[人在他鄉]自由的代價

若幹年前 , 還是學生的我曾經在一個飄雪的日子裏遊曆了那所美麗的小城和校園 , 學校不大 , 可是規整有序 , 寧靜而致遠 , 如果是在秋高氣爽的季節裏 , 校園肯定會五彩斑斕地美麗 , 因為它地靠落基山脈 , 山清水秀 , 有著得天獨厚的條件 , 然而今天 , 從來就默默無聞的這個小城 , 卻一躍登上美國各大媒體的頭版頭條 , 讓世人在不安和焦慮中度過了難忘的一天 .

                                  Massacre At Virginia Tech

More than 30 people were killed Monday in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, according to university officials -- making it the deadliest school shooting incident in U.S. history. Virginia Tech President Charles Steger called the killings "a tragedy of monumental proportions."

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Before Monday, the deadliest mass shooting occurred in 1991, when George Hennard drove a pickup truck into a Killeen, Texas, cafeteria and fatally shot 23 people, before shooting and killing himself.

The deadliest school shootings came in 1966 and 1999. In the former, Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine, killed 13 people on the University of Texas campus. He was killed by police.

In 1999, 17-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18-year-old Eric Harris -- armed with guns and pipe bombs -- killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.

美國校園裏接二連三的槍擊事件聽起來毛骨悚然也讓人不寒而栗, 說到底還是立法者沒有嚴格進行槍支管理造成的隱患. 隻要沒有犯罪記錄的成年公民都有權買槍, 這種過度的自由對整個社會的安全都是極大的考驗. 類似這樣的事件絕非以後能夠防微杜漸. 無論是什麽民族,種族, 文化, 國家, 隻要有人的存在, 就會有各種各樣的社會問題.

 

前陣子田納西州一個33歲三個小孩的母親槍殺了她當傳教士的先生, 盡管她陳列了許多他們婚姻不為人知的內在問題, 她最後也禁不住承認她當時”Ugly came out”. 這種人性的UGLY是無法預測的. 沒有法律的約束和限製, 就會有無數的UGLY蹦出來. 立法者直到現在還在避重就輕, 沒有采取任何措施, 終有一天是要為這種自由付出慘重的代價的.