Musings

Virginia Tech Shootings 17th April 2007

1 Shooter

2 Guns

33 dead

leaving the town in a state of horror, shock and mourning. However, what that is even more disturbing that in the annals of history, this wasn't the first shooting that has occurred on Campus nor will it be the last. In 1966 at the University of Texas, Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire, killing 16 people before he was gunned down by police. In 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High Massacre.

Maybe, instead of focusing on the race, ethnicity or the personality quirks of the individual, it is time to seriously take stock of what is happening around us and to consider the system that has left some behind and pushed others over the brink.