Doesn't this massacre in Virginia scare us?? Those students could have been anyone??What do u think??

Question

i find there no point in this korean guy to kill 33 people and then kill himself. All the people that were shot were shot at least 3 times......most in the head..
This sounds like a horror movie!!!
How bad is security getting.....especially for schools.
What's your opinion?

And this guy did receive physcological help from the university after they saw his writings.

Answer 1

I think the horror movie really takes place in the interest of the media to jump on such a terrible occurrence. I feel that the media fuels the fire when it comes to tragedies such as these and it is a disgrace. The media makes heroes out of sick people by doing stories surrounding them. Why is it that I should even know that this person that killed all of these people at VA Tech existed? Most every person in the US knows all about this guy now and he has reached celebrity now. The best thing we could all do is not pay attention when these stories are reported. The media has one idea on its mind when it creates reports....ratings which in turn lead to more advertising dollars for the station. So they are exploiting a tragedy for money......PERIOD. How many of the people that lost their family members had to give permission for the names of their family members to be released? Are the families getting any compensation for the press coverage of their loved ones....if not, then why not? My father was shot and killed when I was 10 years old. I know what its like to lose someone that I love to violence. I am lucky that my father was no one special or part of a mass killing so I did not have to see his face and his story on the news every 10 minutes. I feel terrible for the families that have to go through this, even more because they can not escape the reality for even a short time because of the media. 9-11 would never have happened if it were not a 100% chance that the media would be all over it. Osama Bin Laden did not want to kill people just so they would die, he wanted to make a statement that the media would be all over so that America would go into a frenzy....and he succeeded. Even I look at people from other parts of the world strange now because of September 11th, but I would not even know about what happened that day if it were not for the media. The odds of me (one person) having an interaction with a terrorist or a mass murderer at a school are really remote. But these things are on my mind because of the media.....thanks a lot! I have a much higher probability of dying of prostate cancer and I do not even think about that at all. I am too concerned about people from the Middle East and Asians coming to get me. The media should realize that a lot of the motivation for these crimes come from the fact that they know the media will extensively cover their story and they will go down in history. At sporting events such as NFL football games a streaker would often get caught on camera running across the field naked. The media decided that they would cut away to the announcers during these streakings so that future streakers would not be as motivated to get attention. I find it interesting that they thought streakers were becoming too much of a problem and refused to air it, but mass murders are not too much of a problem.....? Many of these people are anti-social and crying for help and attention. When they do not get it by normal means there is one sure way to get it....do something outrageous and violent. I think the most important thing that can come from stories like this is to change the channel and not allow the media to make the kind of money they do off of these kinds of stories from advertisers. I am sorry about venting, but I felt that I have a valid point.

Answer 2

I'm scared and worried. I dont want this to happen again. Especially at the schools that my friends go to and at the university that I would be transfering too.

I think the security at the universities are pretty good and there isnt a big need for an increase in security. Most students mind their own business and keep their personal business out of school. Things like this dont happen a lot, so i think its especially tragic when you hear about it. I dont think the campus police knew where that bastard was going to go, so that was why they couldnt really stop him. If they knew where he would go, then they could have stopped him.

Answer 3

Well, I think this guy left a lot of clues that he would be the sort of person who would do this.

He was completely isolated from everyone (he wouldn't even say hi to people!)

I mean, I'm shy and keep to myself in school... But come on -- this kid sat there staring into space and ignoring people who said hi to him or tried to talk to him! That just screams that something's wrong right there.

He also wrote some pretty morbid, death related stuff in a play for an English class!

The University should have reached out to this guy and attempted to help him so he wouldn't feel so alone and so he wouldn't be driven to do this.

I think we need to look at society and try to analyze what he despised about it. He mentions he hated the behavior of college students, for example. Still, this is no reason for him to go killing people -- but we need to figure out why this affected him so much until he actually sought out this sad sort of revenge on the other students.

Answer 4

What scares me is that we are at war with Islamo-nuts who are well known for overtaking schools in military fashion and killing as many as possible.

The police and campus security couldnt even stop this 1 geek with a hand gun. What going to happen when Al-Quada takes over a school with a small army squad?

I can't believe in this age of terroism that each school campus does not have its own SWAT team and security guards armed to the teeth with automatic weapons.

These people need to realize that we are in a war and we are not in the 1960s summer of love anymore.

Answer 5

I am more afraid of the knee-jerk reaction to the fear this provokes. I haven't gotten over flying shortly after 9/11 and seeing National Guard folks standing around the airports with their rifles.....

That terrified me. Just that little tiny taste of military policing made my blood run cold.

There is NO guarantee that life will be safe, that you'll live till tomorrow, that nothing bad will ever happen to anyone you love. You can not legislate the kind of safety that's being asked for without giving up the rights that make America what and who it is. Be careful what you wish....

Answer 6

well I know that school officers are upgrading with AK47 assault rifles in colorado after the columbine shooting, but quite honestly if someone is insane and sick enough to plan and pull through a shooting there is really nothing that can protect us since our security system will allways have gaps. The best thing we can do is look out for strangers in our schools that are not signed in as guests or people that seem to be suspicious and tell a trusted school authority about it.

Answer 7

All the Security in the WORLD -is not going to stop someone from going on a killing spree. This is LIFE, & bad stuff happens. I really don't think that turning our intitutions for higher learning into maximum security prisons- is the answer.

Answer 8

I believe it had to be the sickest story I think I have ever heard. He certainly needed professional help. I think he was doing the devils work. I think the gun laws should be even harder than before. Start cracking down on this nation on how people even young kids are getting these weapons of mass destruction. Its so horrific to imagine that this can happen.

Answer 9

There is no haven of safety at school, in the workplace or even at home. Every individual should take responsibility for his own safety.

Security guards can only provide a "sense" of security. They cannot provide virtual security. The objective of the security guard is to take control of the situation, keep people calm, stop panic.

At the Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002. A disgruntled student killed two students before he was killed by two other students with their personal firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled. She referred him for counseling....but he would not go.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm?csp=34

“I kept saying, ‘Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,’ because he was so depressed,” Roy said. But “I was told [by counselors] that you can’t force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too.”

Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions.

“His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times.

“I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat,” Derry said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/

A copy of Cho's play entitled "Richard McBeef," can be found at thesmoking gun website. The bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with "a deadly blow." (10 pages)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

Cho also wrote a second play, entitled "Mr. Brownstone"; the play is named after a Guns N' Roses song and contains lyrics copied verbatim from the song. Both plays are available on the website below.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

Answer 10

Which means if you see those weird kids in school don't make fun of them to add stress. Be kind and caring to people. May be that'll give these future 'school shooters' second thought. Instead of being scared and paranoid of werid/strange kids in school. I don't know what this guy's problem was, but in many cases people bottle up anger, often creating 'hit list.'

Calling some 'nerd' mean names could mean bullet in your head now days.