CHO SEUNG-HUI blaming guns, videogames and music ...more complicated then that?

Question

I've heard people blaming guns, videogames and music.People want to blame what is convenient and not look at the more complicated issue.

Just comparing Columbine here ...the thread between them... "persecution" by peers and the murderer(s) hating the "well to do" (Jocks and "rich" kids).

We are so quick to blame video games and music.... however millions of children listen to music of questionable quality and play violent games... they never turn this into anything evil.

While this has been construed as the worst school tragedy.... actually if you look up the Bath school disaster at Wikipedia. You will see that a guy killed 45 students and injured 58 with an explosive device on May 18, 1927. He did not ever see a video game, listen to rock 'n roll music nor did he have a gun. He was mad because his educational school taxes went up on his property.

So what is the answer.... if there is one?

Tougher handgun walls will not solve this issue.... faster reporting to enforce the walls we already have might make a lot more sense. If people don't have guns they simply will use an explosive device like what's used in Iraq every day.

In Cho case he should have never been able to buy a gun. Somebody really slipped up there when the judge ordered him for mental care over a year ago... that was supposed to be reported to the federal firearms division. If are going to allow people that are self-destructive, on depression medicine, and suicidal to buy guns then we have legalized herself to protecting medical records so far that we can't protect ourselves from those people that are mentally deranged.

Answer 1

9/11 humbled the world's only superpower. It turned out that the FBI, the CIA, a kiloton of tanks, and an ocean of aircraft carriers and nuclear subs were no match for passionate focus, coordinated communication, and a few $3.19 box cutters.

The terrorists "virtual organization" - fast, wily, flexible, determined - were far more effective, and deadly against U.S. gatekeepers standing armed against them with pencils and paperwork, and archaic computer systems that don't talk to each other. The CIA doesn't talk to the FBI. And nobody in the prissy federal agencies would deign to speak to a local yokel in Maryland.

Virginia Tech massacre is symptomatic of the estalished establishment's way of thinking/operating... like a dinosaur in the new millennium. Sad part is, schools in America are largely grooming and conditioning an endless supply of "establishment-type" dinosaurs for the future.

Read excerpt from NewYork Times:

"Anger of Killer Was on Exhibit in His Writings"

By MARC SANTORA and CHRISTINE HAUSER

Published: April 20, 2007

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 19 — More than anyone else on the Virginia Tech campus, it was the professors and students in the English department who knew of the mental turmoil of Cho Seung-Hui.

Where the Virginia Tech police only heard scattered reports of his harassing behavior, and mental health professionals knew of his suicidal tendencies, it was the English department — where he was a major — that read his writings and saw the images of persecution, revenge and anger that they revealed, many months before he erupted into violence on Monday and killed 32 people, as well as himself.

And those English professors and students appear to have worked harder than anyone to intervene in his life. Trying to balance the freedom needed to be creative against the warning signs of psychosis, as many as eight of his teachers in the last 18 months had formed what one called a “task force” to discuss how to handle him, gathering twice on the subject and frequently communicating among themselves.

On at least two separate occasions they reached out to university officials, telling them as recently as this September that Mr. Cho was trouble. They made little headway, however, and no action was taken by school administrators in response to their concerns.

The students also made their fears known, some even refusing to attend class as long Mr. Cho was there. Others tried to reach out to him.

(For full report go online to NYT)

Answer 2

Yes, it is more complicated and also more simple.
Seung obviously suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, in its most malignant form. Of course most paranoiacs would never do such a thing.
Nobody did this to him. It is a brain dysfunction. It wasn't caused by bullies or parents.
We need to look for a better screening system when selling guns, so that people with serious mental illness won't be sold guns. I think they have such a system in California.

Answer 3

I'm so glad you brought up that up. The media is so hellbent on focusing on our heavy music and our gun-toting video games that they fail to see that massacres like these started back in the 1920s. There are people out there who have problems in their mind, and they continue to grow and grow into big hate-filled rampages like we see on the news. The only difference now if that there are 10 different media outlets to "glorify" killers and promote ratings.No wonder we listen to heavy music and play video games

Answer 4

human beings are naive to imagine that when the ninety's (or 80's, or 70's or 60's), sturdy musicians unexpectedly grew to change into non existent. authentic, an large majority of typical rock song isn't all that enormous, that's boring, unoriginal and annoying, in case you go searching somewhat and do not position self assurance in MTV to inform you what to take heed to, you'll discover some remarkable expertise.

Answer 5

I agree. You never see parents crediting educational TV when their kids get good grades. Poor parenting provides these kids with the problems and time to do such horrible things. If you think video games are causing problems, don't let your kid play them, simple as that.

Answer 6

a lot more complicated than that, this guy will be studied and analyzed for the next 50 years.

Answer 7

That little baby is blaming everything and everyone except himself - the true culprit.