More College Killings in the States

In one of the deadliest shootings in US history, a lone gunman shot and killed 32 people before killing himself. It is the worst bloodbath in a college or university in the United States. When I first saw the headlines, I felt total shock, and then almost immediately a sense and question mark of - what again?

Why is it that this kind of occurrence seems to be almost anticipated. Possibly this is because it has happened in the States before. On several occasions some mad shooter has entered a school and let loose. It was only recently that the Amish school that was most recently attacked, has been rebuilt and reopened to children.

United States News

The media attention has been huge. Prime Ministers and heads of state have indicated their condolences and regrets. And I agree with these, never one to belittle this kind of tragedy. But then, the next bit of news coming from Iraq is that 157 are confirmed dead in Baghdad, where a market was bombed. This bomb immediately torched market stalls and engulfed the market, vehicles and people. It is anticipated that the death toll will be much higher due to the large numbers of injured people.

I haven't seen the same media attention focused on this atrocity in Baghdad as has been on the college deaths. Why is it that 157 innocent civilian deaths, killed while shopping at a market, do not create the same media hype? Are the lives of 33 college students more important than 157 Kurdish and Shia people who happen to be shopping at the time in a market? Are their deaths not as wanton and senseless?

It seems to me that in the media and amongst politicians, deaths in Iraq are of no consequence anymore. They have become so common place that nobody blinks when outrageous numbers such as at the Baghdad market, are killed. But when a group of students in America get killed then it is beyond hysteria in the media.

Possibly those grieving people who have lost their young sons and daughters or knew them as friends or co-students, might just in their pain and suffering remember that Iraqi people feel the same when their loved ones are senselessly killed. There is no difference between a student being killed and a person at a market in Baghdad. If the world would actually understand this, this horrific senseless stupid war in Iraq would be stopped.

More College Killings in the States