Great point. I don’t think the law could’ve done anything else with Cho, given what was known at the time. He stalked the female students, they got a restraining order. He started talking suicidally, they got a temporary detention order and basically forced him to get outpatient help. He was a sulking, closed-in loner, eventually his roommates ignored him. Nothing out of the ordinary, really.
But I’m really surprised that the authorities at Tech didn’t do something when the guy started disrupting a class to the point of keeping the majority of them away in fear. That’s a little more than garden-variety depression.
God knows I don’t want to lower the boom on any student who’s the least bit nonconformist or “off” (I was a huge misfit when I was in college). But when somebody starts being consistently disruptive to a class, something needs to be done.
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agreed and how many times does a guy have to come up on law enforcement and college radar until he is considered a threat?
i thought i saw situations where someone was arrested for making “terroristic threats” over something meanial....i guess that only applies when you threaten the politically correct.