Right when I read the news and saw photos from the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday, I feared that the killer would be a person of Asian descent. A picture of an unidentified Asian student being detained face down by a law officer was a photo that caught my eye rather prominently. Even though it was probably someone completely uninvolved in the murders, this student was Asian in a community where Asians are probably not a large part of the demographic. In this country, it very much seems that as long as a person doesn't look Caucasian, they are going to be discriminated against in some way, shape or form for not being "American".

I can also see the media having its field day with the killer's ethnicity, putting Cho Seung-Hui right up there with Charles Ng, Andrew Cunanan, Al De Guzman and Chai Soua Vang as recent mentally disturbed mass murderers or near mass murderers of Asian descent in the US of A's recent past.

While it can be easy to pin the problem to either race or media or money (or a combination thereof), one cannot ignore how easy it is to acquire a firearm in this country. With the increase in post-Columbine gun violence in schools ranging from elementary school to college, we are seeing how obsolete "the right to bear arms" in our Bill of Rights is becoming.

Given the history of sociopaths and psychotics involved in gun violence, should not a simple psych test exist at the very least for individuals wishing to purchase a handgun? Is it just me, or does the 2 week waiting period seem like a joke? Does it seem like our current administration is instilling a culture of fear from foreign threats, but ignoring the tension between the two Americas at home?