Well this might sound weird coming from someone who never played 1984 but...

We have just experienced Hate Week.

With all these deaths and shootings goin on, it's unmistakeable, and I have imbeded it in my mind forever.

Last night I went to a shooting range with some friends, it was at the police station.

Apparently either my aim or the gun's aim sucks XD.

While I was helping clean up the spent casings afterwards, I picked up a casing and put it in my pcoket, no one would miss it.

Hoever I also found a, for whatever reason, unsued and live bullet, and in a moment of rebellion I picked it up, put it in my pocket, and took it home.

I'm looking at it now, it's S&W 9mm 40 cal. round, flat tipped with a copper bullet.

I'm in awe, and almost sickened, by the fact that something so small can kill you.

This week already has 2 anneversaries. The Oaklahoma City bombing, and the Colombine High School shooting by Timothy McVeigh and Eric Harris and Dylan Kebold respectivly.

On Monday, Cho Seung-hui was added to that list as he shot up Virginia Tech in a blidn rage, killing 32 before turning the guns on himself.

I know why he did it, the tapes tell the story. Like Harris and Kebold he was cast out, abused, and often ignored by others. He hated rich kids (which I kinda do as well, but not ot that extent), snobs, and other people becuase he was abused by them.

But the difference between him and the Colombine shooters is that there was something terribly wrong with this man. We may never know what it was, but he finally jsut snapped, compared himself to Jesus Christ and shot up the whole place.

Since then a series of similar incidents have hit America (a gunman killed a hostage and himself a few hours ago at the Johson Space Center in Houston, TX), and it sickens me in alot of cases.

See alot of kids are threatening schools recently with "repeats of Virginia Tech." If you are one such person who has or is planning to, I have a message for you.

Don't.

At one time it was a joke, but this is a different world now, and I know personally that threats agianst the school are no joke.

Last fall. my school received not 1 but 2 bomb threats in one week. We were shocked that someone could make these threats. Despite tighter security on the day the 2nd bomb was to go off, a number of students, including myself, did not attend that day.

It's not mid-April and they STILL have not found the perps.

This is what is disgusting about school security. There virtually is none. We have measures that were put in place after Colombine to prevent another shooting, but these shootings are still going on.

At JSC today, when the call was made that there was a gunman inside, there was an imediate evauation of the buidling he was allegedly in, and 2 schools nearby went on lockdown.

At Virginia Tech, 2 hours passed between the first shooting and the next, and there was almost no response at all. The building was evacuated, it wasn't put on lockdown, nothing.

Bottom line is that aside from much needed reforms in school security, this week was not a good one for the United States of America.

All our prejudice and hate just seemed to exploded in our own bloddy version of Hate Week. I hope that when next week rolls around, that cooler heads will prevail and we can rebuild and recover.

"If the sun comes up tomorrow, it is only because of men of good will. And that's... That's all there is between us and the devil."

-Kenny O'Donnell, Thirteen Days.