Blog 18: Freewrite: Massacre vs what?

According to dictionary.com a massacre is to kill unnecessarily and indiscriminately, esp. a large number of persons. A very tragic, sad massacre happened very recently at Virginia Tech, you can read and hear all about it on the news such as CNN or any local news channels. The reason I bring up the definition is because I was t work the day it happened and was working with a girl a year younger than me. The story obviously was brought up. One of the first things she says is that she doesn’t think that it is a massacre and doesn’t know why they are calling it such. I was a tiny bit surprised, I began telling her that it is a lot of people and that they are calling it a massacre because it was one. She went on to argue about how a massacre is more people in her book, she said that maybe 50 would be enough for it to be considered a massacre. She is obviously wrong as I looked up the definition. Also our first massacre and it is very well known is the Boston Massacre, guess how many people that were killed on that day?? Five, five were killed and 7 wounded. In this Virginia Tech massacre, over thirty people died that is times as many people that died in one of the oldest well known massacre’s in our history. I hope everyone realizes how sad and tragic it was and knows that it was a mass number of people who died, people should argue against something like that.