our prayers.
Sorry Stephan, you are wrong. There is plenty of blame to go around, first the school should have had better communication with its students and notified the ones an the way to the school not to come. And what about not locking down after the first shooting? And what about the police hiding behind trees instead of rushing the building and stopping the shooter? We should have learned after Columbine.