32 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
32 people are dead in a massive shooting at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Early reports disclose the possibility of semi-automatic weapons, a shooter possibly heart broken over an ended relationship, maybe even more than one shooter involved. I don’t know what’s fact right now and what’s not. What I do know is that I have so many different feelings running in so many different directions right now I don’t know what to do about them. My heart is bleeding. I attended Virginia Tech. I know the buildings and the dormitories, the drill field and the coliseum as if I lived there still. I lived, freshman year, in West AJ Hall. I have a family member that is a part of the massive police force that is currently working to make sure the campus is secure. Today’s tragedy is absolutely tearing me apart.
Aside from the proximity of this tragedy to my personal life, it scares me to death. What is wrong with these people? Honestly, I don’t care if your girlfriend broke up with you, or your boyfriend, whatever. I don’t care if you had a bad childhood or if you’re failing math. NOTHING. Absolutely nothing gives you the right to take innocent life. There are no excuses, so please, don’t try to give me any.
And the main part of this that chills me to the bone. Why are our CHILDREN suddenly the ones at risk? Why are there guns in our schools? Any schools? Why can’t we, as a country consisting of some of the most intelligent people in the world, figure out a way to keep our children (at any age) safe from crazed oozi toting gunmen on any random day of the week?
How should we, as parents of toddlers, deal with something like this? How can we help to figure out a way to resolve these tragedies before one of our own children becomes a victim?
My prayers and my deepest sympathies go out the victims and their family’s.
I have no more words.
Virginia Tech shooting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
April 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I’m with you 100 percent Jennifer. Stuff like this shouldn’t happen it should not be so easy to get a gun! I was looking at an article about the shooting and here’s a quote that kind of distuurbed me:
“The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” spokeswoman Dana Perino said
Seems to me he has his priorities a little confused, a few hours after the worst school shooting in the history of the US and he wants to assure everyone he still supports the right to bear arms? It just breaks my heart…
April 17th, 2007 at 6:57 am
I just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:15 am
[...] As for me today, I think I’ll spend my time praying for those who were killed at Virginia Tech yesterday, praying for my own family members who live in Blacksburg, and praying that we can somehow figure out a way to truly keep our children safe from gun toting crazies. [...]
April 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Jennifer,
It must be a real shock having this take place in places you have lived and actually walked in. My heart, too, goes out to all those who lost loved ones. As the mother of a teenage daughter who will be going away to college in a couple of years, I was frightened and horrified. I can only imagine how I would have felt had my daughter been a student there. Give your kids extra hugs and kisses today.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Terrible things happening in the world these days. I wonder about what my babies will end up like…its a strange world we have brought them into.