Feel for the Victims....and the Shooter!

From 2007

That title had to get your attention. If you have not been under a rock somewhere, then you have definitely heard about the horrifying tragedy at the Virginia Tech Campus this week. There were 32 dead after another school shooting. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. But this entry is dedicated to the shooter. Yes, I said it, the shooter.

Now, in no way do I condone shooting up people and killing others. You will have to follow me closely and see where I am coming from.

This was a sick kid. He was declared mentally ill, and harm to himself and others in 2005. Where was the help for this kid? Obviously he got none, or we wouldn't have this blood on our hands. That is right, our hands!

We have all been picked on, left out, made fun of, or felt in isolation from the world sometime in our life. If you have not, you are either lying, or you are a needle in a haystack. My question is, how did you feel when this happened to you? Angry, sad, depressed, or all of the above? You probably even hated someone so much for doing these things that you said, "I wish I could kill them." We all have! The only difference is we do not do it 99% of the time. But there are those times like this, and Columbine, where someone gets so fed up they totally lose their minds and go on a rampage. How can we prevent it?

I guess we really cannot, because the world is what it is. Fucked up! Like I said, I do not condone what the kid did, but I do feel his pain. He ranted and raved about how the rich kids with their money and cars hold those things over us less unfortunate human’s heads. Shit, that's how it is all over the country, the top 1% run everything and flaunt their shit, and us people are here to do all the work and struggle through life. It can get to be so frustrating. Then they pick on us, put us down, and make us feel helpless and worthless. I have felt that way before. I have never and would never kill someone over it; I just say fuck them and think their pieces of shit. But, has anyone got this far down before like this shooter? Yes! Like I said, look at Columbine and those kids.

Sometimes people get pushed so far, and made to feel so down, that they just do not think straight any more. They cannot think of a solution on how to get even or feel good about themselves, and since they have suffered, they feel the ones that made them suffer should suffer as well. They want them to feel pain to, so they shoot them up, plain and simple. They have no other alternative in their head. They've been pushed over the edge and lost their minds.

We are the cause of this. We have all felt like him to some extent, but we also have been on the other foot and picked on and put someone down. We are all guilty of both. This is society's fault. What can we do to fix it? Treat each other equal, and with respect, and  have a "no one person is better than another" attitude and implement it into our lives. Guess what though? That will never happen!

So guess what you can expect? Expect more senseless violence like this to happen again and again and again. The world is falling apart, and it is our own selfish fault. We made it this way, so we got to live with it. Like they say, you made your bed now sleep in it.

So, I feel for all in this tragedy, even the shooter. I feel the pain he felt, that left him no other alternative. I feel for him that he got pushed in that dark, dark corner alone. I feel for him because no one was there to help him overcome this pain and let it get so bad he lost his mind. I pray and send my condolences to the deceased, including him. No one had to die that day, not even the shooter. What has the world come to? Nothing good I see.