Other constitutional and substantive individual rights exercised by and for Cho made his massacre possible which are never mentioned. His right of privacy kept the fact of his mental illness from those who could act on it; his right against unreasonable search and seizure allowed him to hide firearms in his dorm, where they were prohibited by law; his right of free speech permitted him to communicate his violent nature but prevented those who could act from doing so, lest his right to speak freely be ‘chilled’. And yet, no one talks about curtailing those rights for all of us to protect the few. Civil rights organizations tell us that the toll in blood for protection of our rights against search and seizure, privacy and free speech is an acceptable cost for our civil liberties. But the Second Amendment is never included in that discussion. The Bill of Rights is not a menu from which we can pick and choose, and any guarantee of our forefathers that can be repealed by the whim of a minority in our society sets the standard for treatment of the others, and endangers them all.
He lived in a dorm owned and operated by Virginia Tech. Technically, Virginia Tech was his landlord. They could have gone in at any time.