Virginia Tech

I feel the need to comment on the massacre on the Virginia Tech campus. I write this from the prospectus of someone who knows people who would do this. As complicated as it seems, it is really easy for me to understand. I see these behaviors everyday, and to put a difficult situation in very easy to understand terms, it is simply this, evil people do evil things. I know that really sounds simple, and almost disrespectful, but it is true. You see, evil people do evil things because it fulfils a self need. Evil people need to see evil. They need to see suffering, pain and all the emotions associated with it. It is our non-evil society that as to struggle with these things. As a person who doesn't enjoy seeing evil things, as I see it 40+ hours a week, I can not understand the need for our country to show all the evil in the world. It really does add fuel to an already burning fire.

The young man who did all the shooting on the VT campus that day wanted to create a situation filled with emotion and distress. His actions have become constant conversation in all media's. He has been able to broadcast his "message" for all to see, for all to examine. The sad thing about our instant information age is that there are other evil people out there, who given the opportunity, would have to figure out a way to do better.

Many will talk about what went wrong, who did or didn't act accordingly, why, his mental health, the police's role, the college's participation, and so on and so on. It may never stop. But I know these people, the one who bites off her own child penis just to watch the young boy bleed to death, or the mother upset at the father, so she kills, butchers and cooks the flesh and feeds the young man to the father. To anyone who may stumble across this, please remember that evil people do evil things, and they are to blame, period.

To the families of the dead and victimized, I wish you a speedy recovery in your healing. I hope that your life will not be defined by this event, but I can understand if it is. This is an unpreventable event. There is no answer to why, or why my child, or what could I have done. There are hundreds of millions of Americans, who are good and kind citizens, but the actions of one doesn't diminish what is good in us all. There will always be evil in the world, and it is that evil that will create these events. We can only keep doing what we do, being good and kind citizen, and know that evil people do evil things, no matter what we do.