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April 17, 2007
Horror
You know what the worst part about this whole Virginia Tech shooting spree is? For me, at least, I wasn't that shocked at the whole thing. It was an awful tragedy, and it reminds me of the disgusting things people can do. But there I was, reading about it and not feeling all that surprised.
Is that what it's come to? So many shootings, bombings and suicide attacks, that an immense tragedy like this doesn't affect me that much. I was a freshman in college when the Columbine attacks occured, and that left a pretty big mark on me. But so much has happened since then. More school shootings, the 9/11 attacks, the London underground bombings. It's like, what else can possibly happen?
The fact that it happened to people like me certainly enhances it. It's more personal than when 90 Iraqis die when somebody blows up a bomb in a Baghdad market. But is it that any less tragic? It shouldn't be - and that, I think, is the scariest part. That I'm so close to being numb to all this.
entry no. 823
Posted by oz115 at April 17, 2007 10:18 AM