killer? oh, no...

US university shooting kills 33
The campus has now been closed and students evacuated
Scene of shootings
A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead.
There were two incidents two hours apart, at a student dorm where two were killed and at an engineering building where 30 and the gunman died.
Officers said they were working to link the attacks and had a preliminary ID of the gunman but would not release it.
After the deadliest shooting rampage in US history, President George W Bush said the US was "shocked and saddened".
"Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community," he said.
The state university in the town of Blacksburg is home to 26,000 students.


Adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm


I was shocked after reading this news. I thought about it and found that how complicated it was to educate one man.

From the news details I knew that his parents don’t care him much. They seldom concern about their child.
This makes me think if another case happened in my hometown: a student’s parents are always busy with their work and always concern about money. Once, after their child was injured, they asked doctors if the fee was free for charge. They didn’t concern much about their child much and eventually one day, the poor child suicide.

This case can actually reflect some of the reasons lead to the failure of education: parents. Parents are models of children. If parents don’t care about their children, children will possibly become shy. Time after time, they will be apathetic to the world.
Although education in school is important, students spend most of their time with their family, mother and father. So, it’d parents’ duty to take care of children and lead them to the right way.

According to what the news said, Cho Seung-hui hated his wealthy classmates and the rich. This relates to the common problem in every society: the differences between the rich and the poor. The rich is absolutely the prior group among people. In this case, it’s nature for ordinary people to envy them. But, if the level of just envy ascends to the level of hate, it is a kind of serious psychological problem. In my opinion, there are different kinds of people in the society. We don’t need to concern much about other people. We are all human; we have no difference between each other. We live in the same planet. We should be united and face the difficulties together. But not having faction with each other.

Also, I want to make some comments about guns. I know it is legal for a qualified citizen to own guns, but I think the process should be more precise. Cho Seung-hui bought the gun and bullets from a legal shop. The shop assistant didn’t even look at his certificates carefully. Like the news mentioned, they took only one minute to accede him to buy the gun and bullets. I think this is terrible. Guns are not only for defending, but also for attacking. The shop didn’t think of the consequence carefully and allow an unqualified man to buy a gun and some bullets. America is a country of freedom as Americans said, but no limitation or restriction means no freedom. In my opinion, freedom is based on restriction. Freedom is given only if you can control yourself. How to achieve self-control? Through limitation, of course. In this way, people can live a happier life with restriction and freedom.

At last, I wish that this kind of tragedy will not happen again.