The wise saying of a saintly man was that “Nations cannot be reformed without the reformation of its youth” and we are bearing witness to this statement in our daily lives. After every little while it seems that there is a new shooting that takes place at some school that outdoes a previous school shooting.
The Virginia Tech Massacre, that occurred on April 16, 2007, marked the new worst school shooting in American history.
Why are there so many guns in the hands of wrong people? Why is power in the hands of wrong people? Well, both these questions are linked together. If nations will not focus on the reformation of its youth, how do they expect to reform themselves when the present and future also lies within the hands of their youth?
Today kids are roaming killing one another in schools for their own problems, tomorrow who knows what extent they will go to.
The Economist states:
The difference, as everyone knows but no one in authority was saying this week, is that in America such individuals have easy access to weapons of terrible destructive power. Cho killed his victims with two guns, one of them a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a rapid-fire weapon that is available only to police in virtually every other country, but which can legally be bought over the counter in thousands of gun-shops in America. There are estimated to be some 240m guns in America, considerably more than there are adults, and around a third of them are handguns, easy to conceal and use. Had powerful guns not been available to him, the deranged Cho would have killed fewer people, and perhaps none at all.
More thought and effort should go into focusing on programs to keep the youth busy in intellectual activities rather than having them waste time thinking of how to hurt others. The amount of money that is being spent towards the wars in the Middle East should be put towards better use in helping further one’s own civilization rather than destroy it by not focusing on the youth. It is crucial for the betterment of society that we focus on the moral upbringing of our children.
Yes, 33 people were killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, but does anyone care to notice how many die each day in Iraq? Why would we? It’s a matter of proximity, right!? Well, regardless, they are also people, just like us and we should stand up to the cruelties they are having to deal with.
