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The Glorification of Violence

Apr . 19 . 2007
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I can’t help but wonder with all the press the Virginia Tech massacre is getting, is it in some way glorifying violence maybe for a small angry group of youth? I sympathize that the victim’s families and friends are suffering incredible pain and I give all my prayers and hopes for them – but with the recent news that Cho Seung-Hui mailed a package to NBC its sounds as if maybe the publicity was intentional – as if it was his moment to put his name in history books.

Maybe he felt so alone and so ignored for such a long time, that this was a way for him to get the attention he always wanted. I don’t know… We all try to just understand the simple question… Why? I just can’t fathom how someone could do something so terrible.

Even that I write about it on my little blog adds fuel to the fire, but when he cited “martyrs like Eric and Dylan” — apparently a reference to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenagers who killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., eight years ago this coming Friday. I have to ask? Is the fact that this is getting so much press going to entice some other youth to follow the same path?

Are there others whom see this violence as martyrdom? I want to throw up with the thought.

Media is changing thanks to the internet and technology. The way news moves through the internet and the ability for anyone to be their own broadcaster is here, today. This instant coverage is different than it was of years past.

Regardless, we have to stand together and in sharing the grief – my biggest hope is that it will touch lives and prevent future violence, not glorify it.

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  • http://www.pauljohns.com Paul

    Yeah, I was just thinking about this tonight. I think that the less social interaction that you have, the further into your own mind you go. some people can handle this, and others lose touch of reality. If we really love someone who is like this, we will listen to their problems, and let them know they need to get help.

    My $00.02.

  • Don

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  • Moogie

    I don’t wish to belittle was has happend to the students. It is the way our media focuses on a story and beats it to death.
    The week before it was Imus, next week it will something else.

    There is so much going on in this world that needs our attention, our media however seems to only focus on one thing. This is why some of our people come across as stupid.
    For the most part though there is no interst nor is there any attention paid to things that are truly important.