the struggle back to normalcy, whatever that looks like...

It's not like I expect people to want to talk about the shooting rampage that took place at Virginia Tech, but for the love of Christ, at least acknowledge the state of the world that we're all living in. How is it possible to NOT know what took place yesterday? How do you miss the headline "33 people shot dead"? Contrastingly, there are those who have been all too keen to take up the discussion pertaining to the shooter's status as "a resident alien." I think we all know where that conversation is going to wind up: lots of racialized kafuffle in relation to immigration, temporary and permanent residency in the States.

Then there is that other conversation that is inevitable, the one pertaining to America's second amendment. Virginia Govenor Tim Kaine stated in a press conference that this is not the time to discuss gun control issues and anyone who attempts to do so at this moment would merely be engaging in political hoopla, so to speak. If the deaths of 33 people don't warrant a discussion or at least an attempt to put gun control issues back on the map, then by golly george I don't know what it will take. In social services, especially in the cases of child protection concerns, you don't wait til the house goes on fire to intervene. The shootings that took place at Virginia Tech was a mutha-fucking inferno.

Maybe I'm just finding a reason to be pissed off and a reason to hate on something because to tell you the truth, I'm just a selfish paranoid android who fears for my own life in addition to feeling like the world sucks and would prefer not to have my friends, family or future kids wind up with bullets through their bodies.

I feel this way and I'm not even American.