Vigil for Virginia Tech University

The reality of coming to grasp with the Virginia shooting is still trying to sink in for most people. Flags in the US have been ordered by the President George W. Bush to fly half mask. It is really a sad and tragic incident which occured on Monday. In lectures today at UH Manoa the first topic of discussion was the shooting at Viriginia Tech and avenues for counselling for students if they are distressed.

The topic on the control of guns has also resurfaced in the US. Hawaii has been categorized last year as the second most safest state. Gun laws in Hawaii is relatively very strict.

More on the topic--I think it's an interesting juxtapostion when the Dateline NBC reporter asked his collegue who just returned from Iraq about how he felt about the dealths there and the recent massacre at Vtec. Although his response was not quite satisfactory to me, I think lives regardless of where we are from and our nationality, human beings should be more concerned in the protection of lives. The perspective of the American public to the loss of lives in the States might be different from the daily loss of lives in places such as Iraq, I am talking about civilian lives, the US government should do more to protect human lives as it does with its citizens. I sympathize with everyone who lost loved ones. And the recent incident at Vtec is something for the US government to seriously mull over the use of firearms either it be within the country or in terms of the military whose effect on ordinary lives is inexplicable.