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Please say a prayer for the victims families that lost their loved ones while attending class at VT. Its a darn shame this world has to have so many idiots. Why didn't this coward just jump off a bridge or hang himself instead of taking such young innocent people with him.

It's sad the news media is consumed with the Anna Nicole inheritance and Don Imus's stupid joke and doesn't seem to care at all about really important issues that are causing things like this.

Burden, I couldn't agree with you more. Such a meaningless slaughter of human life. How the family and friends of the dead must feel, and will feel the rest of their lives. And, for what?

Burden, having just read that the shooter was "troubled" and had once been referred to counseling, I agree with your post even more. The number of people out there who suffer from mental illness and/or alcohol or drug problems is beyond staggering, and while our society pays lip-service to those problems, the actual programs that exist are woefully underfunded and, for most people, inadequate. One would think the richest naton in the history of the world would be able to spend an adequate amount of money to identify and properly treat troubled people. But you're right, short of a Britney Spears enterong rehab, it seems people would rather talk about Don Imus or Anna Nicole Smith and every other non-issue, rather than things like health care, adequate jobs, and the like. Now, I realize some would disagree, and I accept their right to. Since this is a sports forum, I'll let it go with that.

Quote:it seems people would rather talk about Don Imus or Anna Nicole Smith and every other non-issue, rather than things like health care, adequate jobs, and the like. Now, I realize some would disagree, and I accept their right to. Since this is a sports forum, I'll let it go with that.

What do you mean "non-issue"?. These 2 people are examples of people in chronic need of rehab. Talk about "troubled minds." They are/were real sickos also. just a touch of levity and a pinch of truth. I agree with you..

I'm just "glad" Kurt Vonnegut didn't live to see this. He had been preaching, both in fiction and non-fiction, for decades about the horror of senseless violence in a universe that seems both cruel and random, and about the need for somebody, anybody, to do domething, anything, about lonelieness and people feeling so removed from basic human needs that any amount of senseless cruelty is possible. At least the loss of life at Kent State on May 4, 1970, makes some "sense" in terms of the politics of the times. The fact that 32, or whatever, people lost their lives in a senseless, totally meaningless, act of carnage by one against his fellow human beings is yet another horror that is beyond comprehension. To quote my favorite author , the late Kurt Vonnegut, "Want to know something? We're still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages, they haven't ended yet."