Who do you blame for Virgin Tech massacre?

Question

Why are American educational institutions the most voilent ones in the world? Who is to be blamed? The shooter, the society, media, politicial, NRA or the constitution?

Answer 1

The shooter is obviously responsible for the fact. The American people,some of whom insist that guns are easily obtainable must also bear some of the blame. An example from the news.
Britain's 46 homicides involving firearms last year was the lowest since the late 1980s. New York City, with 8 million people compared to 53 million in England and Wales, recorded 590 homicides last year.
If you want to live by the gun you have a good chance of dyeing by the gun.

Answer 2

The shooter and only the shooter.

American educational institutions are not inherently violent. It seems that way, because when ever we experience a tragedy like this, it's all over the news; especially because it involves young people.

I don't know what makes some one like Cho snap, but I don't think it is unique to the United States. There are plenty of instances of senseless violence all over the world. I don't think there are any good reasons for any of it.

I don't think more gun control is needed. I'm sure members of the NRA are just as saddened and disgusted by the events as the rest of us. Law abiding citizens should not have rights taken away from them because of a few bad apples.

Besides, in more than one of the Jr. High/High school shootings, the guns were stolen, therefore; illegally obtained.

I think the media is despicable in many ways, but not to blame either.

I do think it's kind of wrong that not even 48 hours after the massacre, Cho's info and writings are all over the Internet.

Does anyone even know one of the victim's names?

Instead of focusing on the lives of the innocent victims we know the whole life of the shooter!

Answer 3

I think it is a combination but ultimately the responsibility is upon the one who took the guns into the school and used them. It is not the NRA, the constitution. The media and society if he is a product of America, to some degree,but he was the one to go out and do the deed.

Unless of course he was a mind controlled or sleeper agent. This is always a great possibility and at that point I cannot even begin to guess who would be responsible. It would mean this act was triggered by some branch of the government. To do what? Promote the disarming of American citizens as a necessity perhaps?

Answer 4

I believe the ability to avoid community is to blame. It's a systemic problem that WILL NOT go away until we deal with the root cause, which is letting people shut others out. We approve of this behavior, cliques, separation, ridicule, which has proven itself deadly over and over again. The separation we all allow among each other and dissolution of community, propagating an US/THEM mentality is at the core, and why things like this will continue to happen. With IPOD's, cellphones, computers, I worry that interaction is not a proactive thing. We sit around waiting from calls from our friends and family, while shutting all others out, while not reaching out to those who need it most. This is our chance to really ask what made someone capable of killing 33. Yes, suicide should be counted. Having a gun REALLY REALLY REALLY helps, but having a reason is what pulls the trigger. And NO ONE should EVER have a reason. We should focus on what the reason behind the trigger is so we stop our terrible-murder-spree-at-least-once-year phenomenon. The media portrays this guy as a "loner". How many of those do you know? How many of those can their be? I had at least 10 in every school I was in (I was a military kid and attended a lot of schools). To prevent tragedy like this will take a lot of work, work that seems too overwhelming, but before we let the chance slip away, like perhaps we did about other tragedies (the Amish school house, Columbine), let's finally DO SOMETHING to PREVENT THIS!!! Reach out!

Answer 5

1.I blame that its too easy to buy a gun.
2. All the violence depicted in movies(did you see 300?), video-games( shooters etc), TV-s.
3.I think the security on campus could have been better. What happened in 2.30 hours when there was a double killing on campus? The responsible people sent warning emails but who reads emails at 8 when student are in a way to school?
They should have locked the campus. They said on TV that they thought that "he left the state?!?"...
4.I think this mentally disturbed guy could have been stopped. It seems that his English professor referred him to counselors and reported him. But somewhere bureaucrats wrongly decided to let him go "for freedom of speech" or to cover a ugly story or incompetence.
5.I spent a lot of time on campuses and I saw lots of weirdness and sufferance. There is a lot of indifference
6.Also this guy had problems with police, he was reported several times for stalking and though he was allowed to buy a gun.
7.Also he was sent to counseling but it seems that nobody knows if he really went there. Again indifference.
8. Nobody really read and draw a warning from his "plays".

Answer 6

The shooter. No one else made the choice to kill those 33 people at VT. Not the NRA or the constitution, media, society, political. Only the shooter made that choice. Their blood is on his hands and his own blood is on his hands for killing himself. Now he can Rot in Hell.

Answer 7

I blame the shooter. I blame the politics of this country on how and why is it so easy for even a 9 or 10 year old to even get a gun in this country. Gun Control I believe is the blame.....

Answer 8

Blame goes to those penurious and mean-spirited "small government" types (i.e., REPUBLICANS) who de-funded mental health programs, making it such that someone as troubled as the shooter can only get help AFTER he or she has entered the criminal justice system. Another portion of blame goes to ACLU lawyers who fought a bit too hard for patients' rights, resulting in a system where it's virtually impossible for families to keep an adult institutionalized against their will, despite that person's being badly stricken with a debilitating mental illness (especially paranoid-schizophrenia and related).

Answer 9

Well said Junie
Heres the thing, this guy showed symptoms of violence in his schoolwork, the things he wrote even disturbed his teacher.
No one stepped in , No one directed him where he could get help....this along with the extreme easiness he was able to purchase a gun , all contributed to the situation.
Possibly he had schizophrenia, or just an anger at schoolmates, but again he was able with a fair bit of easiness to buy a gun and a stackload of bullets.
This is a major problem.....dosent it scare anyone at how easy it is to get a gun? It sure scares me.

Answer 10

I blame the shooter if he didnt use a gun he would of found some other weapon . he was a nut and they knew he had problems he should have been seeing a doctor for his mental illness