Saturday, July 21, 2012

Mindless shooting

The mindless shooting by a 24 year old gunman in Colorado at Aura Theatre Hall of America killed 12 movie watchers and injured more than 57. This is a highly condemnable incident. US Govt. must try its best to stop the recurrence of this type of blood bath of the innocent for no fault of theirs. The shocking and horrific shooting incident took place when the premier show of famous Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises was going on. The shooting incident depicts the frustration and delusion among the youths in society. Though this is not the first time in America that shooting has taken place at public place, we believe whatever is done there must be emulated. It is nothing but our mad race for modernization and westernization. And because of this emulating tendency of western culture, the shooting takes place at public places sometimes by misguided youths in our country also. Shooting in American cinema hall also clearly reflects the moral degeneration set among youths in all societies of the world. Shooting openly in schools, cinema hall and at public place for wanton of the innocent persons the misguided youths in all corners of the world may be a systematic social failure. The main reason behind encouragement youths to take to violence is the rise of filming violent act and its glamorization through movies in western countries. It leaves deep impact on the minds of the youth. Video games and lack of proper direction to them in society encourage them to take to violence. This type of shooting incident mostly happens in American society where there is no established social norm because of its openness to the extreme. Arms and ammunition can be acquired easily in America. Youths are the power house of any society. The important issue is how the society uses it. It can be used in both ways – positive and negative- when it is used positively, they go into space and when it is used negatively the incident like shooting in Cinema hall takes place. A masked gunman turned the much-awaited premiere of the latest Batman movie in a US cinema hall into a horrific bloodbath, spraying the audience with bullets killing 12 people and leaving 50 others injured in the worst mass shooting incident in the country since 2007. It is also the total security failure at the Cinema Hall. How was the gunman allowed to enter the theatre with a loaded gun as if it were a toy? Armed weapons must not be displayed openly. There must be restriction on the movement of the person with armed weapons. If anyone moves with armed weapon, he must ascribe the reason before movement. The American cinema hall shooting is a lesson to be learnt by us so that we must keep away from following and believing that whatever happens in America should be emulated to be counted among modern men and women of the world.

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