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Gus2/19/2010 12:27:29 am PST

re: #28 freetoken

Hey… psych evals for students too!

Sometimes I wonder if people ever stopped to think about what happened at Virginia Tech. Not to stop and think to make self-interested gestures to help them attain a well lit place in the afterlife but to stop and think about the slaughter, maiming and bloodshed that took place on that day. That event was a nightmare beyond any of my wildest. 32 people shot and killed by one crazed young man within minutes. Shot dead like wild animals; an event not unlike those we’ve seen in wars.

And it didn’t begin with Virginia Tech. Nor did it end with Virginia Tech. It seems as though every other month there is a mass shooting of some type involving any type of perpetrator and victim. What happened after Virginia Tech? Not much of anything unless one counts rhetoric. The school settled for 11 million dollars for the slaughter of 32 people which is about 2.9 million dollars per person.