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CORRUPT issues statement on University shooting
It is with sadness that the news of the Virginia University shootings reaches us at CORRUPT. 
As you are most likely by now aware; on april 16th 2007, Cho Seung Hoi, a student at Virginia Polytechnic, shot dead 32 people on campus and wounded 29 others before also killing himself. We are saddened by the loss of so many promising young lives, including that of Cho Seung Hoi.
Predictably, many in the media are already clambering over themselves in search of something to pin the blame on for this tragedy, with the usual range of secondary issues, such as the availability of firearms, being made the scapegoats for something that has causes clearly running much deeper than they seem willing to accept.
The fact that events of this kind are becoming an increasingly familiar occurrence is a sure sign that something has gone fundamentally wrong within our society.
The world which we have created forces people to detatch from their communities to join a soulless pursuit of wealth and status which affords them little lifestyle security and little time left to spend with their family & friends.
As a consequence we periodically produce alienated young individuals who, out of sheer frustration with the neurosis of modern life, lash out in a frenzy of extreme violence.
From Columbine, to Red Lake and now Virginia Tech, what is perhaps most disturbing and inexplicable to many people is that consistenly such atrocities are commit by isolated but otherwise extremely bright people. The problem is that, though they are for one reason or another inherently determined to be the outsider, they are intelligent enough to recognise where our civilization has gone wrong. Unfortunately they feel powerless to alter it in any significant way and so turn to destruction as an outlet for their despondancy. 
Some commentators have tried to pass the actions of the killer off as an anomaly; the exceptional product of a mentally deranged young man. We however say that our current society is producing people that are psychologically disturbed and that our rising rates of teenage suicide, depression and drug use attest that the dissatisfaction that led Cho Seun Hoi to do what he did is not an isolated phenomena.
The easy thing to now do is enact some arbitrary legislation that puts blanket restrictions on personal freedoms. Whilst this might feel like the right thing to do, it would not address the matter at the heart of such sorrowful events as this.
- CORRUPT press secretary
About CORRUPT, inc
CORRUPT are an influential thinktank & civilization watchdog that believe a better future for humans will come by embracing reality and not silly bureaucratic, academic or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to critique the society of our current time and get human civilization back on track with sorting out our actual problems.
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April 20, 2007
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