If the gunman's family as well as schoolmates and teachers, had been more supportive, if American society in general had been more socially concerned, do you think the shooting could have been prevented?
2007-04-18 18:57:23 · 16 answers · asked by bob_i_ta 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
i geuss you can ask that same question about Timothy McVeigh or maybe to this one. On a hot August day in 1966, a 25-year-old engineering student and ex-Marine named Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower of the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building and began firing. He killed 14 people -- he had killed his wife and mother earlier -- and wounded 31 in what, until yesterday, was the nation's worst shooting rampage on a campus.I could go on and on,but what do you really think?
2007-04-18 19:10:34 · answer #1 · answered by thekid2064 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's fair to put all of the blame on everyone else. I have worked in mental health for a number of years. It is so ridiculously difficult to get a person civilly committed for mental health treatment nowadays. I think that if he had been committed on a 180-day hold (rather than the standard, preliminary 72-hours) he and everyone else would be safer. I think, from what I am hearing, that people at the school did what they could and the only thing that really failed was the mental health system. Teachers were aware and so were students. It was serious enough to them that they had him taken in to be evaluated. He should not have been allowed to go back into a school setting after just being forced to go to a psychiatric hospital. I think it is becoming more and more clear that the laws and rights of mentally ill people need to be reevaluated. It would be for the good of everyone- the patient and society.
2007-04-18 19:09:52 · answer #2 · answered by ppaper.wingss 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From what I've read the gunman grew up in a very loving and supportive family (as stated by the grandfather) and that the school was aware of his distrubance and had already recomended counselling. Considering that he was an adult they couldn't really do more than that. So no, I don't think that was the case in this particular instance.
2007-04-18 19:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Kainai 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-12 22:07:44 · answer #4 · answered by quellette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, do the math. His family has been in America since 1992. He was 23. So he WAS raised in America for the vast majority of his life. He apparently has a perfectly normal older sister who graduated from Princeton. Why can't people accept that sometimes serious mental illness leads to violence? It happens every day. What is unusual in this case is the number of people involved, not that it happened.
2007-04-18 20:09:47 · answer #5 · answered by ktd_73 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that would have prevented Cho's actions would have been to force him to get treatment, or at least be locked up, against his will. This is very difficult to do with the insanity laws the way they are today. He would have to make a specific and immediate threat before he could be ordered into treatment.
If somebody besides Cho had had a gun, of course, he might have been stopped before killing so many people.
2007-04-18 19:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, this guy had Ismail ax on his arm. Although the press is trying to downplay it, this Muslim connection and his rants against Christians including his support of 9/11 should have every American concerned.
It is obvious that there is more to this story. Before you start playing touchy-feely, let's see if this guy had any middle east connections. Al-Qaeda has been trying to recruit sleepers that are not of middle east descent.
2007-04-18 19:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by YRU4IT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We are a "hindsight" society. We won't believe something will happen...until it does. Then we scurry around for a few days, like ants when the anthill gets knocked over. And then we go back to our complacent routines.
2007-04-18 19:16:49 · answer #8 · answered by Varcan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
low social and family values yes, American no, this guy was korean to the core, did not accept western values, could not get along with westerners.
2007-04-18 19:47:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need a higher power in our classrooms, to teach us morals and values!
Born evil or Created?
2007-04-18 20:15:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋