ALL KIDS SHOULD BE PROTECTED CAREFULLY.
I was having breakfast this morning. My roommate asked me a question instead of saying 'morning': "have you heard that there was another shooting this morning?" -- the shooting in Portland is the first one this week. "No.. What?! Another one?" "Yea.. Kids killed in an elementary school in Connecticut this morning..."
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I mean... really? Two shootings in one week, when it is less than two weeks before Christmas? The first one is bad enough: shooting in Macy's, a shopping mall in which people pick holiday gifts happily. However, the second one is incredibly outrageous: shooting in an elementary school where most kids are younger than 10!! Honestly, I don't care if the suspect had multi-personality disorder or whatever mental injures he had, it is just UNFORGIVABLE.
On the other site of the world, China, where I was born and raised, just witnessed a similar crime. A psycho injured 20+ school children with knife. This is just a story as sad as the one happened in Connecticut. No matter how retarded the suspect is, this kind of behavior is just UNFORGIVABLE.
I am not trying to discuss "which one is worse". When everyone is mourning for the children killed in Connecticut, very few people know that there was another bunch of children, who were just suffering the same pain. Even for Chinese people who live in mainland China, not too many of them know the tragedy. Of course it is not the mass's fault. The fault is the government's.
I don't understand why 20+ children injured in their motherland by some mental would be something that the media didn't dare to expose. If you didn't reveal the whole story to your people, why would you reveal a similar story that happened in another country? Do you think losing your own children does not compare to the lost of another country's children? You disguised the truth because you didn't want people to know. You are afraid that your people are going to "wake up" and act against you. You are trying to make up a pretty lie that everyone is enjoying their life. But that's not how it works. Only when the mass are told there are problems in the country, they will get involved in the discussions and movements about how to make the country healthier and safer for our children. If they didn't see anything, they won't know there are issues and they won't actually be part of the country.
I think the best way for a country to express its concern and respect to its people is to LET THEM KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. They deserve the truth. In this case, the children who were injured in China deserve sympathy and extra care and their parents deserve comfort and aid.
When we are sending out thoughts to the lives that went to heaven, please think about the ones who just suffered the same tragedy but were hidden.
They ALL deserve to be remembered.
Summer Fang
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