"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 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.
I assume the authorities are going to review that computer VERY carefully.
Since the gunman committed suicide, does that mean that the roommate gets straight A’s for the semester?
So the problem is not guns, but the guy himself.
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.
Aren't you interviewed or something by a counselor?
And (though I haven't read this, but assume .. ) after 3 plus years ... NOone saw anything strange?
This guy should have been on the boards instead of in general population.
Imagine......just sitting around, not talking to anybody, just typing away on the computer all the time, to who knows who?.... What a wierdo!..............uhhhh.....wait a minute......
Sounds like the roommate is very lucky to be alive.
Age 23 - came here in 1992 to “study English”..? - At age 8?
So what was he doing between 1992 and 2007 - had to have gone thru the US (Virginia?) public school system (grades 3 thru 12)...
I have seen no details on this
His phone calls from china at 0300 were the only sticking point.
Disturbed-looking picture. No affect, thousand yard stare.
Mrs VS
Our #2 son's first year roommate was a young Korean man who wouldn't speak to him either, but he didn't go on a shooting rampage.
Being a loner doesn't mean one is a killer, or even has a propensity to be one. Even being a loner who writes disturbing stories for English class doesn't mean one is a killer. Just take a look at what passes for literature in most college English courses today, and you'll see that if students are trying to emulate modern authors, they most likely WILL write something that is disturbing or graphic, even if they are the happiest, most level headed people in the world.
Did dry cleaning solvents affect Cho’s brain?