Yet Another Campus Massacre
Apr 17th, 2007 by leodini
It used to be that we parents worry about our children being bullied in school.
Today, bullying looks like the least of our concerns. Just open your browser to see what’s happening to our children when they are supposed to be safely taught in school.
Italian Teacher Cuts Off Noisy Kid’s Tongue
Principal Admits Throwing Excrement on Child
Teacher Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Grade 1 Pupil
Head of Pre-School Center Takes 32 of His Own Pupils and 2 Teachers Hostage
Today, the top news that soured my coffee is a report about dead students so many that they make A Nightmare on Elm Street look like High School Musical.
The headline screams, “At least 33 Killed in Va. Tech Massacre“, as if 33 dead students INSIDE THE CAMPUS are not reasons enough to scream.
According to kutv.com, “A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then two hours later, shot up a classroom across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.”
President George Bush lamented the campus bloodbath, which also left 26 students wounded.
“Schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning,” President Bush said. “When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom in every American community.”
The president is, of course, understating the word-wide impact of the tragedy. It is felt not only in America but also around the world. Given the fact that the U.S. is the top exporter of everything, from technology, weapons, movie/TV shows, music to culture, give the rest of the world a little more time to breed its copycat campus mass murderers, and we will see the phenomenon in schools outside the U.S.
The Virginia Tech campus massacre happened as the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colorado approaches its eight-year anniversary. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris (18 years old) and Dylan Klebold (17 years old) killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.
Decades earlier, the University of Texas Massacre horrified not only the US but the world. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, a student of the University of Texas at Austin, after having killed his mother and his wife the night before, climbed up the University’s 27-story tower and shot passersby in the city and on the campus below. He killed 15 people and wounded 31 before Austin police shot him dead.
I’m a Filipino magician with a presentiment of the future. I have seen this vision before, and I’m seeing it again now like a scene on a skipping DVD movie.
I cannot be wrong with my premonition. The campus mass killing will renew heated debate about U.S. gun laws. In the end they will invoke their inviolable right to bear arms and decide instead to blame television for the violence. Not long after that, another mass murderer will wreak havoc on yet another campus. The young murderer will use a gun he found in his daddy’s drawer.
Leodini
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