He was bullied in middle and high school. Why he blew up in college?

Question

"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said. (cited from Yahoo news)

Answer 1

People should realize that making fun of someone can have very far reaching affects.

Answer 2

There's a difference in reguar bullying and when it goes to the next level. If 1 or 2 people can get just about everyone in a school to hate and pick on someone thats the next level and when you live with it for years, I'm guessing 6-10 years not sure how far the guy was in school, without a periodic release it all builds up and explodes in a worse way. In this case shooting 32 people and then himself. I dont know what this kid went through and I dont care, what happened happened and no one can change it now. I'm not tryin to defend the guy, but people keep saying they got bullied in school when it probably wasn't all that bad. I know I was and it wasn't bad at all now that I look back at it. I took it for a little bit, but I turned it around on them and showed them how it felt and they eventually quit. That's not gonna happen in the VT case thought. Eventually everyone will get back to thrie normal lives with a bad memory and some missing friends and family. They're not gonna give up the Vodka or anything else just because this happened.

Answer 3

I think its the extent of the teasing. Anyone can take being teased time to time but I can imagine he was in high school and in college. Do you really think after this happend someone is going to raise up and say "oooo ooo I pushed him around yeasterday"

But as I said some people can handle being teased more so then others. That is why some people do things such as boxing...etc to get rid of stress.

Answer 4

I don't excuse Cho for his actions. I only offer my insight as a possible explanation.

He made it very clear. It's hard for people to see because it implicates them by association. Their value system and lifestyle are very convincingly portrayed as the impetus for creating the murderer that he became. It's only half true. Yes, their values of materialism and racism put people in a desperate, hopeless, conditionof perpetual rejection.

But, it was very likely some radical socialist propaganda that he found on the internet that led him to act. People seek out what mirrors their own feelings.

There are hundreds of people in the exact same situation-on the verge of action. It can't hurt for each of us to look at ourselves...he went through a lot of trouble to point the finger.

Answer 5

People deal with things in different ways. The morals and fears you're taught growing up have a lot to do with how you respond and react to any given situation. I also knew plenty of people who were picked on in school including myself. Sure, I haven't gone out and committed any crimes but I have had a hard time with social situations as a direct result of it for many years. I also know former classmates who have since committed suicide and and claimed in letters to their families that they "never fit in" or "feel as though no one likes them or respects them". I myself would never do such a thing but I'm not them and they're not me. I think the answer to how to stop such things from happening has nothing to do with firearms. People were killing other people long before guns were invented. True... the death toll would be lower without guns due to the fact that unless you're prepared for such an event there's no way to defend yourself from it. If people would just treat others with the same respect that they themselves expect regardless of their race, financial status, etc I believe human relations would definately improve. It's not okay for someone to feel like they can't talk to someone for fear of being bullied. It's not okay to take your aggression out on other people regardless of whether it's with words, bullets, knives or any other weapon. Be kind to one another and understand that every person on this Earth deals with things, comprehends things and translates things in a completely different way. What seems harmless to some may be deadly to others.

Answer 6

Hopefully, that was not the case but hey I was teased, and jumped in high school and I am not trying to kill everyone. as a matter of a fact the people that teased me in school either have a bunch of babies or are in jail.

BTW. I own my own condo, and have my own business and I am living a good life... no one I went to school with is doing anything special with their life.

And people I didn't get along with... we are now friends...

Moral is: Situations do not always stay the same...

Answer 7

boo freakin hoo. Many people have been bullied in middle school and high school but the difference is they don't let it rule their lives for years after, they get over it, and do something good with their lives. Cho made a conscious choice to do what he did, he planned it out for a very long time then got everyone to fawn over his propaganda package. Come on people, being bullied in school is no excuse or justification for what he did. It is not cancer, cancer is a real disease. He seems to have planned this out all real nice so as to use this bullying as an excuse, throw in a little Marxist, class warfare crap into his video and he draws sympathy from all the little libs.

Answer 8

I don't believe that, all kids get teased in school at one time or the other, should that give every one the right to kill people? I think not.

Answer 9

I was bullied in Jr. High and High school and I never killed anyone.
People are just trying to make sense of senseless slaughter.
He was evil and went nuts, that's about it.

Answer 10

It takes time to build up the pressure! He must be timid for a long time and then....By the way, was he from Korea?