Some might say that if the killer hadn’t attacked at VT, he would have attacked elsewhere. After picking up tidbits here and there about the nutcase, I tend to agree.
he was a bomb waiting to go off for sure..
a caller to the Mark Levin show stated that we can thank the ACLU in part for this tragedy for they prevent any investigation into a persons mental health history. if this nuts mental history could have been investigated it is possible that he would have been disqualified from purchasing a firearm.
Just as Cho watched the media’s feeding frenzy at Columbine when he was 13, thus showing him how a disaffected youth with “issues” gains fame in this country, so there is no doubt at least one...probably more...such deformed souls watching the absolutely over-the-top msm coverage of the VT massacre and planning to beat Cho’s record.
After you set the new record, you send your video to a media outlet and it gets played all over the world with your crazy pictures and scribblings publicized and pondered over for at least three days, and everyone pays attention to you. Such a person will gladly die for this shot at fame.
There were no mass shootings by young men before the advent of television. That should give a clue to all the TV “experts” who make money analyzing this “phenomenon.”
I said yesterday that between the stalkings and the dorm room arson they should have kicked his butt out. For the VT officials to say there was nothing they could do is BS, arson is a clear criminal act. Sure, this might have triggered the same type of reaction, but at least the school would have done the right thing to protect the other students. Instead they coddled him, even going to the extent of one-on-one tutoring because the other students wouldn't attend class if he was present. Pathetic...the school deserves all the criticism and every lawsuit it gets.
Neil refers to Steyn’s NRO column about the passivity except for the heroic professor. It is remarkable and has been a pattern in other mass killings.
Culturally, we have lost a previously possessed element in our character where we try to thwart evil. I think of the early days in the west. But then, we had something to thwart with, like a colt 45. (I don’t own a gun, but I am for legally armed citizens).