Sadness.

It is hard to look at the images from the Virgina Tech shooting - and there is no answer to the biggest question....

WHY?

Reading the opinions here, it makes a bit sad to think that this is how other countries see the United States. But nothing makes me more sad than to think of those poor young students, and the fear they must have experienced. May God Bless them and their families.

From the London Times....
"Perhaps of all the elements of American exceptionalism – those factors, positive or negative, that make the US such a different country, politically, socially, culturally, from the rest of the civilised world – it is the gun culture that foreigners find so hard to understand.

The country’s religiosity, so at odds with the rest of the developed world these days; its economic system which seems to tolerate vast disparities of income; even all those strange sports Americans enjoy – all of these can at least be understood by the rest of us, even if not shared.

But why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?"
article link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article1662949.ece