Here it goes again...now the blame and the focus will shift towards the killer and the school management missing the real issue. Even in the columbine shooting the same thing was done, let's look magnify the troubled minds of the killers to avoid the real issue. This is guy isn't the only one who's got problems in the US or other countries in the world. There are countless paranoid,delusional, mentally unstable individuals in this world who may have it against everyone. However, such school shootings and rampages, are only happening in the US. For me there is one simply reason....the availability of guns, the loose gun control, and the glorification of the gun culture in the US. I've been told that young boy scouts are taught how to fire guns since early adolescence. As to why that is necessary I will never understand.
How about facing the real issue hands on. When people drive cars, that are a potentially dangerous item to the safety of others and that of the driver, a license is needed, how about creating a license for carrying a gun, I don't mean a permit and all, but going through a course to learn how to use the weapon and somewhere were qualified personnel can screen individuals if they are right to get such a license or not. I think it was pachipro who said that this couldn't be avoided and many of you have said this as well... pachipro was even listing the different possible scenarios that the killer here could have used to attack the school. He mentioned making bombs or using gasoline and so forth. I tend to disagree. It is not the same. Carrying out such other activities requires more planning, more effort, more conciousness, while buying a gun like you are buying milk can be done in a whim and then slowly simmer the thoughts and ideas of carrying out such a spree. I think also this has become a learned behavior. There are so many precedents that now every other possible future school shooter has already a written scenario to follow.
Those of you who are for the right to bear arms and what not can deny it all you want, but let's face it using a gun is the easiest way to kill someone; I doubt this guy could have done this much havoc if he had a knife or had to use alternative methods...
There is no political or societal will in the US to make amends to this problem; something could have been done, had to be done, after columbine, and now 32 young people close to age are gone. It's easy to say that oh this is horrible, oh this is sad, but unless you are affected directly by this tragedy you can never know the real pain and sadness. To have young people be killed like this needlessly, people with hope, dreams, potential, important to others and so forth, is just such an incredible for lack of better terms "waste"
In Italy a couple of months ago a police commissioner was killed during a riot after a soccer game. Right away stadiums were closed for months until they became safe, some will remained closed for months to come, new laws were put in place to curb such violence; real action was taken. Making memorials and having flags flying half mast doesn't suffice. It's really a dishonor to the memory of those fallen in this incident to still do nothing about this issue. I don't like to jab at the US but I mean when the country's vice president shoots someone in the face during a hunting trip and all talk show hosts make jokes, fun, and light of the situation what is to be expected? Perhaps the men in power and other influential media prevalent personalties should start to give the right example by making campaigns for careful gun use...or no gun use at all and such things like that.
And I'm not going to accept the usual "you don't understand, this is an american thing, the right to bear arms and all".......yeah right. Since this is the Japan forum just a little example. Japan had such a deep sword culture that society was even built upon it, some could argue, and when reforms came they forced a ban on it and it worked. I'm not saying to ban guns and all, but something strong can be done, there is just no will.
