Fed up.....

Am I the only one who is absolutely sickened with the coverage of this VT tragedy?!

To me, the kid who did this was ABSOLUTELY mentally unstable, and it is unfortunate, but the way media and society responds to this almost is enough to make the way the kid snapped seem to make sense.

I turned on the TV to see his sneering roommates get interviewed by Gary Tuchman of CNN, one of them smiled throughout the entire interview as if the whole thing was a big joke, and now everyone got to understand his "hysterical" unusual roommate. They both broke out in laughter when they shared a story about the murderer's "imaginary girlfriend". This is an excellent example of the type of behavior which probably helped push the kid over the edge... and there's not a doubt in my mind that contrary to their assertion, these smiling f*cks were mentally abusive jerks with absolutely little to no care for their strange roommate. When asked point blank if they thought it was amusing the kids actually said "yes".

Then you have the knee jerk reaction of parents to kids at VT. The tragedy took place in an "Engineering" class room but you know a bunch of sobbing hysterical self involved parents must have called up the college to see if their little art student was alive. And then every kid in the school suddenly needs psychiatric treatment because our pathetic weakling society coddles them to the point to make them believe this tragedy is personally theirs. VT is like a small town, and yet when someone down the street from me gets murdered I won't get a government sanctioned personal counselor. Well... give it time.

Worst of all... the 911 syndrome is already occurring and the media and society is demanding retribution against someone else. VT security is responsible, no wait it is the police, no its the students. How about this kid's parents or sponsor in this country?... they might at least have something there. O'Reilly was railing about how VT security should be held responsible for not being able to predict the future better. Now everyone is demanding that there should have been a magical way to read this kid's mind and prevent all of this.

I haven't heard the "ban guns" call yet, but I'm sure it can't be far behind. Maybe we can get a five day waiting period on heavy chains too.

If we let the irrational loony toons have their way in dealing with problems like this, we will have a world that increasingly discriminates those who are different, we will encourage fascism, we will discourage independent thought, and we will make it increasingly more difficult to do a job right. People will not want to go into security or law enforcement because of the potential they will be scapegoated into the blame of a problem they are completely innocent of.

I'm sick of this story, and I'm sick and tired of society's emotional rather than rational response. The pathetic thing is a leader should be able to say "times are tough but this is how we are going to deal..." but in today's world that makes that person heartless and disconnected; but this is one of many reasons why the world is so screwed up and people can't cope with anything.