It´s hard to find words to express our sorrow for the tragedy. Me, my family, friends, and everybody I know, are much concerned and talking all the day about the Virginia incidents.

We in Argentina have seen some similar cases with one or two victims, but there is a common characteristic of the individuals who caused the tragedy: a history of discrimination, isolation and disrespect against these persons, by members of the students community, ignored or accepted by the authorities, who encourage the spirit of competition, differentiation, division of people into winners and losers, into members and not members of internal groups or teams, etc. A sane person will never have a criminal reaction, but let´s sum a hostile social environment, to a psychotic personality, to a growing tension, to the wide availability of lethal weapons which are terribly easy to carry and use, to some particular incident, and we have all the elements for a tragedy.

It will be hard to recover from so much pain, but we have to do something to find the causes and amend the policies which are failing.

Un abrazo - Andrés, from Buenos Aires