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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
in James Fennimore Cooper’s story “The Prairie,” the settler Ishmael Bush, who is attempting to escape from civilization, sets out across the prairie with two key tools, a gun and an axe. Each has a symbolic meaning. The axe — which can either kill or provide shelter — stands for both creation and destruction. Given that the VT killer was an English major, might this be the likely meaning of the words on his arm?
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/17/breaking-abc-news-ids-gunman-as-seung-hui-cho/
How about you direct us to the claimed seller’s posts?
So it's "Bush's Fault" after all?
Easy to 2nd guess. If the classes had been canceled, where would the students have gone? Most of them to their dorm rooms which was where the shooting had just occurred.
Secondly, a college campus is like a small city. You can't just "shut it down". Many of the students don't even have cars to leave the campus. The ensuing panic would allow the gunman to escape anyway.
When there is a shooting in a neighborhood, do the police evacuate the entire city or even the neighborhood?
“Something like 500,000 rounds were fired in WWII for each solider killed. For LEO’s or anyone, sub 50% sounds OK considering light, preparation, both subjects moving...yada, yada, yada.”
Yep.
It will be months, but we will know exactly how many shots this guy fired before killing himself. I’m betting his accuracy...kill ratio...however you want to define it...is very high comparatively.
We’ll see.
Yes, all South Korean males serve in the military, but they don’t have guns. They call them stick soldiers because they practice marching with sticks.
But this kid wouldn’t have had to serve as long as he was in school. Most Koreans serve right out of high school.
This kid was nuts, though, on medication, with a history of aberrant behavior that should have caused him to be expelled from school.
The fact we haven’t heard about a note is interesting. I wouldn’t be suprised if there’s not some sort of Muslim angle on this by tomorrow.
You don’t line trudge across campus to whack strangers in the heat of the moment. How many buildings between West AJ and Norris Hall? It’s not like he walked across ‘The Quad’.
He walked all the way across campus. He’s an English major, but went into an engineering building. Too manu contraditions that make this something other than a crime of passion. Extremely unlikely this is an act of passion.
Then what do you think it is? To me this seems just like other mass shootings - the shooter had some sort of beef with people, their social environment or even society as a whole and finally decided to make as many people "pay" for it as he could and then go out in a blaze of glory.
It's hard to find any organized terrorist motive here.
I read that website last night (as did a few other freepers) just as it went off the air. It looks like the gun-seller did a no-no, as even all of the posts at FR have been deleted that quoted him. Most of the things in that post have now been released, including the exact models of the two guns and the man’s name.
The link was originally posted at post #15 (deleted) and quoted (with info) in post #21 (deleted). I posted at 9:08PM (post #75) that the website had gone off the air. It’s still off the air.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1818508/posts
the dude waxes poetic in his creative writing class about how he wants to kill people, VA Tech is so concerned that they send him to counseling, then nobody does anything to protect the rest of the students?
must be bush's fault.
Thanks. I was wondering where he got all his "skills". Filing off serial numbers, no ID, high body count. Looks like he was just a psychopath and left a note. He's also got an islamic name and reference as a tatoo. Many of the vics were just laying on the ground when they were shot.
Ismail is the name of an Iranian Shah from the 16th century. The name appears to be an Arabic derivative of the Hebrew name Ishmael.
See link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_I
One has to wonder why only excerpts of the note are being released or leaked?
I sure would like to see the note in it’s entirety.
Another possible theory.
It’s evidence. The leaks are probably from folks who don’t actually have the note but saw a bit of it or were told about it.
>We may not know anything close to the real truth for at least a couple more days, if not weeks.<
Now there is a real truth and a false truth? The Truth is the truth and there is no other Truth, in my Bible.
If not weeks, if not EVER. The colder the case gets, the further from the truth we may find ourselves. The MSM is now bent on humanizing the perpetrator. Will they end up by declaring his act was a cry for help?!!!!!
Perhaps our outrage has somewhat obscured our deep sympathy for the families of the victims. My condolences go out to them. (I have three grandchildren in college), and I pray God will give the families the strength to get through all of this, and I hope that someday they will accept His merciful peace.
The drive bys were reporting this and at some point I hear that this monster had entered the US through Shanghai.
You are right-—misinformation. Lots of it.
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