"Political Correctness will kill all you fools"
Posted on 04/21/2007 12:27:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Students at Virginia Tech university prepared for funerals on Saturday for nearly a dozen shooting victims and extended a note of forgiveness to the gunman who killed 32 people on campus.
A small tribute to Seung-Hui Cho, who shot his victims then himself on Monday, has been added to a growing memorial of stones in the center of the sprawling university in southwest Virginia.
"I just wanted you to know that I am not mad at you. I don't hate you," read a note among flowers at a stone marker labeled for Cho. "I am so sorry that you could find no help or comfort."
The note, one of three expressing sorrow and sympathy for the gunman, a mentally disturbed English major, was signed "With all my love, Laura." A purple candle burned and a small American flag stood in the ground nearby.
Other memorial stones were decorated with objects including flags from Canada, Peru, and Israel for victims who came from those countries.
Nearly a dozen funerals and services for victims were planned on Saturday in Blacksburg and across the United States.
Mourners wearing the school's orange and maroon colors wandered the campus, adding flowers and scrawling messages of grief on makeshift memorials on the university grounds.
Graduate student Chris Chabalko, 29, said adding a stone memorial for Cho was fair.
"He was a student. Thirty-three people died," said Chabalko. "There's nothing anyone can do about it now. We've got to remember them equally."
Cho's family issued a heartbroken apology on Friday for the actions of the 23-year-old, who moved to Virginia with his family from South Korea when he was a child.
"He has made the world weep. We are living a nightmare," the family said in a statement.
(The order of Cho's name has been changed in line with his family's practice. He had been previously identified by police and university officials as Cho Seung-Hui.)
QUESTIONS, HEIGHTENED ALERT
Questions remained about how Cho, who had been investigated after stalking complaints in 2005 and treated for mental illness, was able to buy the two guns he used in the rampage.
Under federal law, Cho should have been barred from buying a gun, but wording differences with a Virginia law allowed him to legally get a weapon, a state law professor said.
"A person who has been found in a commitment proceeding to be a danger to himself and committed to out-patient care ... is disqualified from purchasing a firearm under federal law," Richard Bonnie, chairman of the Supreme Court of Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, told Reuters.
But under state law, he said, the prohibition only appears to extend to people who have been committed to a hospital, which Cho was not.
As a result, his details would not have been captured by an FBI background check system used by gun sellers.
"It is not a new problem. It has been festering for many years," Bonnie said.
The United States remained jittery following several security scares, and a hostage-taking at NASA in Texas on Friday that left two people dead.
Authorities in Minnesota said a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war was hospitalized after two pipe bombs were found in a pickup truck on Friday at a college in New Ulm.
The discovery on Friday prompted a brief evacuation of the Martin Luther College campus, while the bombs were removed.
The bombs did not appear related to the Virginia Tech shootings, New Ulm police Sergeant Steve Depew said.
First lady Laura Bush said in an interview with Fox New Channel scheduled to air on Saturday that despite the pain of the shootings, "Virginia Tech will be able to move on from it, and there will be a day there where everyone won't think every moment about their loss. But it's tough."
Like hell we do!
“A small tribute to Seung-Hui Cho, who shot his victims then himself on Monday, has been added ...”
They have GOT to be kidding!
The feminization of America goes on!
Three notes expressing sorry and sympathy for the gunman. How many people have expressed outrage but weren't reported? I'm with you on this, wagglebee!
“Graduate student Chris Chabalko, 29, said adding a stone memorial for Cho was fair.”
Good lord.
Cho was actually first diagnosed as an autistic, when he first came to the USA, and his parents could not afford help for him. Cho has the symptoms of autism. Autistics do not like to look animals or people in the eyes, nor do they wish to be touched, and they may not speal at all in the early stages of their life. The often do show uncontrolable behavior, and have inablility to sustain a conversation. I can not help but feel great sorrow for his parents.
"Political Correctness will kill all you fools"
I thought that Federal law trumps state law...??? There is no way that this guy should have been able to pass a NICS check !
As to the main focus of this posting, the memorial to Cho; I don't think he should have a memorial alongside the people that he murdered but I would say that forgiveness is a huge part of the Christian faith. Hard as it may be we should find it in our hearts to forgive. If forgiveness were easy then there would be no point in it... It's hard to do in cases such as this but we are better people for that ability to forgive.
Jesus gave us a gift, we should use it.
Right now, Seung-Hui Cho is experiencing new kinds of pain and agony. Take joy in the Lord’s justice - Seung-Hui Cho is truly wishing he was one of the ACTUAL victims now.
Instead, he faces a sentence ETERNAL, from which he will receive no pardon or pity. Even the minor twinges of shame and guilt some feel from such a thought of eternal punishment will have no bearing on God’s justice.
Oh I do have pity for you, Seung-Hui Cho.
I pity you, Seung-Hui Cho, not because you are a victim, but because I know that the LORD is just.
One of the pathologies I have observed during my years in academia is the stubborn unwillingness to make distinctions of right and wrong. This Chabalko will undoubtedly fit in well at one of our major universities.
I think it was more shame and ignorance rather than lack of money that kept his parents from getting help. I can’t believe he graduated high school and almost college without speaking or looking at anyone.
Type of Document Master’s Thesis
Author Chabalko, Christopher Carter
Author’s Email Address cchabalk@vt.edu
URN etd-08222001-111203
Title Comparison of Paul and Morlet Wavelets for Measuring the Characteristic Scale of Peak Pressure Events on Low-Rise Structures
Degree Master of Science
Department Engineering Science and Mechanics
Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title
Donald A. Jordan Committee Co-Chair
Muhammad R. Hajj Committee Co-Chair
Henry W. Tieleman Committee Member
Saad A. Ragab Committee Member
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222001-111203/
Would you say that about Jesus also? Forgiveness is a Christian principle - they were just following a tried and true religious practice.
Probably “feels” the same about Mohamed Atta.
Moron
Graduate student Chris Chabalko, 29, said adding a stone memorial for Cho was fair.
“He was a student. Thirty-three people died,” said Chabalko. “There’s nothing anyone can do about it now. We’ve got to remember them equally.”
This one is going to have to get mugged personally. Even then, I hold no illusions that it would change him. At twenty-nine, he’s well on his way to being a professional student and I’m sure later faculty and doesn’t set foot in the real world, even when confronted by a mass murder.
All of the tributes said: “Rot in Hell you SOB”!!
Wrath gets a lot more play around here than Charity.
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