Just a thought

Nearly everyday, there is a headline about 30, 40, 50, 169 people killed in another country, namely Iraq (which goes to show that those atrocities in other countries don't even rate a headline), through some kind of bomb... and they are very low profile headlines... nothing that sticks out and tries to grab the attention, tries to elicit sympathies... there aren't pictures of the families mourning or troops securing the area. So while I think that the VA Tech shootings are horrific, I find it appalling that we pay no attention to the same tragedies that are befallen other countries. The situtation might be considered different... a campus isn't a war zone, at least not in a militaristic sense. We are immune to violence, yet enthralled with it and when it happens close to home, to something we can see and understand, it is memorialized. It's just a thought, but one that makes me wonder how we can so apathetically overlook worse atrocities just because the culture is foreign, just because the religion isn't Christian, just because it happens in a place most people can't point to on a map.