Vladi Wizard's Musings

After yet another evening at work, and while reading another of the countless articles written about the VT shootings, I was struck with a thought, when I took in yet another comment about someone stating how the shooter had feel through the cracks of the mental health system. That thought is this. Who is going to pay for all this? Will this be yet another example of a knee-jerk legislative period that federally mandates a solution looking for a problem, without actually doing anything to fund the legislation? Or, will it be much like is going on now health budgets being slashed (especially in the mental health fields) all over the country on federal, state and local levels ? We cannot deal with the people that we have now in “ the system ” , let alone add to it by making colleges and other public institutions add to it with anyone that writes a disturbing play, or who may or may not be a threat to themselves or others , etc. Most people think of these type of situations as an ei...

A tragic day yesterday for Virginia Tech University. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims of the (at this time) unidentified gunman. Already we are seeing people making this tragedy into a political statement. Fingers are being pointed, and blame trying to be placed. In trying to find some meaning to this situation, many are jumping to conclusions, and/or expecting answers to questions that are still being made. I would like to ask people in general, the same thing that I have told people here at my work (where I am writing this), and that is that this situ ation will take many days, if not weeks to fully unravel. And, with the sole (apparently at this time) gunman taking his life after taking the lives of 32 others, we will truly never know exactly what drove this tragic event. That said, I would like to make a couple of observations about what I have seen and heard by the media. Much is being made on why the school wasn ’ t locked down after the initial sho...