I agree with you. I think the media focuses way too much on the killer and not enough on the promising lives that were taken from us.
However, if this thread is any indication... if the video had not been released, every paranoid person in America would be thinking it was a big conspiracy and wonder what “the media and the government don’t want us to know.” The tinfoilers on here are bad enough as it is.
Sad but true. When I first heard the news, my initial reaction was that it must have been a student or ex-student or someone connected with VT who had snapped. Still, ever since 9/11, I suppose there is something in the backs of our heads which wonders if something like this could be the work of terrorists.
As soon as the killer's identity was released, however, there should have been no more wondering about terrorists. I don't understand why people want to make this into a terrorist attack. It's a senseless tragedy. It was committed by a lunatic.
Perhaps it is that people can't deal with an unpredictable world where senseless tragedies happen? So they have to believe that someone is in control, whether a government plot, the illuminati or Islamic terrorists? That's all I can make of it.
There are and will be people who question why everything in Cho's package has not been broadcast and posted on the internet. Sad. Still, I hope NBC will refrain from going too far. There must be things in there the police would rather keep out of the public domain until they have concluded their investigation.
And Cho may have made wild and unfounded accusations against family members, professors, classmates which can only cause more damage and grief and are better left unpublicized. After all, the guy was very angry and very crazy.