01-11-2011, 05:55 AM
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really interesting write up on the virginia tech massacre-
http://www.mail-archive.com/mythfolk.../msg01122.html
heres part of it-
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Youth is torturous, to be sure, but the school shooters who selfishly
impose their pain and anger onto others--often randomly--bring to light
new horrors that we never thought possible. And Cho, however sick he
was, knew the story of Columbine--and maybe also the Amish schoolhouse,
or Paducah, or Red Lake, or Jonesboro. Cho's raving manifesto mentions
his reverence for Harris and Klebold, the specters of whom are like dark
martyrs to those whose hate consumes them. But Cho is not a copy-cat; he
knew that a mass shooting is a disturbingly real, potent, and viable
option. The troubled loner looking for vengeance on a pitiless world may
just consider it; the idea suddenly and irretrievably exists.
As we sift through the sound-bitten detritus of the tragedy at Virginia
Tech, I wonder about all the kids of this generation. Undergraduates at
Tech would have been teens, as Cho was, during Columbine. Were they
scared to go to high school after that? Perhaps the kids of that
generation thought they'd escaped when they graduated--only to find that
the gunman they'd eluded as an adolescent was back as an English major.
A grisly college sequel. What does the world look like to a generation
who has grown up with the frightful knowledge that killers can lurk in
classrooms? I doubt their first concern is gun control.
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