Wombat prays for VTech
Go to any news website and you will be greeted by an image of a south korean lad. He could've been picked out from any school yearbook. This guy, as you will already know, massacred 33 people in U.S.'s deadliest shootings 2 days ago.
The more you read around it, the more you think, why wasn't more done to prevent it? With all the warning signs of a disturbed mind, cries for help/attention and fury towards the world contained in an eerie personality... Yet it was so easy for him to walk into a pawn shop a month before... shoot two... go for a stroll to collect his weapons and drop off his package of photos and incoherent anger at the post...come back and shoot a whole lot more... and take out his own depressed life. THIS IS GETTING TOO COMMON NOWADAYS... It makes you fear going into a university library nowadays knowing that a student with an intention to kill will try take out as many as he can, targetting hotspots like so.
GUN CONTROL people....gun control... I know it's an oversimplistic solution as even if there was gun control, the will of a person when he makes up his mind to kill will overcome any gun regulatory barrier. If you've set out to kill, pretty much nothing can stop you. But it probably will make a difference to a person who doesn't have enough guts or willpower to go through the hassle to end his own life or a handful of lives for that matter. The AVAILIBILITY of it, just having it around, the EASY ACCESIBILITY TO ONE alone can start you thinking. Knowing how easy it is to end your misery/inflict vengeance on others, increases the possibility of occurance.
Reading his two plays was kinda eerie. There was just so much anger in it. His own manifested into the characters coupled with his views on the world. It was quite twisted. You can kinda see the world inside his head. But not understand it. I could sense his intepretations of the world and other's actions and the way he perceives them fuels more anger. He was clearly disturbed. He wrote around topics like paedophilia, angry accusations and resorted to violence as a final relief.
As of this moment, new news say he was admitted to a mental ward, stalks women... He sent a package with his pictures etc to the news in between his shootings. A cry for attention? A shot at fame? To get the message in his mind out to the world? Perhaps his cry for attention wasn't attended to fast enough, and his later shootings were a manifestation of that anger?
This guy showed signs of psychotic behaviour long before. Why wasn't more done about it? How easy is it for someone with a record to obtain suspicious amounts of guns and ammo...no questions asked? So many questions whenever something like that happens. I'd dread when it happens again *touchwood*. More lives, different university, different statistics. Something has to be done. The world's supposed to be a safer place...
Honestly, one of my housemates worries me. She moved in this year and gives me the creeps. She shows signs of behaviour akin to him. She's not into interaction and doesn't heed to your greetings sometimes answering curtly to cut off any communication, she relishes in morbid ideas (when she DOES talk), has a somewhat strange perception of the world, and laughs and cheers whenever something bad (catastrophe, murder) happens on tv. Call me paranoid but I'm gonna make sure I lock the door every night now and skirt gingerly around her in the kitchen.
Am buried in too much work and no direction really. Need to get more motivated and speed things up. Paul's been away at his place for two days. We're trying to strike more of a balance with our workload. It's kinda weird after having him around almost all the time during Easter break. I miss him already.
My nose is bleeding and I've got a headache. I hardly get headaches. Must be stress and lack of sleep. Could also be 'heaty' food and not enough fruits. Dehydration probably contributes to it too (am not a water gulper). Or a combo of all... ACE.
Broody Herr... It's almost 2am... got work in like 7 hours...Time to sleep then...
The more you read around it, the more you think, why wasn't more done to prevent it? With all the warning signs of a disturbed mind, cries for help/attention and fury towards the world contained in an eerie personality... Yet it was so easy for him to walk into a pawn shop a month before... shoot two... go for a stroll to collect his weapons and drop off his package of photos and incoherent anger at the post...come back and shoot a whole lot more... and take out his own depressed life. THIS IS GETTING TOO COMMON NOWADAYS... It makes you fear going into a university library nowadays knowing that a student with an intention to kill will try take out as many as he can, targetting hotspots like so.
GUN CONTROL people....gun control... I know it's an oversimplistic solution as even if there was gun control, the will of a person when he makes up his mind to kill will overcome any gun regulatory barrier. If you've set out to kill, pretty much nothing can stop you. But it probably will make a difference to a person who doesn't have enough guts or willpower to go through the hassle to end his own life or a handful of lives for that matter. The AVAILIBILITY of it, just having it around, the EASY ACCESIBILITY TO ONE alone can start you thinking. Knowing how easy it is to end your misery/inflict vengeance on others, increases the possibility of occurance.
Reading his two plays was kinda eerie. There was just so much anger in it. His own manifested into the characters coupled with his views on the world. It was quite twisted. You can kinda see the world inside his head. But not understand it. I could sense his intepretations of the world and other's actions and the way he perceives them fuels more anger. He was clearly disturbed. He wrote around topics like paedophilia, angry accusations and resorted to violence as a final relief.
As of this moment, new news say he was admitted to a mental ward, stalks women... He sent a package with his pictures etc to the news in between his shootings. A cry for attention? A shot at fame? To get the message in his mind out to the world? Perhaps his cry for attention wasn't attended to fast enough, and his later shootings were a manifestation of that anger?
This guy showed signs of psychotic behaviour long before. Why wasn't more done about it? How easy is it for someone with a record to obtain suspicious amounts of guns and ammo...no questions asked? So many questions whenever something like that happens. I'd dread when it happens again *touchwood*. More lives, different university, different statistics. Something has to be done. The world's supposed to be a safer place...
Honestly, one of my housemates worries me. She moved in this year and gives me the creeps. She shows signs of behaviour akin to him. She's not into interaction and doesn't heed to your greetings sometimes answering curtly to cut off any communication, she relishes in morbid ideas (when she DOES talk), has a somewhat strange perception of the world, and laughs and cheers whenever something bad (catastrophe, murder) happens on tv. Call me paranoid but I'm gonna make sure I lock the door every night now and skirt gingerly around her in the kitchen.
Am buried in too much work and no direction really. Need to get more motivated and speed things up. Paul's been away at his place for two days. We're trying to strike more of a balance with our workload. It's kinda weird after having him around almost all the time during Easter break. I miss him already.
My nose is bleeding and I've got a headache. I hardly get headaches. Must be stress and lack of sleep. Could also be 'heaty' food and not enough fruits. Dehydration probably contributes to it too (am not a water gulper). Or a combo of all... ACE.
Broody Herr... It's almost 2am... got work in like 7 hours...Time to sleep then...
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