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Today, my venting is titled- OH F*CK or Oh GAD.
Also, none of the following is courtroom facts, these are my opinions + memories. Don't take this as a total posting of facts.
Today, in the USA, Where I am, A lone gunman killed two people in a Viginia College. He then walked thru the campus, killed about 30 more people, then killed himself. Am I up to my eyeballs in anger + perturbedness + PTSD?
Yer darn tootin'.
Way back when, I lived in a college that had about 40 pupils living on campus. There was a man + woman there who were a couple. One oother man on campus wanted this woman to be his girlfriend, so this dink of a man got 2 friends + a knife + attacked this man while the boyfriend + girlfirend were in the girlfriend's room. The attacked man was sliced with the knife a few times + did not suffer permanent damage or scars. What mental + emotional scarring the man + his girlfriend recieved.....Freak knows.
The student who attacked the man was expelled. oooooh, what a BIIIIIG punishment-for my feeling of security could the school at leasthad him + his buddies arrested? Screw Up. The campus them built security doors to the women's rooms + made it mandatory that all campus dorms had to have their living quarters always locked. [sacrasm] It would have been nice to have been given free councelling from the college, or at least a public assembly to explain-how this attack happened, and WHY security was so piss poor to let a twisted freak with a knife + his friends barge into a room and "mess someone up" witha knife. [ok, that was brutal of me- sorry.]
[Rob catches his breath]. So.....Yeah, innocent people getting attacked + news of an attack or deadly attacks on campus can really [emotionally hold me down and really temporarily mess up my brain + fear like a bad dose of LSD.
Moving on.....I am deeply angered + scared by this lone freak on the Virginia campus that decided that killing a host of innocent stangers was an ok thing to do.
I think mostly I'm just pissed at what a STUPID thing it was to do. What was he after? fame? in 10 yrs time, his nation's public will have fogotten his name. revenge? uh....not unless the school killed 33 people he knew-I don't think revenge is a good thing anyway. What did he accomplish anyway except be a killer and a lackluster news story. nothing.
This guy could have gotten more news by wearing a bikini + busting inot a college faculty meeting + dragging his college dean to the ground. The guy would get in the papers, he'd be a funny story, + we'd always remember his attack. Or he could have attacked the same meeting with water balloons filled with tomato juice + tossing them at the college staff. Or tossing real looking rubber rats + ketchup at the staff. This guy who shot at people at a Virginia school, this was just so dumb. In my opinion, there is next to nothing that is worth a civilian killing himself/herself and there is nothing worth a civilian killing other civilians. There may be exceptions to that, but I'm too pissed off to want to delve into the exceptions. You want me to remember you man? do some non-violent thing that I've never heard of, like storm Buckingham Palace dressed in a Batman costume for "Father's Rights", or some other creative an non-violent attention getting thing like that. [ A guy DID storm Buckingham palace in the batman suit recently, BTW].
That's all the PTSD news that's mean + nasty from my corner of the globe for now. I think now I'll go sulk, grumble about dumb clueless men with guns, and look for some ice cream to soothe my soul. If I've offended anyone. my apologies. Today my nation had more of it's fair share of nuts and bozos. That's all for now. Have a Good Day, Rob
