Meaningless violence
General February 15th, 2008
I said it once. (10/2/06 – Amish school shooting)
I said it again. (4/16/07 – VT massacre)
I’ll say it again. Killing students doesn’t work.
I understand people are hurting. I understand people are in pain. I understand the world is a dark place for some. Shooting up a bunch of freshmen in a geology class isn’t going to solve your problems. If your final goal was to end your own life, why try to take bystanders with you?
I can rationalize that some causes justify killing. Not to excuse or allow murder; killing people is wrong. I think every doctrine of life says that. But I don’t understand how you can search/strive for change in your life, or in the world, by killing students. You make change by educating students. Encouraging students. Inspiring students. Their future will ease your pain — why cut it short?
My thoughts and prayers are with the NIU family after yesterday’s shooting. I’m even sadder that the shooter (Steven Kazmierczak, I’m sure a Steve or Stevie to someone,) was a grad student at UIUC. I’m sad that our community failed to help someone obviously in need, and then he’s hurt another community. Hopefully we can all find a way to heal together.
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