News headlines are back to political talks. This is GREAT news, because much of such news can be ignored. That also means there are no more cold blooded killers stealing the headlines, for now.
The Virginia Tech massacre occupied the headlines for America for the last couple weeks. In Hong Kong, the cause-of-death trial of the cold blooded policeman who stole a colleague's gun and killing 3 occupied the headlines there.
The question is this: just what are the killers thinking? What is the motive? Sometimes, there is no clear motive.
We may never fully understand the mind of the killer, or we may as well become one.
In the Virginia Tech killer "manifesto" video, we know he WANTED to be heard, though he appears to be a poor kid with autism most of the time. He want to solve the problem of being picked on by rich kids by killing them. Yet he doesn't quite understand his "solution" gets him nowhere except his own death, along with 30+ innocent people. Unfortunately, the poor kid does not realize there are ways to be heard, without just broadcasting your last words.
The killer HongKong cop appeared in a pro-democracy protest in HongKong. He wanted a full democratic election for Chief Executive. He also wanted to be heard. Well the communists aren't going to let this happen easily. So in his notes he revealed that he has been following some government officials. It is still not clear what's the motive of killing some of his fellow policemen. Perhaps it is just showing he is capable of doing things others are not capable of? Like stealing colleagues guns? One perplexing question in his notes was this age-old question: "What's the purpose of my life?"
Not everyone is going to read and praise the hot selling "The Purpose-Driven Life". I don't know if that particular book could help him. Obviously he didn't know his purpose. So he took the "superman" approach. He was going to solve problem in his own way.
So the killers are poor lost souls who don't realize what's their life's purpose, and therefore wasted his own life, and that of other poor victims', and broke hearts of the families.
There are many ways to solve problems and often it does not involve violence. Unfortunately these minds simply don't find such solutions, and they have guns.
They want to be heard. I wish they talk out their concerns and had some listening ears to go to and prevented tragic shootings. But, everyone has their own issues, you are lucky if you can find someone to listen to you.
Part of life is to learn to deal with issues peacefully. After all, this is not quite a perfect world and things don't always go our way. We must realize this. Kill all those we don't like is not a solution because killing them all will involve killing yourself. What good does that do if you're dead?
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