Shootings in Realengo

Brazil was awoken today with a great tragedy.

The Rio de Janeiro Massacre
Today,  April 7, 2011 Rio de Janeiro suffered an unspeakable tragedy when a gunman in his mid-20s walked into the school and opened fire on children, killing 11 children and wounding 22, according to preliminary reports from police. He then either killed himself or was shot down in a shootout with police. It’s reportedly the first event of this kind in our the country.

 It's a sad thing to see, in a world with so many natural disasters we still have to face the "mental" disasters of some humans, who either incontent or enraged with life and with the world end up taking it out on other people.
With so many examples of shootings around the world, From Columbine, and Virginia Tech to many others.

It's so difficult to understand why these people do this, why nobody noticed their rage or their sadness, it's hard to know who to blame for letting it get to this points, all we know is there have been too many massacres and too many shootings. Will it never end. Many inocent people dying, without reason and so many families loosing their kids. It's too much. So many films have tried to portray these events, tried to show it is wrong, tried to understand what these people were thinking when they decided to orchestrate these massacres. Bowling fo Columbine (Michael Moore), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), April Showers (Andrew Robinson), Massacre at Virginia Tech, and many others, have tried to show the world what happened and how they feel about it.

I really love my country but it makes me sad to see that with so many good examples to be taken from other countries, on education, ecology, health care and politics, we choose to import only theat useless and bad things, such as many futil and useless reality shows like Big Brother (which I personally think is a huge waste of time and money and adds nothing to our lives), obesity, bullying and now this, shootings in schools. I am angry and upset, it pained me to see the desperate mothers, hoping and praying that their child was alive and then finding out they had lost their children, the twins, one survived and the other died and so many other little ones who lost their lives because of a idiot with a gun. How many more inocent lives will be taken by other copycats of these shootings. We must spread love and not hate, we must bring good to our country and not death and destruction. My prayers go out to all the families and may the spirits of those who died reach a good place in peace.