"Today on the Today Show, a man shoots and kills
7 people at NorthWestern Illinois University,
Wounding 17 others..."
My Television spouts this trash at me at Seven in the Morning.
I am getting ready for school myself at [Unidentified] High, but
this message sends a chill down my spine. We all have to be afraid.
Afraid to walk the halls of our own schools.
Afraid to walk the halls of our own Lives.
"...Before Turning the gun on himself..."
Somehow I wish we could go back to the good old days, when suicides where
you take a bunch of innocent people with you weren't so trendy.
Does that makes me a bad person?
There used to be a time when one could go years in between a school shooting.
Now we are lucky if we go months.
Sometimes I wonder how close to home things like this are. Just a few weeks
ago somebody stenciled the words "[Undisclosed] is a bitch" on to my desk.
Some people want to blame Video Games.
Some people want to blame Movies.
It's so much easier to say 'Oh, those Brainwashed him', than to say that
society itself is messed up, People don't take care of each other, Teachers
aren't in Control, There is rampant Bullying, and No parents at home because
they have to work two jobs.
After Staring at the stenciled words in my desk, I wonder how long it will
be before we have...
"...The Shooter Burst into the Classroom with a loaded shotgun, and a pistol,
unloading two shots into the audience..."
My mind wanders as I make a note in my head to say hello to [Undisclosed],
and tell her that she's alright by me. Maybe it's just one person, but who
knows.
I hear the rampant sounds on the television, but my eyes lie outside.
In the outside world, where I have to be afraid. I look up in the sky...
"...And now to Al for the Weather" |
Submission Name: Today, On the Today Show
