Sunday, February 17, 2008

NIU Massacre

Just wanted to reflect my thoughts after learning about the tragic NIU incident.

Why so many massacres in schools? Why in US alone? Is it because the youth in US are really stressed out? Is it because they dont have a filter for their stress?

Or is it a global phenomeno in every school, which we are not sure yet, as the "Guns for your safelty" culture is not widespread as it is in US?

Something has to be done. Life is not supposed to be this hard. It is not supposed to be this complex. But why is it so ? Did we humans make it into a complex filth, by our ideas and systems?

We humans, assume materialistic things are important. We define success and failure. We define winner and loser. Are we stringent in our definition? If so, can it be changed? i sincerely doubt it. People who are "successful" are successful because all others define success that way. As we define it, that is where the problem starts.

I would say, the Gun culture in US is the biggest problem why innocent people are killed for one persons wishes. May be the guy wanted to tell the world something that he thought will be powerful if he did it this way. Two things they can do, restrict the usage of guns or make the world a better place to live. The second one is far away from reality. So temporarily, they can do the first one.

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