More Virgina shooting thoughts and cricket

In the common room of my halls as we speak. again no internet connection so this is in textedit again.I'm here because the cricket is on. its england against the west Indies, a meaningless match but it better than doing nothing in the flat. Still having trouble sleeping for various reasons. so those who i know who read this , if i get cranky then ignore me. Just a few more thoughts on Virginia shootings, and the media obsession with the killer Cho. I understand why the media is focusing on the personality of the guy in question, it raises ratings and gets more readers. I also can see why people want to know more about him, in attempt to understand what drives a person to commit such an act. My concern thou is the constant fixation on everything form the plays he wrote to the films he watches, his life and problems are now rite large across the Tv news banners and headlines of the world. I worry it is this that will truly inspire the next psychologically damaged teenage to pick up his gun, so he can be understood and his problems voiced. Just a thought but maybe its time to learn the lessons of this event, and how he created his media package to be sent to NBC news and maybe this should have been handed over to the correct authority and maybe she should have been denied his moment in the media spotlight because maybe we should know more about his victims and less about him


However the other side of the coin if we try to understand why he did what he did then it would be easier to spot similar issues with others

The Names change, but the story stays the same

The shootings in Virginia Tech university were the worst single massacre of its kind in US history, however its this fact alone the distinguishes it from the countless others that have occurred in the land of the free. Each time an event like this happens the debate about gun control is voiced, and you get the same idiotic statements "If the students in the university also had guns they could have defended themselves" and the classic NRA slogan "Guns Don’t kill people, People kill people". This kind of logic baffles me, yes I understand that there is always people out there (especially in a nation of 300 million) who are willing to commit this kind of act and yes he could have still killed people if he had a knife maybe not as many. Its the physical simplicity of using a gun, its the act of pulling the trigger which allows the killer to feel disconnected for the killed. The state of Virginia did recently introduce gun controls, limiting people to one ... a week. I feel this is a sector of American culture that the rest of the world simply doesn’t understand. Yes America has amazing differences between rich and poor, and yes its has a particular attachment to faith however all of these things are understandable, its obsession with the Gun, in spite of the countless deaths a year is not so easily comprehended. However despite the lost of 32 life’s many of which where young, the debate in America will follow the same lines as before. The security should have been better, the alert should have been quicker, the police acted to slowly , politicians and the media will blame everything but not the second amendment. "The right to bare arms" the problem is there, Americans believe it is a fundamental right to own a weapon designed to kill. For me it is not a right, it is a privilege. America is fixated with freedom, so much so that they will tolerate the events in Virginia, nothing will change, only the numbers and names of the dead. Where is there freedom, we should ask there parents (and the countless other victims) do they want to protect the supremacy of American constitution or do they want there son's and Daughters Back.


sorry this post is kinda lame, i edited it about a thousand times and just decided to go with what i wrote in the first place. also from the other side of the coin Canada has a higher number of guns ( per person) than America but does have the same problem , so maybe its to do with the American psyche and the importance place upon success

Backdated Blog

I am blogging to you form the lounge , alas the lounge has not got internet access i am just writing in TEXTEDIT ( the mac version of notepad) and will update when i return home. Today seems a better day, managed to complete one of the three assignments i have due in. When i say complete i actually mean Bluff my way through a presentation on Urbanization, but its not assessed so at the moment i could really care. its not even 11 yet and I'm bored of the day, I'm sure it will pick up. i will update a piece about the shooting in america , and my view on Gun control.

I can now blog in hindi

Not that a particallar want to, but its nice to have the option. Just Put three loads of washing in the machine ( on Superwash) so i have 45 mins to spare, so i thought i would do somthing constructive... then i decided to update my blog. Room is horrible horrible mess, i had to throw out 2 mugs earlier because they had grown alot of mould, i should tidy up and do some work but its really hard to find the effort today. lots of things playing on my mind, including uni work. Just having on of those days when i can be bothered, as soon as i woke up i knew that i may aswell just good to sleep until the next day. however i did do somthing contructive today, i got myself a fancy external hard drive. 400 GB , i can see me filling that in a hurry , but i needed to back up my work and my music. I am almost certain that not a single person reads this, it would be nice if someone did, but on the other hand its a good thing, i can say how i feel. Have a bad feeling about the anime soc socail sec job, i was really excited about it to begin with ( and still am really) but i stressed that im not gonna be very good, might arrange the anime soc BBQ in order to restore my faith in my own ablity. Uni work isnt going great, i love the subject but my own lack of organistaion is still letting me down, its depressing that the same thing that held me back in primary school is still my problem, maybe people dont change. Its strange being away form my family at the moment with everything thats happening seems like when i am home i know i am not helping but when i am away i feel really distant and helpless. This is a remarkbly frank blog for me , usually im all about politics or stupid stuff. who knows maybe i have found an outlet for expression. i would say "its ok thou , it will be fine in the end" but i dont believe that deep down , stuff might not be. If it is , of if its not i suppose the point is that at least im living my life.