I don’t quite get a handle on this Cho. I have watched the ubiquitous psychiatrists on TV state that he was suicidal and wanted to die by either the police or his own hand. If this is so, why did he obliterate the serial numbers on his weapons?
If this is so, why did he obliterate the serial numbers on his weapons?
wow, what a great point!! Best post of the day and needs to go to Brit Hume.
I wonder if the package he sent to NBC was another play/story he wrote ???
Yeah, he's a one-off all right. Anybody who claims they can fit him in a standard profile is blowing smoke.
Are you seriously trying to figure out the mind of a delusional psychopath?
That makes me suspect he had other plans originally.
If this is so, why did he obliterate the serial numbers on his weapons?
Did he file off the serial numbers? Without the serial numbers there's no way to trace the guns to a specific gun dealer and purchaser. What if the guns used in the shooting were obtained illegally and had been used in other crimes before Cho came into their possession? Would law enforcement be able to trace the bullets to previous killings or crimes? Perhaps the package that NBC received documents those other crimes.
I'm out on a limb here. But ever since the serial numbers being filed off and the gun receipt were reported I've pondered the history of the guns. Also, if Cho filed off the numbers and intentionally put the gun receipt in the backpack what was he up to? Was it a message?
If the guns Cho used were not the guns he recently purchased from the licensed gun dealer where are they? Perhaps they'll be found latter having been used to commit a crime and traced back to Cho. Perhaps ballistics from the VT crime scene bullets show that there were three guns used by Cho that day.
If this has any merit it's unlikely that it'll be reported in the news. Pondering the history of the guns and what Cho was up to with them I realized a seemingly endless supply of "what ifs?".
why did he obliterate the serial numbers on his weapons?
You asked — “If this is so, why did he obliterate the serial numbers on his weapons?”
Well, just a guess on my part....
If he happened to have the weapons discovered before he carried out the plan, he might be able to say that he didn’t own them and didn’t know where they came from (being that there were other people around who had access to the same area). So, maybe it was from that angle that he was thinking.
It seems that he didn’t know that simply grinding it off wouldn’t do it. I hear that using a punch and obliterating it that way works. He must not have done enough research on the subject. Oh well...
But, nonetheless, he was under the assumption (anyway) that he could disguies the origin of the weapons, so that it wouldn’t be traced back to him. Thus, if they happened to be discovered ahead of time — he would *still* be able to carry off his attack — although at a later time, after things had “cooled down” (at least in his own head, he might have thought that).
And *that* would then fit the descriptions that you’ve been hearing about. He didn’t want to be caught *beforehand* — but rather go out in a blaze of glory after the fact.
Regards,
Star Traveler
If you ever hear an explanation for this fact - please ping me with it, would you?