[Erik Latranyi]

This guy was not a Nazi, he was a communist. No secret decoder ring needed.

Do we really care which side insane people pledge loyalty to? No!

This was a loner looking for a sense of belonging. I'm sure he was fascinated with being a Nazi, a commie or something else at one time or another.

Cho is classic outsider wanting to "fit in". Mental illness turned that outsider into a threat that needed to be dealt with many, many years ago.

What groups he adored or what he proclaims is as irrelevant as asking if Hitler played golf and then painting with a broad brush.

[brookwood]

I see your point, but this man was not criminally insane in the legal sense. He was calculating and deliberate. Timothy Mcveigh was also not criminally insane, nor was the Unabomber. They were all driven to a degree by hatred based on a particular political/social view. In this case it seems clear that Cho was driven by hatred of the wealth of his classmates, whom he called "snobs" and "brats". This tendency to hate the wealthy is a common theme in episodes of class-based persecution, e.g. the French Revolution, the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the Cultural Revolution in China, and in the Cambodian bloodbath of 1975. I think it is important to recognize the danger presented by class-based hatred, just as the danger presented by milita groups was made obvious by Timothy McVeigh. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.