April 17th, 2007
Tuesday April17, 2007
There is no title because words can not describe the 2 hours of horror experienced during the VA Tech Massacre. We have experienced violence in this country, the past few years. 9-11, shock and awe, Saddam murder, some of the violence we celebrated, some we were surprised and frighten. Yesterday we were shocked.31 people lost their lives, thousands more lost innocence.
We all want to show our sorrow, our support, our love toward the families of the dead. We want to pray for the family of the killer and his soul. At some point we want to understand. Is God trying to get our attention? We have killed thousands of Inocent Iraq citizens as we celebrated shock and awe. The horror of death by murder was on our TV’s last night. Our national leadership has resorted to violence and now in an exquisite setting in the western part of a state for lovers,death and violence was front and center. Violence rears it ugly head in inner cities on a regular basis, few care but now in our TV rooms we watched and wondered, why? America vilolence is fastly becoming part of our lecagy. Have we ever lost 31 soiders in George Bush’s war, like we did yesterday on a college campus?
My nephew recieved his master degree and PHD in engineering from Virginia Teck. He was on his way last night to be near the campus. I have spent many a night in Blacksburgh, at the Marriott hotel off route 81. I always enjoyed myself. Guess who is going to Blacksburgh today? Our President George Bush. Did he learn and become more sensitive since Katrina, or was Kanye West right?
Please see the link describing the stop blogging initciative for April 30. To support the famiies of the dead, we bloggers can band together and pray for their recovery.
Stop Blogging
April 17th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I agree JD, it is something we can do in the blogging community. My prayers goto the families of the victims in this difficult time. I have also committed to join the April 30th day of silence
My Vtech Post
April 17th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
LDW, I am sadden and I hope that our actions as a blogging community will provide a united show of respect. Thanks for checking in.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:48 am
It’s of no consolation to these poor families that have lost so much, but murder and violence rates are actually on the decline in the United States and have been for over a decade.
Per capita violence is down as well.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
April 18th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
This is true and Clinton’s 100,000 new policemen on the street has helped. I am worried that the budget cuts to pay for George Bush’s war have stopped funding for some of the police. The jobs generated during the Clinton years have shown a postive trend line in relationship to crime.Now that Bush has caused less growth in jobs than any US President in history, You can understand the fear.