Thursday, April 26, 2007
Should the US gunman video be broadcasted?
The Virginia massacre that happened last Monday had brought about much controversy worldwide.
The killer, Cho Seung-Hui, killed a total of 33, including himself. A few days later, Cho's ghastly videos and images that he sent to NBC News on Monday,was broadcasted worldwide. In the videos, were reasons to his rampage. He spoke of his griefvance and said that his suicide was to 'inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people'.
I think that the video should not have been broadcasted. Although the video did provided some answer to his massacre, I think that it is too cruel to broadcast it. For the families of the victims, the video serves no excuse for the man's demeanor. Instead, the disturbing images just creates anger and inflict more pain on the kins.
Also, the video serves as an 'encouragement' to those who have the same idea as Cho. It is to be reminded that his video was supposedly, to 'inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people' What if someone took it for real and follow his footsteps? More innocent people would be killed.
To the public, the video serves as a medium to understand the man. But what probably would be left behind in the peoples' mind, would be the trauma of it all. People will probably forget about what he said in the video and only remember him holding two guns and pointing it to the camera. In the end, the public is still ignorant of what is happening to their society; why are there so much bloodshed in their community?; why are there more than eleven thousand of people killed by gunshots in the United States yearly?
i caught a bumblebee at Thursday, April 26, 2007
