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Va. Tech shooter was picked on in school
yahoo ^ | 4/19/07 | Matt Apuzzo

Posted on 04/19/2007 2:41:41 PM PDT by alcenoo

Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way he talked, former classmates say.

Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.

Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.

"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullying; cho; fairfaxcounty; gunman; vatech; virginiatech; vt
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To: alcenoo

Liberal media about to report he was picked on by white lacrosse players in high school.


21 posted on 04/19/2007 3:00:43 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: alcenoo

Everyone gets picked on in school. It’s part of growing up. You grow a thick skin ya don’t go and blow away 32 folks.


22 posted on 04/19/2007 3:00:44 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: BigSkyFreeper

“I was picked on in high school...” So was I and a lot of other people were also. That didn’t mean we had to take our frustration out on others by committing mass murder.


23 posted on 04/19/2007 3:00:56 PM PDT by tob2 ( "I may not be perfect but I'm always me." Anon.)
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To: Ron in Acreage
The first thing I did was to level the bully with a right hook to the jaw the second we stepped off.

You'd be expelled for that today. There's zero tolerance for violence, but apparently no zero tolerance for the bullying and teasing that leads up to it.

24 posted on 04/19/2007 3:01:12 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Gun Control Kills the Innocent...Not the Guilty)
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To: alcenoo

He totally sounds like Napolean Dynamite.


25 posted on 04/19/2007 3:02:13 PM PDT by JTHomes
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To: alcenoo

More nonnews. Fill in the name of each of his victims or each of the others on campus and you probably have a true statement.

Cho is a murderer and a coward who offed himself rather than be taken or killed by the police.

Has anyone been able to decipher the return address on Cho’s envelope. It’s 88 (scribble). His address on campus was 3250 something or other when he was committed in 2005.


26 posted on 04/19/2007 3:02:38 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: alcenoo

See, I knew all along it was someone else’s fault.
/ooooozing sarcasm


27 posted on 04/19/2007 3:02:53 PM PDT by conserv8ive1
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To: alcenoo
OH!
Well Hell that explains it.
I wonderd why somebody would do such a thing.
28 posted on 04/19/2007 3:04:50 PM PDT by DeaconRed (If it weren't for the United States Military-There would be NO United States of America.)
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To: alcenoo
Not an excuse. I can pretty well guarantee that I was picked on a lot more than he-who-shall-not-be-named-because-I-will-not-give-him-postmortem-publicity. But I never killed anyone.

Contemptible %&$#%@*(&^%$#@...

29 posted on 04/19/2007 3:05:55 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Past the schoolhouse / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / BURMA-SHAVE)
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To: brytlea
I wonder what makes some people more resilient than others?

Well in my case my Irish temper saved me. Four or five months into the school year of relentless teasing and bullying, we were in the classroom for lunch on a rainy day and a couple of them started pushing me. My fingers got pinched between two desks and I just unloaded on the guy. Teacher separated us. Bully told me to meet him after school. That was when I discovered he didn't know how to fight, so I proceeded to beat the crap out of him until my mother arrived and pulled me off him.

I got a whole lot of respect from everyone after that. Learned an important life lesson too.

30 posted on 04/19/2007 3:05:56 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: alcenoo

31 posted on 04/19/2007 3:06:03 PM PDT by oyez ( The right to owning firearms insures than no one owns you.)
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To: alcenoo
As a society, should we go out of our way to make sure loners and losers are given the attention they need ?

We should give every loner and loser a Real Doll.
32 posted on 04/19/2007 3:06:43 PM PDT by ribosomal soup
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To: alcenoo
I am a lifelong Conservative. Until Rush Limbaugh came along, I felt that I was alone in the world. The MSM mocked Conservatives and portrayed us as "freaks" and "misfits."

I never once felt like gunning down a classroom.

33 posted on 04/19/2007 3:06:57 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: alcenoo

He chose to see the ugliness in life rather than the positive. For every action there is a negative and a positive way to view it. He saw the negative, by choice I might add as most people by that age can realize this.

When someone bullies you, you can see it at lack or respect or you can see it as someone drowning in fear using you as support.

Some may say, “Well how can everything have a positive view? How can the holocaust for example have a positive view?”...The answer is it`s that positive view that saved millions of lives. People like Simon Wiesenthal who survived 4 and a half years in three different concentration camps (read that again, that is FOUR AND A HALF) years solely because he only focused on the positive of bringing Nazis to justice, and he did.

That they blame what this punk did on “Mental illness” or “bullying” is complete BULL! He chose his path and I find it quite ironic that he mentions “spoiled rich kids” as his reason for this...It seems to me the only one who was spoiled was him. He didn`t like it that his cowardice wasn`t supported so he lashed out like a baby does when he smashes his toys and stamps his feet.


34 posted on 04/19/2007 3:07:09 PM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
As has been discussed on multiple threads here today, it’s his fault. Not mine.

Yeah, well, according to that dingbat presidential-wannabe Obama, it's society's fault we didn't talk to him or be nice to him, or resisted the temptation to make fun of the way he talked, like he had a mouthful of marbles, by giving him a boost to his ego and saying "You've got a future in RADIO reading NEWS! You'll go a long way bro! Your voice is so clear, I can practically hang onto every syllable you enunciate!"

35 posted on 04/19/2007 3:07:10 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: alcenoo

I have no love lost for bullies. They are scum. If they don’t get a good kick in the butt, they’ll never learn.

And that includes Cho. From victim he became the worst type of bully, one that takes a life.


36 posted on 04/19/2007 3:11:14 PM PDT by Killborn (Age of servitude. A government of the traitors, by the liars, for the sheep.)
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To: alcenoo
Bullying is a severe problem in America's schools. Schools are not required to implement effective anti-bully programs. Administrators deal with victims by railroading them out while the bully is never punished.

I'm not saying Cho-the-psycho was justified in what he did. The bullying only enhanced and encouraged the psychotic ravings in his mind. Too bad people were too cruel to notice and get a counselor involved when it could have made a difference.

I was bullied in school being the smallest girl in the class. What stopped it was when my circle of friends told the bully that if she hit me, she would have to fight all of us. That stopped it, but today, we'd be labeled "gang members" and expelled.

Common sense solutions or taking matters into your own hands are not encouraged in today's schools. Tell the teacher or the principal and they only make life worse for you. More kids suffer in silence more often than not. No wonder kids beg their parents to be homeschooled.

Until the root cause of bullying is addressed, we are going to see more shootings. The bullying today is not like it was when we went to school. Some of it is downright terroristic in their threats.

37 posted on 04/19/2007 3:14:31 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Gun Control Kills the Innocent...Not the Guilty)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

“or resisted the temptation to make fun of the way he talked, like he had a mouthful of marbles, by giving him a boost to his ego and saying “You’ve got a future in RADIO reading NEWS”!

Hey, he coulda worked for AIR AMERICA!!! Or maybe NPR!!!

Gee, if they’d only have done a lockdown after the first two murders until they had some clue, maybe checked to see who was a problem at school...?! Like the guy the teacher refused to teach, or the guy who signed in as questionmark, or the guy with the stalker record... Then in two days the answer would’ve come in the mail!


38 posted on 04/19/2007 3:16:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: muawiyah

What was that place where you treat people who aren’t right in the head and keep them from harming themselves and others?

Oh yeah! Mental institutions!

Now whose bright idea was it to shut them all down?


39 posted on 04/19/2007 3:17:12 PM PDT by Killborn (Age of servitude. A government of the traitors, by the liars, for the sheep.)
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To: alcenoo

Kids pick on other kids. The more they cringe, the more they get picked on. As soon as they stand up for themselves, the “bullies” tend to back off. Bullies are essentially cowards.

I have NO sympathy for this loser—and that’s what he was, a big, pimply loser who wouldn’t get it together and make a life for himself. (The rest of his family seemed to have turned out ok, he could have, too.)


40 posted on 04/19/2007 3:23:37 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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