Posted on 04/17/2007 6:39:31 AM PDT by starlifter
Va. Tech Gunman Named
By Michael Shear and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 9:36 AM
Virginia Tech officials today identified the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and then himself on the Blacksburg campus yesterday as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui of Centreville.
Cho was a South Korean native who had immigrated to this country, the university announced on its Web site this morning. He was a senior majoring in English, and lived in a dorm on campus, officials said.
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Oh, great. You've just revealed 24's plot for next year. Thanks a lot ... ;-)
I guess that degree of packratism is just foreign to me.
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LOL. I wish I could say the same.
With Asian names, the family name often comes first, then the individual’s name.
IIRC, the Koreans follow this tradition, so it is entirely possible that the gun shop owner was *correct*.
Where was Jim Webb when we needed him ???
I like Lou Dobbs because he is usually interesting. But in this I totally disagree with him.
What are you talking about??
Anyone know? That sounds rather a complicated circuitous route to get here....
I did, however, love Webb’s book “Born Fighting”. I wish some of those young men had used some of that ornrey Scots-Irish blood!
While I do not blame video games for this guy’s actions, video games *do* allow someone to practice his marksmanship skills - we’re talking about the big standup units where you actually hold a pistol simulator and shoot at targets on the large screen in front of you. The Army has taken note of this and is starting to try the tech out more seriously.
“You have made the best point I’ve heard. Prayers for the victim and I’m not blaming them but where has bravery gone? Why did they just stand there like sheep?”
Thank you. I’m not sure they did ‘just stand there like sheep’ btw.
Lots of rumors swirled for a week after Columbine, before we learned the truth, that it was a well planned ‘domestic terror attack’ not just a ‘school shooting’.
Lets see if the shooter left a suicide note, if not before the first two killings, sometime during the two hours afterwards.
He was doing ‘something’ for 120 minutes...what was it?
Ya think?
He didn't - seemingly here since age 8. The whole PRC thing was apparently bogus.
I have to disagree here. It is not that hard to achieve decent marksmanship with a pistol at short ranges, and we know the lunatic didn’t successfully make shots that were over about 50 feet (from reports that he took shots at a janitor and other people that were down a hall - and missed, badly). Most of his kills were probably within a 25 foot radius.
As hard as it may seem, there are some things that just can’t be prevented except by luck or a hunch. There isn’t going to be a satisfactory answer for something like this, and that’s why people hope it was something concrete, like terrorism. People generally can’t accept the fact that evil wins its share of battles, regardless of what we do.
This will be politicized without a doubt. It’s an impossibility to identify and tranquilize every lunatic out there. We can’t read their minds, and even if we can predict some of their actions, we still have a Bill of Rights which prevents us from arresting “potential” criminals. The supreme tragedy is that, in the end, there’s probably no answer to “why”. Instead of blaming people, we, as a country, should rally around the families of those who died and are wounded. There’s no silver lining to something like this.
Since immigrants and illegal aliens have such high rates of homicide and gang membership (in my area Asian and Hispanic gangs are running amok), cutting down on both would save American lives.
We can only reduce the rates of homicide, but there is no way to eliminate it.
This is presumably the same Larry Hincker who expressed his satisfaction a year ago when concealed carry was disallowed on the campus:
A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.
House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill’s defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
Typical journalistic rush to a scoop without double checking!
A South Korean English major??? Nah, it doesn't pass the smell test.
A South Korean English major on a killing rampage in an engineering building??? You've got to be kidding.
My guess is that some low level clerk checking the University's records saw the student's college listed as ENG (abbreviation for ENGineering) and assumed it stood for ENGlish. They probably passed that mistake on to a university administrator/spokesman and then on to a reporter.
It'll be days before the MSM gets it straightened out, and by then the public will be too bamboozled to every get it right.
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