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Let Virginia Tech RIP
Like many of you, I am still trying to work my way through the variety of thoughts and emotions I have surrounding Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech.
- As a teacher, I feel a certain fear for my own safety and the safety of my students: when schools become battlegrounds, who among us has answers?
- I cannot shake the anger I have over holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu dying in the manner he did.
- When I think of all the lives that were lost and add to that all of the survivors who are now forced to live with the event for every day that remains in each of their lives, it becomes a thing so big it defies description.
- I think of the relatives and friends and acquaintances of the shooter, and I wonder who will comfort them. I wonder whether or not that ever crossed his mind: those he would scar by virtue of relation to or association with him.
- I am tired of hearing this shooting touted as the biggest and/or worst shooting rampage in American history: do the number of lives lost matter, and do we really want to keep challenging people to win this thing that seems to be some kind of a death contest?
- As a (trained and responsible) gun owner, I see where part of this is going to go, and it angers me that while car bombs are being used daily to kill innocent people in Iran and Iraq, people in the United States are going to blame guns for what happened at Virginia Tech.
- I want to scream at the top of my lungs that if a person wants to kill people, the person will—that blaming guns isn’t rational.
Like many of you, I am second guessing a variety of things that are gradually coming to light as more of this story unfolds.
Here’s the thing: given the way I feel, I can only imagine what the Virginia Tech students, faculty, parents, friends, neighbors, community, etc. are feeling.
Perhaps the rest of us can deal with our issues on our own.
Perhaps the media can leave those who were directly affected by this alone.
Perhaps we can all let Virginia Tech Rest-in-Peace until (and if) they are ready to help the rest of us cope with what we feel and our need to know more about what happened.
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March 10th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Понравился Ваш сайт! В рунете вообще мало чего дельного в блогах пишут. Всё стараются друг у друга скопировать посты. Года 2 назад было интересно ходить по разным блогам-видно было сразу-люди старались писать посты..а щас уже только для яндекса и стараются. Вообщем желаю продолжать Вам в Том же духе.
С уважением Ваш читатель.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:19 am
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March 15th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
а тут есть что почитать
так держать…не забрасывайте блог.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
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March 16th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
понравился ваш блог
March 17th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Мне понравился ваш сайт. Добавил в букмарки
March 18th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
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March 19th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Хороший пост, бро…так держать!!!
March 19th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
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March 19th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Статья хорошая, только если бы ты оформил её немножко получше (добавил скрин-другой, или какой-нибудь арт) и заголовки сделал – тебе бы вообще цены не было
March 20th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
+1 к предыдущему коментарию…форматирование можно было бы и поудобнее сделать. а так очень понравилось
March 21st, 2010 at 8:11 am
Да ладно, чего к человеку пристали. Норм там всё с форматированием. Добавил в закладки ваш сайт.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 am
+1 хороший пост
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 am
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March 22nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
А мне понравился пост
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
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March 23rd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Блог хороший, много хорошего материалла..уж извините что не по теме поста, просто очень понравилось у вас. рад что наткнулся на ваш ресурс.
March 24th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Ух, сколько коментариев то тут набрасали. Ну отмечусь и я-пост бомба..так держать, молодцом автор!!!
March 24th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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March 24th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Баянистая тема..уже на куче блогов об этом пишут…Вы бы хоть пооригинальней это всё тогда завернули, чтоб читать интересно было. С уважением ваш читатель.
March 25th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
А мне понравилось, побольше бы таких постов в рунете..Спасибо автору.
March 25th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
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March 29th, 2010 at 6:15 am
Пост супер!!! Ждём продолжения
March 30th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Интересно, а много времени отнимает ведение блога?
April 12th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
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