Posts Tagged ‘school shooting’

Good Evening.

Yesterday, I was heading home. I had attended a memorial gathering for the night of broken glass, the night the 9th of November 1938, where a series of brutal attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria. We remember this, so that we remember never to allow Nazism and right-wing fascism to return, especially important when there are Nazis in both the Swedish and the Hungarian parliaments. That’s not what I’m blogging about, however.

On the buss ride home, I was listening to the radio. They told the story of a 16 year old girl in 1979, who on a Monday took a gun to school, and killed two adults, and injured several people. She showed no remorse, and when asked why she did it, she said “I don’t like Mondays; this livens up the day.”

The Boomtown Rats, an awesome old rock group, made this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2I84-A9duY&feature=related

Funny world isn’t it, when such a tragedy inspires such a great song?

Vegard

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