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Behind the lines

Another shooting, another mass-murderer,
yet what is really behind the yellow tape line?
So we have another sad event involving a mass murderer who after completing his shooting, turns the weapon against himself to vanish forever. Sure, we have immediate media coverage that already are pointing out the "how's, when's and who's" together with evaluations and statements, categorization and even pre-emptive judgement. But who's really asking the "why's" behind their acts? Of course it's easier to categorize and see that behaviour's match those of this kind of murderers, or that kind of criminals, and so on. But outcast and hardship without a true stronghold that can point you in the right direction, is crucial for prevention and unfortunately, events like this only shows how un-bound and indifferent we've become as society. "What happens to my neighbour is his problem and I don't care" has become the everyday practice, sometimes unchecked and by default. From the point of view of an immigrant worker, when you're forced to find other place where you could have better opportunities and having been subject on only few ocassions to emancipation for your skin colour or appearence, how sad is to see that even a citizen of its own country can be also subject to outcasting and emancipation. To kill another life will never be an answer or solution, but up to what point have we failed to all these people in recognize promptly that they need professional help and support that could have prevented these killings? maybe it would be good to start digging a little on the every-day attitudes we always have and behave towards one another, so makeshift memorials with flowers and candles no longer have to lay at the feet of statistics behind the yellow tapes of a 'crime-scene-do-not-cross'.

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