To Kill

Harris and Klebold, students, arrive at school in Columbine, Colorado, United States of America. They then enter on it and a few minutes later these two guys start shooting other students and dropping bombs wherever they go – a lot of people die. They finally kill themselves right inside the school. This is not a movie. This is not a book. This is not fiction. It really happened in April 20, 1999. We first create weapons it to hunt and feed, than we start defending ourselves from possible enemies or from nature, later we hurt people to gather information (I personally don’t think this is an excuse) and today, well, today we almost do not use it to hunt.

A long time ago, we used stones as a tool to hunt. Moreover, if we could hunt, we could eat! It was a practical use of a weapon and it helped us to survive and develop new ways to obtain food, it was new technology that at that time had a purpose.

As time goes by, people developed new purposes for stones! Yes, we found out that we could not only hunt, but hurt! And these two little letters make a big difference in creativity. That was when we invented more types of weapons, and people could use it in many ways of hurting. It was a time to defend ourselves from enemies, conquer lands, to get back heritages, and sometimes we could even use it to have some food. The development of weapon changes the rhythm and objectives.

Today, we are in a mess. We no longer have control on what we are doing and weapons became dangerous. Our society has so many technologies around new researches of arms and almost everyone have access to guns. We became a violent civilization (mess + free access to weapon = civilization?), where to have a weapon is a powerful thing or even safe. Cops have weapons to protect a community from criminals, government have weapons to keep enemies way from their lands, women have weapons to feel safe, men have weapons to show their power, and do teenagers have weapons to kill?

This is how we are using our weapons today. Wake up! Those two teenagers used guns, that they bought on internet to kill their colleagues, this was not something that we had thought before, when we created guns. We are not following the right rhythm of this technology’s development, because maybe, we are not ready to have it and to use it! Are we still using this technology properly or as an useful extension of us? Are we developing new ways of weapons and forgetting to expand our brain to learn how to deal with such dangerous technology? Isn’t this technology much more advanced than we can live with? People are maybe behind this technology expectation.