VA Tech shooting

It was a very windy night with objects hitting our window and a howling in the air, that lead into this morning here in Virginia. If this were a book it would be a great prelude with forboding to the shootings today at VA TECH. The President will be on at 4:15 pm est to talk about the shooting as Governor Tim Kaine comes back from trade talks in Asia to comfort the public.

The last report I heard is that it's 32 for the count of people dead on Fox News and maybe more... I've watched as the President's press person announced that this is the worst shooting in the history of the U.S. Call me jaded but I find that hard to believe after Columbine and the shooting in PA last year.

I think I would rather not think about the events competing with each other. There was just a guest commentator on Fox about 5 minutes ago saying that this is all because we have a media that glamorizes death and violence and that we are too engrossed in video games that encourage people to behave this way.

Personally, I have a hard time blaming a video game for this mass shooting, maybe video games full of violence are not good for people on the edge. I think the real issue is that as a society we are more fractured as institutions are broken down and people are stressed, pushed to perform. I think these shootings are more a result of our post modern culture, the overall structure was broken down in the modern era. And now, in the post modern era their is a desire for structure and struggle for community that is harder to attain.

It's just easier for someone to fall apart and go nuts shooting people, without anyone taking notice first-apparently this guy was looking for his girlfriend to kill??? That's the report that keeps coming from students on campus who call into Fox. Student's jumping out of windows to escape the gunfire, a campus on lock down, FBI agents and shock..it's so strange that this is the second shooting at this school in not a year, but less than 9 months.

It reminds me of 9/11 and how I was thrown off my college campus because some jerk called in bomb threats. It wasn't enough that we were in shock over the attacks in New York and DC- but then someone had us kicked off our campus and even more terrified.

Now political contenders want in...Senator Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, I think I should make a list of all the politicians who will want to talk about this.. My mind only imagines the reaction from politicians and what kinds of solutions might be introduced..

I think big government restraints on violence and behavior would do nothing but make people feel more alienated. It's important for local communities to work harder to care for each other before something like this happens...of course no one can predict these sorts of things..