Cho was a leftist. He said he wanted to murder the rich. He was sexually weird. He took pictures of girls' legs under their desks with his cell phone. He was mentally weird and appears to have been a follower of Ishmael / Daniel Quinn. (Somewhere between a liberal and an alien from the Planet Tinfoilhattus.) He was a loner and a psychopath -- YOU made me do this. He was evil. A doctor said every fatality was shot at least three times.
I wonder how long it will be before he is hailed as a Leftist Martyr and Hero?
I thought his careful planning down to the release of the video and his message that was just too vague, seemingly non-specific as to why he would be driven to kill set off alarms in me. Luckily we have a drawer full of Kaiser Wrap and a stainless steel colander.
He had a history of being virtually invisible, nondescript, someone to ignore until his time came for the role to play. Then it all unfolded with robotic coolness as if he were a real life Manchurian Candidate or a creature directed by a higher (lower) force.
Where the planning belied simple looney toons and the message lacked the directed rage, it did sound very similar to that of the videos of the homicide bombers of the Middle East. His messages sounded stereotyped, standard leftist or Islamist terrorist verbage. He even looked like one of them, not in features necessarily, but in behavior. His act was successful in exposing vulnerabilities and prototyping future attacks. Maybe there is no earthly connection, just the same father, the father of lies.
Yes, a loner and a psychopath, but with a direction coming from some force bigger than he.