Flaming Fisticuffs · Apr 18, 09:37 PM by Bryan
I really didn’t want to comment on the shooting, but it’s totally enveloped everybody around me. Well, Jason and I don’t seem to have discussed it much, but definitely everybody else. I finally had it and needed to take down my thoughts. Just so you know, I take things very realistically, which usually makes me look callus. I’m also not siding with him, as what he did was very wrong, but this whole frenzy is just plain insane.
As an Asian male, I feel this guy’s pain. I can imagine the kind of traumas and dramas he goes through. America really doesn’t understand the kinds of pressures a first generation Asian family recieves. This kid was also very obviously disturbed. Combine his instability with the pressures of college and the pressures from being American and you’ve go.
And you know, I don’t think anybody really gives a shit about this guy. The media is out to lynch the bastard over the bridge and everybody is already there with torches and pitchforks. All kinds of people are coming out for interviews for their second of fame. Banking on the tragedy is just god awful. I don’t need to hear every second that somebody publicly is very saddened by this whole tragedy. Of course you’re saddened. Can’t we just mourn and move on?
And not one single piece of society can be to blame for his behavior. No amount of video games, books and movies caused him to shoot all those people. The media loves to think that conservative America has it right; because if somebody else doesn’t give them the idea, then it just won’t happen. So before the days of video games, they didn’t kill anybody? They don’t realize that the mentally insane are just plain crazy. It’s so painfully ironic that the media blames, well, media on his decision to kill all those people.
I think the real people to blame are himself and those close to him. He was spiraling down a depressive slope and nobody did anything. Nobody gave two shits about this kid and he was left to his own devices. He had parents, teachers and students who all recognized his behavior and sat around with thumbs up their asses. When did this society turn into a bunch of bystanders? Did anybody follow up with this kid after he went to the mental hospital? Did anybody follow up with him after his series of disturbing letters? Where was his family?
I think we all let this kid down and I hope we can learn something from this. I hope that we all can look at ourselves and make a difference somewhere, for somebody.
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