sorta OT... about the Virginia Tech events.

As any immigrant; I like to keep informed on what happens in my homecountry. It's a need I think everyone that is far away has; to know what's going on at home. Besides; I've always enjoyed watching the news or reading them; even if it's only the headlines; I like to keep myself informed on what is going on in the world.

Today, as my daily routine, I went to "El Universal" to read the news on Mexico; and I found those horrible news about the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech University, at the USA, news link in english here. I find myself pretty disturbed; I find it horrible, the fact that someone can come to the University and kill 33 people, and injure several more. The fact that you can't be safe, not even in your own classroom, and you are at risk of getting killed by some mad man that comes with some guns and fire with no mercy it's unbelievable; it's a saddening experience. The US has had several criminal attacks and murders at schools; horrible thing. One of the things I think that make cases like this happen is the fact that people, specially in the US is the easy access that people have to weapons, in this case firearms adn their respective munitions. There are some countries that the access to guns isn't so obvious, but still youth gets an easy access to them, because their parents or relatives dont have the necessary measures to make it hard to get an access to them; often forgetting the guns are loaded, or just put in some shelf and then saying "I thought my son didn't know it was there". You always have to take extra measures for security if you plan on giving people access to weapons, or have one at home. It doesn't matter if we are talking about the government or at your own home; the access to weapons should be harder. The government should restrict more the access to firearms and to bullets; make it harder for people to have one, by this way making sure that people that have a weapon at home are responsible enough to have one; and prevent the kind of accidents when the life of a person is threatened.

My condolences and my thoughts are with the families and friends of the people who lost their lives today. I am very shocked by the news. I am so glad that in Uruguay you dont have to deal with cases like the one at Virginia Tech, and I can be pretty much sure that there's not going to come some crazy guy with a gun and fire at random or aim at me or any of my classmates or teachers and I can study safely; but you never know; the world is a crazy one, and being away from my family and friends, I can't help to think on what would happen, that I need to take care; because I never know how things would be, when will they know, how would they act. It's a delicate subject.