Reflection of Taylor Bradford's Death

First of all, I would like to send my sympathies to the family and friends of Taylor Bradford. What happened on Sunday night was awful and hopefully it will never happen.

This Sunday night, Taylor was shot and killed near the Carpenter Complex apartments. It was tragic. It's not the same magnitude of Virginal Tech, but it is something we as a community can learn. I hope people who read this understand that I am just a person who goes to the University of Memphis. In fact, the only reason Taylor and I can be mentioned in the same sentence is because we both attend the same undergraduate school. The problem arises here. Everyone thinks if a person does not show sympathy or compassion, then that person is automatically a freak or lunatic. But in reality, it's not true. For example, let's consider my own case. So I sympathize for the family and especially parents for losing a child. But that's it. I can't say anymore because I don't know anything else. This is the case for the rest of the University of Memphis Campus. We care, just about the wrong things. We care for ourselves, not Taylor. And that's human instinct. We are naturally lazy, evil, and greedy. As a result, the effect of the shooting personally on me is minimal. We hear about five different homicides on the local news.

Another issue is whether there are campus safety problems across the country. After researching the web for crimes in the university campuses, I found that in fact crime has overall decease from 2002 to 2003. Thus can we say there is a problem with campus safety? Nope. So what this boils down to is violence. I'd say the first time someone robbed from another person it was 10,000 years ago when civilization just started. It occurred to a caveman that another caveman possessed something he liked and the rest is history. How do we eradicate violence? We don't! We can't! Not unless the Rockefeller's, Bush's, and Carnegie's live at the same standard of living as middle class Americans.

At this point in the argument, the reader most feels pessimistic over the possibility of accomplishing something towards minimizing violence. My solution, even though there is no problem here, is derived from this article I found searching the web trying to find correlations between the crime in Europe and Asia to the United States. I urge you to read this article. Here is the link http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-gunownership.htm. Dealing with violence is Alost trying to catch Osama bin Laden. I advocate citizens of Memphis and America to live life because danger is omnipresent. Yesterday we lost Taylor; tomorrow I might die. In the end, the world will slowly progress to entropy.