Posted on 04/17/2007 11:41:34 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was identified Tuesday as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service. News reports also said that he may have been taking medication for depression, that he was becoming increasingly violent and erratic, and that he left a note in his dorm in which he railed against ''rich kids," ''debauchery" and ''deceitful charlatans" on campus. Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior, arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington, D.C., officials said. He was living on campus in a different dorm from the one where Monday's bloodbath began. Police and university officials offered no clues as to exactly what set him off on the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
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This highlights the ONLY way this could have been prevented. MAYBE, and only maybe, it could have been stopped if someone noticed that his behavior was escalating.
But he sounds so alienated (there is one report that he would not respond even if greeted) that maybe no one knew.
I feel sorry for his parents.
Yikes! That kid was a psychopath!
A very large number of these schoolshooters were on prozac , ritalin, etc.
I truly doubt his parents would have seeked help or known. Especially if they were from the old country (South Korea) where that stuff is usually kept quiet for fear of shame.
Guns don’t kill people — Prozac kills people.
Infidels...
I notice they omit the detail about “Ismail Ax” being written in the note or on his arm, as reported earlier by the Chicago Tribune.
Was he a Muslim? No evidence for it as yet, except that one detail and perhaps the nature of the crime. But I find it interesting that a Salt Lake City newspaper is ignoring the possibility . . . again.
People on drugs are likely to suddenly explode. But these murders have all the appearance of long premeditation.
Seems like the usual self-absorbed garbage which abdicates personal responsibility and blames others; "I'm not happy, therefore somebody must die."
“Loner Asian kid with over-bearing parents, penchant for disturbing fiction and a fascination with guns and violence” describes about three people in my Freshman year dorm. Scary.
I agree. Friends would have been the most likely ones to notice but those seem to be in short supply in his life.
We had a school shooting here recently and several kids came forward to lend insight into the kid’s personality, mindset, etc. No one has said a word about this guy. Pretty alienated.
I smell a lawsuit brewing.
And I’m guessing stricken with Sudden Jihad Syndrome
Sound more to me like he had a thing against Rich kids. Rejection probably. Explains the stalking of the girl. Rejection, Anger, rage, murder.
English major, eh? It figures. What are the most moonbatty leftwing departments in America today? English departments. Combine that with his ranting against rich kids and it all fits.
Did this guy not have roommates? Don’t most dorms have more than one person per room? Haven’t heard a thing about that.
I don’t see a political bent to this. He was alienate, angry and mentally ill. His hatred came from inside, his own paranoia.
Sudden Liberal Syndrome if you ask me. Hated Wealth - because probably rejected by rich kids or one rich kid in particular - rejected by the girl (possibly the girl he stalked was rich). Seems this kid has a host of psychological problems and the anti-depression drugs were not helping with them.
Yes, it's true...but some of us come through with our conservative chops undamaged.
-Oberon, VPI, B.A. English '92
This kid would have have been a 9th-grader when Columbine went down. He’s probably been dreaming about his own “nerd’s revenge” since then.
That's the Rudy part of your brain talking... ;)
I’m going to go way out on limb here and predict a flurry of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. I know, I know, how could I possibly forsee such an unlikely thing, but trust me.
I just realized that yesterday was also Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was mentioned in connection with that brave Israeli engineer who gave his life to save his students.
Another coincidence?
Sulejman Talovic, who shot and killed people at a mall recently, also came to America when he was a child.
Anger against the “rich” is a tell-tale sign that he was gotten to by liberal professors.
GOOGLE < SSRI mass murder >
Also this week was the 8 year anniversary of Columbine! Coinky Dink?
Why the students did not bull rush this POS is beyond me. A few would have been shot, but very few.
Since Cho seems to be filling in every stereotype I’m going to go one further and guess that he had typical Korean parents: stiff and unaffectionate with ridiculously high standards when it comes to academic achievement and “honor”.
I think it’s the April 15th (17th) IRS effect.
GOOGLE < SSRI mass murder >
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I think a compelling argument could be made here.
That’s exactly what I think too!
Everybody likes to think they would be a hard ass in this situation, but until some psycho bursts into your German class on a sleepy Monday morning we’ll never know.
This shakes me. A young man, a young Korean who looks a lot like this young man, fell for my daughter in Middle School. His obsession for her grew over the years and it evolved into frightening phone calls. I finally went to the principal who, fortunately, took immediate action. You just never know what these situations can grow into.
Whatever drug he was on, if any, this much is certain: If just one sane teacher or sane student had been carrying a concealed weapon, the killer could have been shot long before he took so many lives and wounded so many others. Just one normal person with a weapon could have saved most of the others.
The psychiatrists don’t really know what will happen when they prescribe drugs. They are just guessing, playing with lives, and the consequences have often been fatal. Too often, the “cure” is worse than the mental imbalance.
There is a thread on FR where his roommate was interviewed by somebody (CNN?) 19 yr. old who said Cho was a weirdo who usually ignored anything said or replied with one word answers, at best.
Fear! First thing a person does when the brain is in fear mode is freeze and then take flight! Unless you have military training or law enforcement training you will either freeze up or take flight - that is what usually happens to the untrained brain. These are students not military or cops. Its easy for us to sit here at our computers and think of what we would have done but if we were in the same you don’t know for sure.
Well, the last couple of hijack attempters got the living shiite beat out of them, so that’s a good sign.
Not that is a verrrry strange comment!
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I don't understand why English Majors spend so much time agonizing in the university, when they could just drop out after their sophomore year and go directly to the Starbucks and start cranking out lattes.
Lol, yes, you did, O! You did fine. And you must have a constitution of steel to have gotten through it in one piece. I believe it would've left me howling at the moon. Good thing I went into math.
I hope someone of Korean descent will correct me if I’m wrong, but its my understanding (from my Uncle who does alot of business there) that Koreans are stereotypically the most racist people in Asia with a firm belief in their superiority over other other Asian peoples and everyone else. A generalization, but it would help explain why this guy would go insane at the hint of rejection or failure.
It sounds like the psychobabbling mental health professionals at the school missed the ticking time bomb..
RE: left a note in his dorm in which he railed against ‘’rich kids,” ‘’debauchery” and ‘’deceitful charlatans”
Similar POV as the 9-11 attackers. Except spiked by a sick mind.
If the nannies want to ban something, I think it’s time to give very serious thought to banning prozac.
They sure jumped on Vioxx for example when it was believed to contribute to the untimely death of those with heart conditions. Well, I submit that Prozac has killed a lot more people.
Yup! They sure did!
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