Police Yet To Find Real Perpetrator Of Virginia Tech Shooting

While fingers are all pointing at Cho Seung-Hui as the shooter in the Virginia Tech tragedy, the real culprit is still at large. Sir Isaac Newton's third law of physics says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As details emerge about Cho, we see that the perpetrator goes far beyond a young man with a gun.

See, according to this third law of physics, if you push on something, it will push back with as much force as you put against it. In other words, if you lean against a wall you won't fall through because the wall is pushing back with the same force that you are leaning against it. Society leaned on Cho and he leaned back with the same amount of force that was placed upon him.

This is not to say that is it OK to get angry, buy a gun and shoot a bunch of people, but it does mean that we have to take a look at what our society is doing to promote this type of response in people today. It is on television, video games, in our music and spouted by shock jocks - violence against people is everywhere and we are desensitized to it.

We have the "war on drugs" and the "war on crime" and most ironic is the "war on terrorism". With all that negativity that we are setting forth into the universe, it is no wonder that we are drawing in so much negativity and violence.

Like attracts like, negativity draws negativity. Our media pounced on the story like a blood thirsty tiger on a baby deer; and for at least three consecutive days the ONLY thing that you saw on the national news channels were live feeds from the Virginia Tech campus.

Then the copycats began their antics. Bomb threats began popping up in campuses all over the country within hours, people were threatening to walk into classrooms and shoot everyone they saw, the country was in chaos as others watched the events at Virginia Tech unfold and thought it would be cool try in their own hometown.

Tragedy breeds tragedy and we all saw that firsthand as we sat glued to our TVs over those several days, taking in every word, every nuance and calling everyone we knew to alert them that yet another bomb threat had been received at another school in anther state.

Is it the insatiable blood-thirst of our society that compels us to watch with fascination when tragedy befalls others? In this sense, we are guilty of giving the media a reason to sensationalize tragic events. They blow it up and feed our lust as we crave more, show us dead bodies, show us blood, tell us every sordid detail of the killer's life. And the media is more than happy to comply.

As random acts of violence are committed, more random acts of violence spring forth as fascination and a void in feeling or response when it comes to death and violence numbs us against the sanctity of human life and peace. There is a way and it can begin, just one positive thought at a time. As we invite positivity into the universe the negativity will slide away. Like attracts like. So if we are currently attracting negativity with negativity into our society, we can just as easily draw in positivity with positivity and find peace and life.