Yet Another Va. Tech Chime In

There are many different views, and a lot of speculation going on about the "reason" behind the Va. Tech shootings that claimed the lives of 32 people this week. You know, the "reason" was that the kid was fucked up, short, sweet and to the point.

I'm not a member of the NRA, but I do agree that guns DO NOT kill people. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! It's not the presence of the guns that caused this tragedy, it was the work of a fucked up person. It can be argued that if the guy hadn't had access to the guns he maybe wouldn't have killed anyone, or at least not as many. But then again, Jack the Ripper didn't have a gun and it didn't seem to bother him that much. And for all those who are trying to come up with their therories about "why": What does it matter? We can't change it, we can't fix the kid that did this. We might be able to learn the signs, but then to do anything about it takes a change in our social culture. There is an old saying about it taking a village to raise a child. I think it still does, only the village doesn't much seem to care until a Columbine or Va. Tech happens. Maybe we need to look at how to fix our village first, and get it back to raising kids. Perhaps then the kids might learn different ways of fixing problems than with a gun.

For all the parents, friends, and families, I am terribly sorry. No one deserves to be touched by violence the way you have. For the rest of us, rather than trying to rationalize the why, and before we center all the blame on the shooter's parents, let's look at ourselves. We are the village that should have raised that boy.