Posted on 04/17/2007 11:48:33 AM PDT by hotdog777
Edited on 04/17/2007 11:55:33 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
BLACKSBURG, Va.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
"He was always really, really quiet and kind of weird, keeping to himself all the time," said the 19-year-old roommate.
The ideal college roommate. Except for the killing and stuff.
It’s so hard to make sense of such a tragedy.
Already the talking heads on cable news shows are making this into a new debate about gun control. So are some politicians.
There are so many laws already on the books regarding guns.
I know we’re not supposed to profile people, but this guy was apparently a disaffected clinically depressed, socially isolated person. The same could be said of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from Columbine.
Maybe, just maybe, we should try better to deal with such people. There were warning signs with this guy in Virginia. His creative writings had such a dark streak that he was referred to counseling.
Maybe, just maybe, we should be talking about some of those issues of depression, social isolation, etc. rather than reviving the gun control debate.
I bet that dude was in violation of a dozen different gun laws, and he didn’t give a *** that he was in violation of the law.
This doesn’t tell us anything. One of my college roommates was always quiet too, he just had a different pool of friends.
Quiet doesn’t mean weird.
I guess he really Cho'd them who was boss.
Did his roomate know he had 2 guns?
“A Canadian was among those killed.”
I just don’t see the importance of this comment.
Obviously he didn’t have them in his dormroom - because the campus was a “Gun Free Zone”.
The interview with the roommate first ran in the Toronto Star, thus the Canadian reference. It was a local link.
I remember covering a barricade situation in northern Maryland back in 1984. Some fellow had taken his girlfriend hostage and killed her, then killed himself. I arrived in time to see the ambulance crew taking the bodies out of the house. So, being the hard-working, young reporter that I was, I began circulating among the crowd looking for friends and/or neighbors of the gunman. I found them. I asked, “what was he like?” Answer: “A very quiet man. Kept to himself usually, but we thought he was a pretty good guy.”
I think it proves that you can never tell what someone is thinking. Nor is it possible, it seems, to act in time before something dreadful occurs.
God knows, we don’t need more gun laws. Hell, we’ve got enough of those for the whole world.
Prayers for the deceased, the survivors and their families.
It's a Canadian newspaper, bringing in the local color.
I assume the authorities are going to review that computer VERY carefully.
You are of course completely mistaken. It was the gun that made him kill. If he had not been able to purchase an automatic weapon in a supermarket, he would probably be researching Mother’s Day presents right now, and maybe sipping an dult beverage with pizza.
Since the gunman committed suicide, does that mean that the roommate gets straight A’s for the semester?
perhaps because it’s a Toronto Ontario source
The story was in a Canadian paper......
The shooter wasd 23..a SENIOR..the roomie was 19..what..a frosh or soph?..This is highly unusual, isn’t it?
So the problem is not guns, but the guy himself.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html?link=eaf
a sample of his writings
Is this him...from opensecrets.org
CHO, SUNG
OAKTON,VA 22124
2/13/2006
$2,100
Miller, Harris N
CHO, SUNG
OAKTON,VA 22124
2/13/2006
$2,100
Miller, Harris N
CHO, SUNG
OAKTON,VA 22124
NONE/NONE
9/28/2006
$2,100
Webb, James
Oakton is basically right next to Centreville.
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