who do you think is to blame for the shooting in Virginia?

Question

do you think it was the teachers for not taking any notice? the pupils? that guy himself? or government even?

it's tragic, what happened. they have my sympathy.

Answer 1

My personal opinion:

The faculty members, cho,Chief Wendell,and Campus security.

There's no excuse to why the campus wasn't closed down after the first incident. It's a shooting, not a fight or someone got stabbed. Two ppl were dead, point blank. That's more of a reason to close the f'ing school down. Why wasn't it broadcast over the loud speaker. A school that big has got to have a loud speaker warning students. They should've had security at every entrance when students were arriving to the campus to redirect them back home until the first incident was thoroughly investigated.

This is a cover-up. 26,000 students could've been warned in 2 hours. Someone needs to be fired for this s**t. This is unacceptable.

I really feel sorry for the parents and families of the students and faculty members that were lost due to this tragedy.

Please everyone stop making excuses for the Admin, and the Chief officer of the school. Whether or not, the first incident was a domestic dispute, two students were killed and that was enough grounds to shut the campus down completly. Two hours was enough time to get the word across campus and could've of possibly save 32 student lives.

Answer 2

Only Cho is responsible.

All the talk about abuse he may have suffered is just a means of connecting the dots to generate understanding and explanations.

No one should be held responsible for believing that he was harmless. He was harmless up until the moment he made the decision. No one but him, can be held responsible for his decison.

It's a better world where we believe that we are safe.
There are a lot demented people who will try to blame the government and society for everything. The very people-who likely inspired Cho-will win; if everyone starts pointing fingers...if everyone becomes suspicious of his brother...if we fall victim to their terrorism.

Answer 3

Society, VT school officials, police authorities,and finally the willfulness and mental disorder of CHO! Notice how every school official is watching what he says now, every teacher is back pedaling on how they handled this guy. And the police are using this as an excuse that they thought it was a domestic dispute as if this lame idea is going to relieve them of any responsibility in the fact that most of the people were killed in another building on the same campus just 2 hours later while they were still on the campus with a sizable force which were obviously doing nothing but looking for donuts and their next cup of coffee!

Answer 4

It is human nature to try to "blame" someone or something for all difficult times or trying events. This is why all cultures have invented a "god" to explain the inexplicable.

Things just happen, sometimes we can control them, sometimes we can't. Armchair quarterbacking is also human nature, because we can not accept that we are not totally in control of our destiny.

This nut in Virgina was an extreme. Teachers, schools, students, and parents, are not equipped to deal with extreme exceptions. These people are outside the bubble of normalcy and our system is set up to deal with what we can understand.

Also, there are usually just too many pieces involving too many instances and people for the puzzle ever to be put together until the ultimate event occurs.

Sure, now that everyone comes forward, and we can SEE all of the puzzle pieces, we think we can cast blame, because the picture of the puzzle is now visible. However, remember, the pieces were all over the place, hidden from view, held in the offices, dorm rooms, homes, and minds of many many people.

We just have to move on from such instances. Perhaps, some good can be done by reflection and introspection, but the truly disturbed will continue to act out horrific acts, and the good will be left to clean up their mess.

Answer 5

The guy himself. The teachers did refer him to counselors for psychiatric help several times and some pupils tried to get a restraining order against him. You could blame his parents, but then again, they did the best they could. The only way a person can change is if he or she wants to, so even if anyone said "hey, you have a problem" he may not have thought anything of it.

Answer 6

The shooter alone is to blame. He may have suffered because of bullying etc, and you could feel some sympathy for him in that respect, but it is not an excuse to kill 30 people.

Answer 7

The guy himself. Unfortunately there will always be people who have a mental health problem, as he clearly had. However, if all the students were able to arm themselves perhaps they could have protected themselves when he started shooting, perhaps somebody could have taken him out sooner. It seems so unfair he was easily able to obtain a gun, and yet the rest of the university populace could not have a gun and were like sitting ducks! What are the laws in the U.S. about school populations arming themselves to perhaps prevent them being a sitting duck again?

Answer 8

Monday morning quarterbacking ; he was obviously a sick individual who would have found some way, some how to accomplish what his sick mind was going to perpetrate on victims; the problem is that we subdue everything for sensitivity sake; in the old days, this wouldn't be an issue, there is less human contact, less human accountability, people are sensitive to adjectives, people compartmentalize themselves and others and this is the cancer that grows. You turn over one layer and there are 50 more underneath. Everyone is owed something. Everyone is look at for fault and blame ; this is a symptom of our society, the family , the fiber of America that needs to be addressed. You have to know what your children are doing; you can't leave people locked in their room with their only companion, the computer. You can't laugh anymore at jokes, you are afraid to say something for fear to offend or lose your job, corporate greed has taken over; politicians are self motivated; the poor keep getting poorer, we don't invest in America; we have our nose in everyone else's business but ours; we depend on other countries for fuel, for products , for outsourcing to save a buck ; the list goes on and on

Answer 9

I think the nut with the gun... but there are other factors at play, surely its time to look at the gun laws? Im aussie and we had a similar type of shooting 10 years ago major guns laws where enforced has made a major difference in gun related crime here. Just an idea...

Answer 10

I think everyone is to blame

Cho, obviously, kids for teasing, parents for not insisting their kids to be nice, (i was taught not to tease less fortunate children, and to stick up for them if I could), now parents are to afraid to enforce any rule upon their children in fear of not being liked, the government for not taking notice after he had been in for a psych eval, teachers for not making more of an effort.