Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Shootouts in Virginia Tech

latest news: about 33 were killed in the university of Virginia Tech today. Some of whom were students, obviously. Makes me thankful to live in a country like Singapore where arms cannot be purchased by the public. makes me feel a whole lot safer, and thankful. The US is obviously really big on having freedom of rights, freedom of speech, freedom of everything(short of growing a beard and looking like Osama i suppose). But the freedom to own arms, is a bane, a curse they brought upon themselves that has caused so much pain(honestly i don't see any good in it AT ALL) and which will continue to wreak havoc. Isn't it apparent already?
First they had the 1966 shootout in the university of texas where 16 were killed, then again in 1991 where another 23 were shot in, wow, texas again. Maybe thats why the good ol' texan Bush is so pro-arms, these texans seem violent.
ok, i obviously don't mean that. but why continue having something that serves no real purpose but has always, is always and will continue to always cause damage and a loss of lives. I honestly don't understand. If anything, i would say the lives of these innocent students and other civilians don't matter.

the US govt. has built a reputation of taking too extreme an action, too late, like in 911. but atleast, better late than never. sadly though, how they aren't really bothered bout preventing the future loss of lives, but is at this moment supposedly "saving" the lives of others, far far from home.

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