Vasu
Reddy from Chicago
vasureddy@aol.com
For societies that follow basic rules of living life, it is hard to imagine that someone would just barge into a public place and start shooting people without discrimination. For religious or fanatical groups to highjack and crash big airplanes into great big buildings in what is the greatest city on earth was an eye opener not just for American people but the whole world. It really showed how vulnerable life was when someone was willing to risk their own to destroy other people’s life and property.
Home grown violence of indiscriminate killing of people, all of whom are typically innocent strangers has become common in the recent years. Shopping malls, movie theaters, parking lots, schools, and any other place we think as a place of safety and recreation and visit without worrying for one’s life, have all become places attracting violence. Of late very public places have become places of carnage, and it is not because of some terrorist organization, but home grown individual discontent. These individuals who are discontent with their life (for whatever reasons of their own making) go on a violent rampage on unsuspecting and innocent people in public places. There is absolutely no way to anticipate the brutal carnage and there is never a warning to unsuspecting victims.
The latest incident in Newtown, Connecticut is by far the worst of its kind. It targeted little children in their school. No safe place for anyone; what has come to the society in which little children’s school is the target of killing, and that too of little ones so little, who can’t phantom why they are being shot at. The children are not only innocent of what might be happening around them; they are the future of this society. Killing them for whatsoever personal reason one might have is plain wrong and inhuman.
Whatever the wrongs of the society that might have been inflected on the individuals who kill strangers are self made issues and have no relevance to those who are being attacked. Labeling these killers as mentally challenged is to hide the disgusting behavior they display and the callous attitude they have towards other people’s life. These killers are stable enough to acquire guns and ammunition, and target specific places and mercilessly massacre unsuspecting and innocent people. They are completely in control of their actions when they drive to public places with intent to kill. They cannot be mentally challenged to load guns and find people to kill. If we had someone of another faith or color target public places we call it terror, but when local guys kills we call them mentally challenged, and this is really a farce allowing the law and judicial departments from accounting these guys as anything but terrorists and treat them as terrorists.
vasureddy@aol.com
For societies that follow basic rules of living life, it is hard to imagine that someone would just barge into a public place and start shooting people without discrimination. For religious or fanatical groups to highjack and crash big airplanes into great big buildings in what is the greatest city on earth was an eye opener not just for American people but the whole world. It really showed how vulnerable life was when someone was willing to risk their own to destroy other people’s life and property.
Home grown violence of indiscriminate killing of people, all of whom are typically innocent strangers has become common in the recent years. Shopping malls, movie theaters, parking lots, schools, and any other place we think as a place of safety and recreation and visit without worrying for one’s life, have all become places attracting violence. Of late very public places have become places of carnage, and it is not because of some terrorist organization, but home grown individual discontent. These individuals who are discontent with their life (for whatever reasons of their own making) go on a violent rampage on unsuspecting and innocent people in public places. There is absolutely no way to anticipate the brutal carnage and there is never a warning to unsuspecting victims.
The latest incident in Newtown, Connecticut is by far the worst of its kind. It targeted little children in their school. No safe place for anyone; what has come to the society in which little children’s school is the target of killing, and that too of little ones so little, who can’t phantom why they are being shot at. The children are not only innocent of what might be happening around them; they are the future of this society. Killing them for whatsoever personal reason one might have is plain wrong and inhuman.
Whatever the wrongs of the society that might have been inflected on the individuals who kill strangers are self made issues and have no relevance to those who are being attacked. Labeling these killers as mentally challenged is to hide the disgusting behavior they display and the callous attitude they have towards other people’s life. These killers are stable enough to acquire guns and ammunition, and target specific places and mercilessly massacre unsuspecting and innocent people. They are completely in control of their actions when they drive to public places with intent to kill. They cannot be mentally challenged to load guns and find people to kill. If we had someone of another faith or color target public places we call it terror, but when local guys kills we call them mentally challenged, and this is really a farce allowing the law and judicial departments from accounting these guys as anything but terrorists and treat them as terrorists.
As
a society we show great empathy to such tragedy and I am personally 100% sure
that everyone who heard of this carnage on little children had tears in their
eyes as the President did. What do we do
now and what will the president do next along with the legislators of this
country? We live in a country which has
more shops selling guns than McDonalds.
We must find a way to stop the attacks on general public by disgruntled
individuals. Each and every one of us has
right to live; free and without fear and in freedom. This society should not allow individuals to
simply carry weapons and use them at will on unsuspecting people. The killing of the little ones in Newton
should serve as catalyst for the law makers to act to prevent the loss of
innocent life.
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