I’m not sure that it really matters. The facts won’t change the outcome, prevent similar events in the future, or explain why.
Police identified the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before turning the gun on himself as student Cho Seung-Hui, university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.
The 23-year-old South Korean and resident alien lived at the university’s Harper Hall, Flinchum said. He was an English major, the chief said.
Flinchum said ballistics tests showed that one of the two guns recovered at Norris Hall, where 30 people and the gunman died, was used in the Norris shooting and an earlier shooting at a dormitory that left two dead.
The university and police are still in the process of releasing the names of the 32 people killed in Monday’s shootings. (Watch how some are asking why warnings weren’t issued sooner Video)
A doctor at a Blacksburg hospital described the injuries he saw Monday as “amazing” and the shooter as “brutal.”
“There wasn’t a shooting victim that didn’t have less than three bullet wounds in them,” said Dr. Joseph Cacioppo of Montgomery Regional Hospital.
Unfortunately, this will probably turn into an immigration issue (which it isn’t – despite spin attempts by bigots like Debbie Schlussel) and most definitely into a gun-control issue. I am not in favor of excessive gun control but neither side of that debate has a solution for this problem. People will always find ways to harm each other. Humanity seems to prey upon itself. That’s an uncomfortable fact but the numbers do not lie.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
God rest the souls of the victims and may the wounded have a speedy recovery.
Regarding your question of what next, men are not angels and no system is perfect. When it’s time to move beyond mourning, a useful question for any proposed solution is “what is the failure mode?” What happens when the system fails? There will never be any good answers, just least bad ones.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Chexk this website to discover just who this INNOCENT man was and what he was doing.
http://flickr.com/photos/eldarossell/203788467
April 17th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
http:// flickr . com / photos / eldarossel / 203788467
Do it right, and you will discover just how innocent this murderer was.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Cho Seung-Hui’s journey to the dark side is complete. He was reported to have been taking presription meds (SSRI’s) for depression.
How do I know that Big Pharma is the author of this carnage? I took Effexor.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
i think what that cho guy did was good, he killed many innocent people, but the teachers will be afraid to abuse the student in future. i read what he wrote, he said he is sacrificing himself for all the weak and helpless guys. and its true. first i thought he was a monster but after i read what he wrote i can see the benefit of what he did. you see in our world people only respect one thing — strength. if you are big and tall everyone respect you, if you are small everyone treats you like shit. cho showed that small guys can turn nasty if pushed too far, and that will make people afraid to pick on small guys, especially students. innocent people died, that’s unfortunate. but the same thing happens in a war, innocent die in order to correct some other evil. cho was kicked out of poetry and literature class for his writing, he was a shy guy so when he tried to hit on a couple girls in a somewhat clumsy way they ratted on him. girls don’t have the guts to say “i am not interested, but thank you for asking” to guys they find unattractive, instead they pretend they like them, flirt with them, than behind their back they rat on them and backstab them. and misandrist men are all to happy carrying out their dirty duties falsely accusing a guy of harassment. sex discriminates against the ugly. they don’t realize that ugly guys are people too who also deserve to have fun and be happy. taking a kinder and gentler attitude towards all humankind might serve these pampered women with low self-esteem well. its easy to ridicule men, to blame men, to ignore men. but it is not easy to be a man. especially an ugly short man like cho. society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.
feminists and men who support gender biased, sexist, anti-male laws including the school system, police, justice system, and government are responsible for emasculation of men, which is the cause of the social anxiety among young men like cho. feminists would rather nitpick and close down a corporation which is supporting thousands of women who feed their babies because some guy hang a victoria’s secret angel over the time clock.
as for the media, its common sense that by rewarding cho with what he was aiming for – publicity they are sending the message that whoever kills a lot of people will be rewarded with publicity. why stop there? announce a bloody reward for the families of dead serial killers so you can get your bloody ratings. what do you expect from a society which is so utterly lacking in integrity? you are worse than the cho dude, you may be snug and secure behind your desks, but you are encouraging murder.