Amitabh Jotwani

It was a sad day today at Virginia Tech University. 31 lives (so far…) have been lost to an insane shooting spree at the university’s campus this morning…very sad indeed…

Now this statement would probably not go down well with a lot of people…but I am gonna say it nevertheless – I wasn’t as shocked…as most people…with the kind of control that the US govt has on the selling of guns and other weapons…this was almost always on the cards…just waiting to happen….

The weapons are so easily available to virtually anybody – anybody who has no criminal record and has a valid ID…u just walk into Walmart in some cases and get your hands on one of em…it’s almost as easy as buying a candy!

It appears as if the US weapon policy is a result of an arrogance, an over confidence in the system…that the system can do go wrong…that the people who get the guns can do no wrong…what needs to be realized is that people do crazy things when they go crazy…why increase the chances of them hurting other people….this has clearly been proved with the shooting this morning..if not already in the past…the DC sniper brings back more hurtful memories…

The innocent kids shot dead cannot come back…and the heart goes out to their parents…it’s about time the country takes a hard look at the guns and firearm policy…