monday’s events in blacksburg were tough to read about and see pictures of. the first thing i thought of was the two guys i know at work who are VT grads and if they knew anyone caught in the engineering building. i tried watching the news on monday night, but couldn’t stomach more than a few minutes. in typical media fashion, they managed to sensationalize a story for their own benefit. can they be trusted with anything anymore? i saw a guy on MSNBC ask the gun shop owner “how do you feel knowing the shooter bought the guns at your store?” what are you supposed to say to that? i know what i’d say to that, and they’d have to bleep it out. then you had the people demanding answers on why the school wasn’t locked down. how exactly would you lock down an entire campus of over 20,000 people? of course, these people didn’t have an answer for that, but they sure felt they were right. then when it was revealed the nut job had sent video and writings to NBC, every media outlet showed it. how dare they even acknowledge his efforts like that! apparently they thought they should give him his due time, well fuck him. he’s dead, and he shouldn’t be allowed to have a voice, when there were 32 other people who don’t have one because of him.

a lot of schools had tributes this week, including clemson. seeing the video of the candlelight vigil at VT, where they started chanting got me choked up. i can’t think of anything else to say that doesn’t come off as just another person sending sympathy, so i’ll cut this one short. i went to college, i know what it’s like to feel like you’re a part of a bigger family, how campus is supposed to be your sanctuary away from the world, but monday just doesn’t make any sense to me. the families and friends of the victims are in my prayers.
clemson for VT