Has anyone thought about attending this school or attends it now or has attended it in the past?
What are your thoughts.... i never heard of this school but it was all very shocking.
2007-04-18 09:27:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
well, the availability of guns in some states should give one pause. I went to a school in VA and if I had known how many guns there were right around me, I would have gone to school in Philadelphia
2007-04-18 10:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by coquinegra 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not shocked anymore. I watched the compound at Waco burn down killing dozens back in the 80's. I watched the Columbine coverage and experienced a "copycat" killing a few miles from my house months later. I have watched people jumping to their deaths from the WTC on 9-11. The death of hundreds of school children and teachers in Belsan, Russia when they were held hostage by the Chechen terrorists. The beheading of American hostages and dragging of burned soldier's bodies by A.Q. on the internet.
That this happened at Virginia Tech is insignificant. It could happen anywhere. There is nothing that this school did or did not do that could have prevented this kind of thing. Everyone wants someone to blame. How about we all blame the nutjob who killed those people?
Nothing is shocking to me because I have learned that I only have enough in me to influence my own family in my own little space in the world. I cannot do anything but say a prayer and move on.
2007-04-18 16:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by SouthernGrits 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't single them out - I suspect that there are a whole bunch of schools where something like this could happen. Colleges can put you under a lot of strain, particularly if you're not terribly socially comfortable. People are "groupies" after all; we need to belong to some group. or life gets hard to bear. It's not just elephants who "go rogue". This guy was pretty far out there, but most of us have known (or have been) someone a lot like him at one time or other. The difference is, he went over the edge and we didn't.
From everything I've heard, and people I know who have gone there, I think VT is a very good school in a very nice area. This disaster doesn't change that.
2007-04-18 16:40:33 · answer #3 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the person that said he was a loner and that people should have helped him.. would you have helped him? He refused help, he kept to himself. If he wanted to have interaction he could have tried, it isn't anyone else's fault. They tried to get him counseling and he refused, so don't blame the other people for what some lonely kid did. He's a monster for killing so many innocent people. Why couldn't he have just killed himself and be done with it? I don't care how lonely or depressed he was, he didn't want help, so this whole thing was his fault alone, he had the gun, he killed so many bright young students and teachers, so don't have a little pity party for him.
2007-04-18 17:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by Britt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I can think of is that you can't blame a school for what ONE student did. I feel very sad for those that went through that. Here in Canada
we have had a number of incidents like this. A friend of ours was shot trying to
save other students. He's ok. The problem was a student trying to kill his former
girlfriend and I think her new boyfriend.
2007-04-18 16:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by Garnet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The shooter was a "loner", they say. Ooops, and whose fault was that? In my opinion, he was ignored by other students. They were callous and unhelpful. They should have helped him to deal with his problems instead of ignoring him.
.
2007-04-18 16:50:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋