Okay I'd like to say I knew nothing about this untill Tuesday!
Well the thing that strikes me the most about this event is that people seem to think it's the first time this has ever happened!
Some notable ones are:
Columbine High School Massacre:
Where - Littleton, Colorado
When - April 20th, 2002
Fatalities - 15
Beslan School Hostage Crisis:
Where - Beslan, Russia
When - September 1st, 2004
Fatalities - 396
So, yeah as you can see; not the first!
I feel that the Beslan one is the worst by far, they were little kids tbh, and THREE-HUNDRED-AND-NINE people were killed!
The one in Columbine, was triggered by jocks bullying people prone to depression.
Anyway, this is going to be the last, and my God, after what 40-or-so shootings (and they're just famous ones(!)) You would've thought that goverments would ensure that nothing like this forty tradgedys could ever happen again right? Well - thats further from the truth, in television, films and music, they all encourage bullying to a certain extent, If you can beat someone up, surely the person is driven by such unnatural rage that they could kill somebody!
Plus people could be suprised when they bully someone of unstable mind with mental illness such as Clinical Depression or Scitzophrenia, just to name two.
If anyone is to blame really... we all are, who can deny they've felt like murdering someone, hated a certain type of people (e.g., race or beliefs)? I think we all are guilty of racism to a certain extent...
Just a note to let you think about; how can we abolish crime, if we unbeknownst to us are commiting crimes each and everyday...?
Such as:
Littering, theft, racism, predudice...