[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.

[Erik Latranyi]

see your point, but this man was not criminally insane in the legal sense. He was calculating and deliberate.

Which is why the Commonwealth of Virginia found him to be at risk of committing harm to himself and others.

The motivations are not as important as segregating these types from civilized society.....whatever the motivation.

Class-based hatred does not need any special attention. I do not want to be considered a class-hater because I think the majority of the poor are lazy.

But that is what you will get if you allow our current society to drift into such a debate.

I prefer to keep the matter focused on a clearly dangerous person who was identified by everyone including the courts, yet suffered no consequences.

That is the failure that needs to be focused upon.