What's going on in the world today?

Well like most North Americans yesterday, I watched in shock (well I don't know if it was shock or just frustration) as the events at Virgina Tech unfolded. End state...33 lives lost, thousands changed forever. It's sad to think that all those bright futures were taken, well now all the families have are memories. What a waste! I was reading the newspaper today and it was the same old thing...people blaming the police for not acting accordingly. If I'm not mistaken it was the police running the opposite direction from everyone else, towards the shooter. Do the people that write these stories really think for one second that the police wanted this to happen? I don't. The people that write these articles are some of the counties brightest writers, so why don't they write something intelligent? Write about how some mental health issues are the leading cause of violence in society today. Write about how our health system that is in place for dealing with persons with mental health issues is failing them and us. Maybe write about the person that was behind the gun(s) and caused this to take place. I remember a few years ago well working a zero tolerance initiative in the downtown core of the city my partner and I heard a distress call come over the air...officer has been shot at! Without even blinking every officer in the area raced towards that location....knowing the person they were after didn't care for anyones life. The scariest person you can deal with! No remorse for anything. Anyways one of the officers had a gun pulled on him and placed to his head...then the trigger was pulled. All because he was trying to escort this individual out of the establishment. Worth a life? I don't think so, but that's the kind of person he was dealing with. Long story short, the following day the local papers pointed some blame on the two officers that went inside the establishment to remove this individual. They stated they knew the kind of person they were dealing with so they should have been more prepared. Can you imagine what the papers would have said if he went in with his gun pulled and "ask the individual to leave". This blog is meant to shine light on the fact that a tragedy occurred yesterday that will forever change thousands of lives but let's not jump the gun (maybe a bad choose of words) and point blame on those individuals that were there to help. After everyones had time to digest this situation and only then if there is something that could have been done differently it should be addressed. I think it's important to remember that with a campus of that size even if a mass email was sent warning everyone this tragedy still would have occurred. Many students may not have read there email, many people on campus don't have email and lastly, when you have a person who is deranged you can have all the precautions you want in place to prevent this sort of situation but at the end of the day no precaution is perfect and for that very reason situations like this continue to occur. There are a lot of what ifs...what if this person was on their medications...what if his girlfriend didn't break up with him...what if our health system didn't fail him? My heart cries for those who were lost in this tragic event and those who are now left to suffer the rest of their lives. God bless each and everyone of them. I can only hope that the ones lost yesterday didn't suffer, and now the ones left to morn them can find strength from within to not suffer to much themselves.