Why guns suck... the VA Tech tragedy

Waking up to hear the news that a bunch of kids were shot as early as 8 am this morning was not what I was expecting, but then again who ever would have expected the worst campus shooting in history to happen today.

It makes me cry to just try to imagine how it felt in the moments before, knowing that as you were taking notes in class, your life might be about to end.

While I think that mainstream media outlets have a tendency to exaggerate situations, the new technology that allows people to send in pictures and video from cell phones.... A cellphone video taken outside the building was riddled with 15 + gun shots! Bone chilling. It isnt a movie, it isnt a war zone... it isnt an innercity... it was a college campus! Kids with backpacks! Gravity bongs! No showers before class! Birkenstocks.... Insane.

Anyone who can bear witness to a scene like what happened this morning at VA Tech who still thinks that gun violence is not a major issue, or that current world views have not skewed the manner in which people now handle their own personal problems...you are ignorant.

And this is why guns suck. They empower the weak minded to take action regardless of rationale. They inflate egos to the point of explosion. They speed people beyond the point of no return and once there, they make the unimaginable necessary.

Wake up, America. Wake up and see what we are becoming.

My condolences to the friends and families of those who were affected by this tragedy. My thoughts go out to those trying so hard to help those who were injured.

I only wish that I could do more than rant on a blog and cry on my couch.