Aping the West...Way to go....

Date: April 2oth 1999

Place: Columbine High School, Jefferson County, Colorado

Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.

Date: December 11th 2007

Place: Euro International School, Gurgaon, Haryana

A 14 year old Student, Abhishek Tyagi was shot dead by his classmates. He was shot 5 times including one on his temple and two on his chest from close range.

Well...overall it seems like we are about 8 years behind the western civilization. Whom do we blame for this? For the blaming game on the former incident, watch Micheal Moore's "Bowling for Columbine". He blames everyone (and most of them rightly so) from Lockheed and Martin to Kmart for what happened in the Columbine High School.

A bit more details on the incident in our own backyard. The 2 murderers (Yeah I know they are minors. But what they did was murder. So don't expect me to take their age into account) are sons of a prominent real estate developer. They had a fight with the dead boy. They are in the eighth standard. Who has not fought with their classmates in eighth standard? Now it gets interesting...Their father had a licensed revolver which that dumb witted idiotic son of a bitch used to leave on,of all the places, the TV Trolley and that too with live ammunition. The kids having enough exposure to our Prime time television to know what a gun does and how to pull the trigger, saw an easy way to settle the fight. They smuggled the revolver into the school by hiding it in their socks. Remember how cool the hero looks when he pulls out a pistol out of his ankle holster? No wonder they wanted to do it too. Then they hid the pistol in the bath room and waited for the school to end. Once the school left, they got the gun out and it was bang bang time. The first boy shot the victim 4 times and handed the gun to his brother who shot him once more for good measure.

What really shocked me was all the planning that went into the act. Sure we have settled fights when we were kids. We have gone to the extent of letting the air out of our antagonist's cycle tire. But the cyber age kids are a really different breed I guess. Having grown up on a healthy diet of violent television and FPS(first person shooter) video games, pulling a trigger didnt seem like a big deal to them. Eighth standard is not a time when you have full grasp of the concept of life and death. For all I know, they thought that if they shot him enough times, he would turn to dust like the enemies do in their video games. But still, the thought that went into the action was apalling.

So tell me, whom do we blame? Do we blame the kids? I don't know. I am not able to even grasp at their mind set when they thought of doing such a thing. Do we blame the school for not keeping a closer eye on their students? Well who would ever have thought of finding a gun in an eighth standard student's bag? The worst they could have imagined would have been an issue of debonair/chastity or a pack of cigarettes. But a gun? No way. There is one person whom I can blame without a shadow of doubt. The moron of a father that these kids have. You have 2 kids studying in 8th standard who have just begun experiencing life and are willing to try anything. You have a loaded gun. Leave it on the TV trolley where the kids watch their television every day. Good call Stupid. Guns and 8th standard kids don't mix well together.

This post might seem a little different than my usual posts. That is because this was a venting out of rage or frustration whatever you would like to call it. I somehow cannot digest the fact that two kids planned to this extent to take the life of their classmate. I really feel sorry for all the parents. What assurance do they have that their kids are safe at school? The world is getting less safer by the minute. In another 5-6 years, when I would want to have kids of my own, will I be brave enough?