After watching news report after news report on the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech, I can't help but think that outside of Virginia, this tragedy may be lost in the overwhelming sea of similar "academic shootings" across the country. I hope not. Whether we were directly impacted by knowing the victims personally, or indirectly impacted just because we're human, we cannot let this story become Page 2 news so quickly. The victims (all of us included) deserve to be remembered and honored and mourned. We all died a little yesterday.
Not only was this an injustice done to those innocent students and professors (one a Holocaust survivor!) but this was an injustice done to our "free" society. This is a critical time around the world where religious and cultural issues are diverging further everyday and here we are, showing the world what freedom looks like! What a shame and a terrible tragedy.
What I can't understand is, if these deranged individuals want to take out 30 people with a legal handgun, why don't they enlist in the army and go fight in Afghanistan or in Iraq? Why cut down some of the promising minds of our future? What could these victims have become if they weren't cut down in their pursuit of higher knowledge? What advancements in science, math and engineering could they have brought to us? How could they have made our world a better place? What were we shortchanged by this twisted killer? We'll never know. We all died a little yesterday and we are a little worse off as a world because of it.
Rest in Peace, Hokies. You will not be forgotten.
-Brian
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