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
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