Americans love everything huge and exaggerated. Its always shopping spree..or drinking spree this one though happens to be the worst campus shooting spree in U.S. history!
Awful. At last count 32 dead (including the shooter) and 24 injured at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech campus.
When I first heard about this news on the TV, I thought it’s one of those daily news from Iraq…’Human bomber strikes again in Iraq…..bla…bla…bla but then did she say America? The U..S of A…Then what came through my mind was, “OH, not another Columbine again?”
What the hell is wrong with people these days? This is becoming a common thing every year. Ok Virginia whacked 32 poor souls…..come on Berkeley…..you can do better next year!!! Got game?
People go to Uni to further educate themselves so they can have a brighter future and possibly a better start to life, not to have to look over their shoulder in fear that somebody is going to snap and start pulling the trigger of a semi automatic glock whilst ploughing the rest of the cafeteria with an Uzi loaded with full metal jackets. (so far no report of the type of arms used)
UPDATE: The gunman in Monday’s Virginia Tech campus shootings has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a student and native of South Korea, campus police chief Wendell Flinchum said. He has been living in the US (PR) since he was 8 so he was practically an American by upbringing and surrounding. No wonder-lah! An ABK American Born Korean. So he has a problem with rich kids in Uni…..duuuhh! who doesn’t… they drive all the cool cars, get the cool friends, they have all the fun but that does not give you the right to pop em’, he’s a 4th year English Major student. I suppose they’ve erased the word ‘Moron’ from his dictionary.
What I would like to ask Mr Flinchum is that it took two hours after the first attack for the gunman to strike again killing more this time. What happened after the first shooting??? One would imagine that after such an incident one would put a curfew in the Uni??No? Or shooting of students were such a norm that no concern was alerted….were there more killings before at Virginia Tech??? I bet he would now be called Police Chief Flintstone for his bumbling heroism…the knincumpoop! I would send him to Iraq for his efforts or better still, send him to Ijok for the by-elections.
Appropriate. According to White House press secretary Dana Perino, the El Presidente George ‘Dubya’ Bush “was horrified and his immediate reaction was one of deep concern for the families of the victims, the victims themselves, the students, the professors and all the people of Virginia who have dealt with this shocking incident. His thoughts and prayers are with them.” I suppose the White House have these answers as standard except for a few strategic words added on. It just doesn’t sound sincere if u ask me. Heck, I’m sure he’ll be thinking,”Damn! They’re gonna take my guns away now!! @#$%# Koreans!”
Not so appropriate? “The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” Perino said. “Certainly, bringing a gun into a school dormitory and shooting … is against the law and something someone should be held accountable for.” All the laws were followed, the weapon was legal, only shoot your enemy….in his eyes I suppose all of them were the enemy. The law doesn’t say ‘If you start a massacre, please don’t kill yourself for you should go on trial for long and painful punishment.’ But then again Dubya ‘is’ from Texas, a redneck and owns a few thousand acres of ranch. Its part of their culture to carry a gun I suppose just like a Scottish with his kilt, a Punjabi man with his turban and crooked knife, a commuter with his/her iPod, a woman with her lipstick or a traffic police officer with the latest handphone that costs at least his 2 months salary etc.
Question! I wonder… if the shooter had been a muslim, do you think the Bush administration would have been so quick to defend his right to bear arms…? Or would the media try their best to connect the shooter to Al Qaeda…in six degrees of separation kinda scenario??? Cho Seung Hui… the shooter – favourite food…. Kimchi- Korean delicacy – Korean Brand Samsung – makes handphone - Ben Laden….. Aha!! Ben Laden uses a samsung handphone… see I told’ya they were connected… tadaaa!!!
Well, OK: The purchases were legit, according to this ABC report -- the shooter did have the right, as a resident alien, to purchase firearms, and he did so at a local gun shop. That’s the thing, the gun laws of America (depending in which state of course) is so relax that its so much easier to legally buy a gun than ......say….abortion???
I would be a little suspicious if a man comes up to my gun shop and says give me 3 dozen boxes of bullets of these…4 dozens of those….or if a young looking bespectacled Korean guy comes in and asks for a Surface to Air model STA 1156-E Rocket Launcher but then again the Americans are so naïve. Remember when one of those guys of 9-11 disaster. At the flying academy he actually stressed many many many times to the instructor that ,” I just want to learn how to turn the aircraft!!”. He wasn’t interested in the take-off, landing or any other part of the flying process…..just turning the nose to a particular direction. Its like if a customer of a Bank keeps asking for the twentieth time, what time do you top-up the ATM machine and how much can it fill at maximum or when your 5 year old daughter out of a sudden asks,’ You never liked that crystal vase on the coffee table, right?kan?kan Mama?’
Wouldn’t you feel a wee bit suspicious?
So what went wrong?
Oh I don’t think there’s even the slightest chance that this will lead to a serious discussion on whether guns are too easy to get hold of in this country, or in some parts of this country. Any minute now, I’m sure somewhere somehow someone will begin to attack Virginia Tech for having a policy that forbids students to carry firearms on campus. All discussion after that will focus on one question and one question only: whether this and other similar incidents could be prevented if as many law-abiding citizens as humanly possible carried concealed weapons everywhere and if it were legal to have a gun in churches, schools, workplaces and virtually every other location in America. And then what? Nothing will change. And there'll be more massacres. Or will it be …Woi! You think you got spetol u so great ah??? I oso got maaa….u shoot I shoot…u think I takut ka?!!
Here's what I think: Law-abiding citizens packing heat sometimes do prevent horrors like this, or minimize the number of innocent victims. But the gun culture that puts weapons in the hands of those law-abiding citizens is the same gun culture that makes it too freakin’ easy for sickos and psychopaths to arm themselves for slaughter.
Perhaps……..
1.Perhaps they should have special program to check on their citizens’ mental being.....especially the seller’s
2.Perhaps mental examination compulsory for gun application candidates……if they look a little nerdish, extreemish, a bit of a fruitcake or if they come in with a clown suit…..Don’t sell em!! If it’s their first time buying a weapon and orders a Bazooka…..Don’t sell em!!! If they come in with their mommy….forget about it!!! Ask him to join the Navy….that’ll put some hair on his chest
3.Perhaps they should have regular special courses to relieve stress…. Like bunjee jumping with the bunjee cord tied to the Ò@!!$
4.Perhaps companies should offer to stressed out staff a weeks’ paid holiday shopping in Milan….and for the employers pls refer to No. 3
5.Perhaps if you force your kids to aim for 15As in SPM at the same time bombard them with ballet, golf lessons, Tae Kwan Do, equestrian, classic Indian Dance lessons with Ramli since primary school then is there a chance that your kid be another case like to the Korean shooter due to stress and lack of interaction….. to think of it, how many hours does a child… say the age of 10 above have time for themselves after the school, homework, tution, chores ??? We work from 9-5. Their hours are much longer….just like housewives. By the time they enter Uni, they’re all stressed out ready to retire.
So many perhaps but no right answer…human will always be human…to err is human! The planet has survived millions and millions of years from amoebas to dinosaurs to all sorts of animals….but since 1000 years ago, we human have left the planet with nothing but cancer at the final stage…imagine just 1000 years and we’ve destroyed the planet we cling our very lives to. Gives new meaning to ‘Don’t shit where you eat!!’ don’t it?? Now that’s another subject……….
Welcome to paradise....
