Back at the retreat, located about 20 miles from the capital on an island called Otoeya, a man dressed as a police man entered. The youth thought it was a security check in conjunction to the bombing. Instead, the man opened fire, claiming victim after victim for two hours.
After reading this, you can't help but feel sad.. for these young lives that were taken, for their families, for the state of the world in general.
As I was reading, I came across this quote from one of the campers that really caught me:
"I laid under the bed for two hours and then the police smashed a window and came in. It seems kind of unreal, especially in Norway. This is not something that could happen here, this is something you hear about happening in the U.S."
Empathetic to the entire nation of Norway, because we, too, as a country have mourned too many young lives lost, I can't help but wonder how the world sees us.
Campus shootings, for instance.. one of my international friends said that it's something they expect to happen in the United States, and that it doesn't happen anywhere else.
I love America. And being American. But do we seem that barbaric? Brawn over brain. Is that the "American way"?
Just a thought.
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