While we NUS/NTU/SMU students are busy mugging at home and in schools for the upcoming exams, the US witnessed another school shooting, this time, in Virginia Tech, leaving 33 dead and many more wounded. Virginia Tech is a state university in USA, in the state of Virginia.

Links to the above news can be found here, here and here.

While it is not known whether the gunman was a student of the school, it really raises a brow over the security within the campus, as well as the fact that the US allows (almost) any tom, dick or harry to trot a gun.

Seemingly, innocents die whilst some person with a perfectly insane mind goes about in a rampage hunting them down with the very weapons the government allows for. Initially used for self-protection, it sure has taken on a new meaning and use.

RIP to those who died there.

On top of that, what drew me to this was that there were 2 shootings in the very same school - at a student dorm and in an engineering building.

Imagine something like this happens in NUS now. Gosh. How many of us would mistake the shots as that of crow-culling, and the fire-siren (if used) as "just another exercise"??

Maybe if it happens, the top half of the bell curve would be gone. Ehh...isn't that a great idea for all those who are struggling to keep afloat? What a thought.

On top of that, a rumour is circulating that someone killed him/her-self...stressed over studying. Could it be stress which lead to such an act? An act of outrage, of criminal proportions?

Luckily, Singapore has a law against guns, but then again, you can't really stop someone from messing around with 2 huge choppers finding each and every NUS student studying along the benches right? Hehs.

Maybe, that's why they have our Security Uncles. Hopefully, we are safe enough, else, why do I pay so much in school fees for?!

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