{"id":24,"date":"2007-04-18T19:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=24"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:41","slug":"tragedy-at-virginia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy at Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"234x60_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">Could such a great tragedy have been avoided at Virginia Tech?\u00c2\u00a0 That is the question many may be asking or thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is this a sad situation for families of the victims, but also family of the gunman.\u00c2\u00a0 What a tragedy, such random act of violence, 33 lives lost.\u00c2\u00a0 As more news is released, it is becoming clear that the gunman was a very disturbed and troubled individual.\u00c2\u00a0 As much as I feel sorry for the victims, I can\u2019t help but also feel sorry for the murderer.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps there is a valid explanation for his madness, but it will never be a sane reason.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">Many of those who may have known or interacted with the gunman, will possible feel guilt.\u00c2\u00a0 Guilt that will torment them for the rest of their lives, could they have prevented this.\u00c2\u00a0 Could they have helped a very troubled man? Could they have saved 33 lives?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">Time will reveal more to this madness and I am sure it will not be pleasant.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only offer my condolences to the victim\u2019s families, students,\u00c2\u00a0staff of Virginia Tech,\u00c2\u00a0and to the people of Virginia.\u00c2\u00a0 May you have the strength to overcome such great tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could such a great tragedy have been avoided at Virginia Tech?\u00c2\u00a0 That is the question many may be asking or thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is this a sad situation for families of the victims, but also family of the gunman.\u00c2\u00a0 What&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=24\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}