Tragedy at Virginia Tech!!!

[Vic Romano]

I can't believe this. Forget the rapture, we're gonna' destroy ourselves before anything else has the chance. May God bless those poor families. Our prayers go out to all of them at this very dark time.

 

[abiraniriba]

sad

The tragedy at VA Tech was hearbreaking I only wish that the next time someone at a school writes things like this young man did, he gets the counselling he needs.

Special to Vic: No one knows the day or the hour when the Lord will come, so I wouldn't bet on us killing each other off before the rapture happens.

 

[redBoobergurl]

So there was a bomb threat and evacuation at the largest university in my state today. So sad that someone is trying to play off of people's fears, it's just a hoax and it's sick.

I'm praying for all those affected at Virginia Tech.

 

[Teheheman]

It is a big tragedy, and I don't blame anybody but this schmuck. Sure, you can blame the school because they didn't catch this and warn the people, but considering that some people were in class, and probably wouldn't have had access to their cellphones(some classes have rules against cellphones going off during class) and some people wouldn't have had access to the e-mails. It went so fast that no matter how fast they could've gotten it out, that this may have been happened anyways. I don't blame the parents because these parents could have been parents of the year and he could've acted fine to them. They wouldn't have known anything was wrong. I don't blame police for not reading the notes and thinking something was wrong sooner because those notes weren't found by anybody til after it happened. I don't even blame the girlfriend who left him because if we all went crazy everytime somebody broke up with us, we wouldn't have anybody left alive. I'm blaming him, he had issues, they said that guns were to blame, the gun is just there, somebody has to pull the fricken trigger. The laws that are gun related are good, but aren't that good. Even though you have a waiting period in some places, that only stalls things for a day or 2. Banning them all together will only get people killed by something else. I blame this guy because he's a schmuck. If he wanted to kill himself, he shouldn't have taken that many people with him. Some people are selfish that way. But, that's just my opinion, this opinion will also be on my myspace blog.

Daniel

 

[Speed Tracer]

The killer, whose name escapes me at this time, wrote two plays in his playwriting class, and a fellow student posted them online. In a way, they're humorous because they're horribly written, and under different circumstances, they would be funnier. But reading them, and the horrible things described in them, and knowing that they were written by a ruthless murderer who would go on to commit such acts himself... it's simply horrifying.

The two plays are called Richard McBeef and Mr. Brownstone, and should you desire to read them yourself, all you need to do is search for them on Google. They're everywhere now.

But I don't recommend it.

On another note... kudos, Virgina Tech. The last people you might expect to be brave in the aftermath of this tragedy would be those affected the most by it. By being strong and honoring both the lives of those who died and their own legacy, they've set a tremendous example that we can all live by.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

We were talking about it in my creative writing class today, 'cause the guy wrote these creepy plays in his class there...and when the play's creepy enough to freak out even the teacher, it's gotta be creepy.

In today's USA Today, they wrote that my (our) generation, the Gen-Y-ers or millenials or tail-end Gen-X-ers or whatever they call us, has lived through the Challenger disaster (though we were all infants), the Gulf War, Oklahoma City, the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, Columbine and several other school shootings, 9/11, the Columbia disaster, the 2005 tube bombings in London, and now this...

But the article commented that we seem fairly resilient and pull together through it all, no matter what.

 

[CensoredAlso]

It's ironic to me that our country is so obsessed with being 'politically correct' and protecting kids from bad influences, and yet a person like that goes completely under the radar. It's all talk, no one is looking out for these kids.

And yes he was ultimately responsible for his own actions, no question. But clearly he was disturbed and clearly so many people did nothing about it. And now all these students, the gunman and the victims, had to pay.

 

[dabauckham]

I don't really know what to say when something so horrible happens...

My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to all those people that were impacted by this senseless act.

We need more compassion in our society. We need people who can empathize, and can sense problems before they happen. Basically, we need more healers, and less people acting out of their own self-interests. That's part of the reason I entered teaching. I think that it's one way to make a difference. Not that I'm perfect by any means.
I'm sure that I could do more...

But in the weeks, months, and possibly years to come, I'm sure that there will be a lot of discussion about this, how it happened, why it happened, what could have been to stop it. I don't know that there are any easy answers. It all comes down to the way each of us lives our lives individually. We all carry a great responsibility or burden in this sense.

Maya Angelou once remarked that someone in her life spread a rainbow in her cloud (this was during the period when she wasn't speaking because she had been raped and molested). This kind person helped enable her to overcome her hardships and spread a rainbow to someone else's cloud. I know it sounds like a simple concept... but it's another way of looking at the golden rule.

In this time, I hope that many are passing rainbows to those who are suffering from clouds of grief. It won't take away the pain, it won't replace it, but it may help just a little...

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

Like everyone else here, and everywhere, I offer my deepest condolences to the Virginia Tech community, especially the families and close friends of the victims.

I would also like to take a moment to express my profound sympathy for the family of the young man who perpetrated this terrible act. They have a more complicated burden of grief, but are grieving nonetheless.

 

[dabauckham]

I would also like to take a moment to express my profound sympathy for the family of the young man who perpetrated this terrible act. They have a more complicated burden of grief, but are grieving nonetheless.

I wholeheartedly agree. I can't begin to imagine how difficult this must be for that family.