Last Monday, April 16, 2007, was the day the worst school shooting in our great nation's history occured. I was watching live when they came on with "this just in." I heard the name Virgina Tech and I collapsed. You expect these things to happen in other countries. Not here. These things don't happen in America. They happen in Madrid or London or Bagdad. A shooter doesn't just walk into a school and kill 33 people in America.

But it happened. When most people hear news like that, they cry. But what does the media do? They report live from the school and the shooter's home and the shooter's dorm and so on. They are unemotional. We report you decide is their slogon, but do they report with feelings? Are they truely sadden by this or,as their expression tells the audiance, is this just another big payday? another anna nicole? They bring commentators who blame the violence on things like gun control  or video games or how few times the shooter was taken to the circus by his father. They place blame but offer nothing to extingish our sorrow as a nation. The prez and a few other politicians gives some comfort, but it barely makes through the noise of the media. Is the cause gun control, or an out of control society, lifting up a precious few who have the right clothes, listen to the right music, go to the right parties, have the right friends, and watch the right tv shows. I watched a few moments of Cho's rage filled rant and I wondered: no one cared about how disturbed and angry he was. He never said anything. He was just another face, another hard to pronnounce name, another funny accent. Another loner, another loser. He shut himself from the world and drifted into a hell. He is as much a victim as anyone. Cho died a long time ago. Something else shot and killed 33 students in VA. Something else.

I pray daily for the families of the victims of the VA Shootings. God Bless them.

-SgtHydra