O1.) Oakland, California University Shooting

After reading an article on the recent shootings of several people at Oikos University a small religious school in Oakland, California, and how the killer 43 year old Juan Goh felt no remorse made me absolutely sick. Goh was kicked out of college three months prior to the shootings due to his behavioral problems, anger management, and that he was deeply in debt and had tons of thousands of dollars in tax liens, including from the Internal Revenue Service. I believe that this triggered the horrendous events, and that him saying he was picked on was just a way to justify why he killed all those people. From what I read Goh took a receptionist hostage and went into a classroom looking for a certain female administrator, who wasn’t there. When Goh realized that she wasn’t there he shot the secretary and ordered all the students up against the wall. Not all of the students were cooperating so he began shooting. In quotes Goh said, “I’m going to kill you all”. After he was done in that classroom he carried on firing in several other classrooms killing over seven people and wounding three. He ended the killings and drove off in a victim’s car. Shortly, after Goh surrendered to police at a grocery store in the Oakland suburb of Alameda. When arrested, Goh was very cooperative, calm, and remembered very specific details of the shootings. All I can say is that people are sick, not everything in your life is going to go as you hoped. There are many people in this world I absolutely can’t stand and I have been rejected plenty of times from things I really care about. There is never a bad enough situation that would make it okay for you to take the lives of others. I hope that Juan Goh realizes one day that what he did was wrong and that not just innocent people were killed but their families were left to deal with the hurt and pain.