What happens next

What happens next. What to do to make sure there is not another Viriginia Tech (didn't we say that after Columbine too).

There will be many questions about the way Cho Seung Hui was able to get the guns he used. (Here's a link to the story about the very strange package that he sent to NBC news. He mailed it between shootings) The unfortunate thing is that it is extremely unlikely that the Virginia legislature will do anything to restrict access to guns. If anything, the agrument will be advanced that if more people had guns they'd have been able to protect themselves against this guy.

The much tougher issue to look at is why people feel compelled to do such things. Ever notice that just about all of these major shootings are done by males. (In fact I can’t think of one that hasn’t been done by a man. )

Why is that?

What in the society so alienates or angers these guys? What conditioning in society makes it so that the only way these guys know how to express or solve the pain they have is through anger, rage and violence. That’s a much harder problem to solve than passing real gun control (and that ain't going to be easy either). It will take lots of thinking and a very radical shift within American society (or any society for that matter). In other words, it will be really hard.

The accessibility of guns makes the ability to do something like this, killing so many people, much easier. But there are much harder questions that also need to be answered to solve this problem. Until we do something about both of these, events like this will continue to happen.