By Staff
Our American history will record another horrific incident of murder of Virginia Tech students and some faculty members. More bad news of insane actions of killing in a free society.
I can accept bad news. I suppose like most, we have become accustomed to it. The death of family members who are murdered, children getting killed because their thoughtless parent allowed them to ride in the bed of a pick-up truck, or the parent who was so brain-fried from drugs, they failed to put their child in a car seat.
I have learned I can deal with bad news and I suppose those who see bad news on a continuing basis, also have to deal with it. What continues to set my concerns is when bad news becomes so outrageous that every mental institution and addiction treatment center in the land have not opened their doors, but have somehow trained the sanity impaired and pharmaceutical brain fried how to infect others.
They infect us with disorders, multiple personalities, impairments, conditions and addictions and then send these mentally contagious, to infect our police departments, government agencies, churches, schools and businesses.
What would you call it when someone comes up to a casket and slides the rings off a deceased woman's fingers? What would you call it when a group of mannerless nitwits start a fight in the middle of a funeral, or roll by a church and shoot into a crowd?
Insane actions of evil and killing in a free society.
What would you call it when a father or mother kills their entire family and commits suicide? What would you call it when a brother of football player allegedly kills two people and steals their car, just so he can go watch the game? Or when a group of youth have a shoot out at a crowded shopping mall?
These days it appears as if the definition of what is reasonable or outrageous has undergone a major transformation.
What we used to call "crazy" and outrageous or just plain "nuts" has become routine.
And so, it appears we have become accustomed to amoral, selfish and narcissistic killers, who kill for the simple joy of bolstering their egos through the theft of another's life.
We have been desensitized by mall shootings, school killings, parental murders, assassinations, massacres, murder and other madness.
We are indeed living in a time of murderous criminality.
What lessons are being taught in our homes to our children by the parents of young bank robbers, murders and rapists?
Who can we trust to be lawful citizens that live in and around us?
Of Cho Seung-Hui, 23, I can't help but think that I, and others, made it possible for him to have the privilege of being a legal resident, who became the executor of 32 natural born Americans, whose father perhaps fought and gave their lives so he would have an opportunity for an education.
It has been said "those who consent to act and those who do it shall be equally punished." I think Cole, a parliamentary defender of the common law against an arbitrary dictator and sovereign king, meant those who consent to an act by allowing it to happen are just as liable as those who commit the deed.
There were those who knew that Cho was a ticking time bomb that would eventually explode and thought nothing, or did nothing about it.
We are living on the edge of many more tragedies, how soon after this will we soon forget what happened, as we did eight years ago at a high school in Colorado? Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.
We complain about everything under the sun and the atrocities, murder, highway robbery and crime, against both God and man continue.
We complain about bad schools, criminally bigoted teachers, indifferent politicians and out-of-touch leaders, but do nothing about any of them.
So, if we have the power to open our mouths, write letters, protest, sign petitions and do not, we are as guilty as the bureaucratic slackers, racist institutions and indifferent civil servants, about whom we complain.
The lesson plan is before us for a second time in the state of Virginia at the Virginia Tech College. How long will it be before we will be having a refresher course? Only time will tell.