My thoughts are with all the families that have lost someone they loved.

Truly Tragic. And scary at the same time. WHo knows what triggers off kids like that. To think that the person standing next to you could pull out a gun and shoot you - damn. How do we foretell? How do we predict who's gonna do this kind of a macabre act>?

That campus is almost 2600 acres. It was really unwise to not have an effective security system in place.

They'll have one in place now, after this incident will have problably blaming themselves for not having one in place

I hope they do.

This is unfortunate, but before we start arguing about what should have happened, you have to look at this from the University's side. With a school of 25,000 a single shooting is bound to happen. That's what they thought happened, so they just locked down the dorm, and when they didn't find the gunman, they assumed that he fled the school. I agree that they should have searched the campus, but it's a big campus (2,600 acres), and it would take a lot of cops a long time to search it.

I agree.

Some people are just so screwed in the head.

Appearantly he killed 2 people and for two hours was making a videeo that he sent to CNN and then he went to kill all of the others and himself, CNN received the video this morning I think.

Anyone who tapes himself to talk about killing and refers to himself as Jesus is mad.

He may've been mad, mentally ill, but nonetheless none of us know if he was a bad person. He could've been a good person, that did something horrible.

Agreed.



Well then doing such makes him a bad person.

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I heard about how in his videos he sent to NBC he went on rants and tirades about rich kids and stuff.

I was gonna mention Liviu Librescu but I can see Kay already did that. Still, he was just outright brave and heroic for those students. I mean, the man survived the Holocaust and Ceausescu's regime, too.

But back to the topic, I don't care who you are and what your beliefs are, but killing 32 people because of hating rich kids is beyond any and all form of rational thought.

It seems he's always been crazy. I remember hearing he used to stalk these two girls, and I'm pretty sure I know he was labeled as a "threat to himself" by some psychiatrist at one point or another.

Also, I don't know how reputable this is since I'd imagine major places like CNN to talk about it, but apparently Cho's father killed himself, and his mother tried to, also. Well...reportedly.

english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200704/200704180028.html

yes, but that is no excuse not to have had a significantly sophisticated security network in place. Had that been in place, things may have turned out differently. Out of the 32 killed, if even one more could've been saved - even that would have made a difference.

And I am inclined to agree with Kay and Shadowyone both of u.

We don't really know what triggered him off = he may not have been a bad person really. Right now, all everyone is doing is putting bits and pieces together and speculatiing why he did this.

Then again, as SO said, doing what he did goes beyond a rational human being -- seems almost pyschotic and insane.

All I have to say is that his/her family

Very sad, Indeed, I just wonder what's going to happen now, once everything is back to normal, which might not be normal for some people, but all you can do is hope for the best

The one thing that I hate most is how people think that they can't go anywhere near Virginia now. I was talking with my mom about colleges that I was thinking about, and I said VT, and she was like "OMG! Why would you want to go to such a horrible place!?" Despite this isolated incident, Virginia Tech is still a really good school, and just because of this one event, people shouldn't avoid it forever