I saw parts of the video and it was so sad. He looked like an empty shell. There is pain everywhere. The victims families, school staff, survivors. Did these people deserve to die, NO! But when hearing that Cho was bullied in school and made fun of, do you know what that does to a child, any human being?! It kills their spirit. That is the problem that seems to be overlooked. He had no right to take someone elses life, but he was dead inside. Who killed him?
2007-04-20 04:01:13 · 21 answers · asked by newcalvary2003 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Actually I am Not a flaming liberal as you say. I just know that one of my kids was picked on so badly last year and the school did very little about it! My son went from a happy confident child at one school to a fearful shy child at another. There is no excuse for murder!! But Cho as an individual no longer existed, just this empty person! Maybe some of you have never been picked on so you have no idea what damage it can do!!
2007-04-20 04:16:08 · update #1
Enough about the bullying! I was bullied incessantly from 3rd grade through high school. Did I feel the need to lash out violently at others? Did I decide in advance to go buy two guns and slaughter 32 innocent people? Absolutely not!! I chose to not let it break my spirit, though at times that was extremely difficult and even drove me close to suicide a few times. I chose to show that I was better than those bullying me by working hard and excelling academically. Most importantly, I chose to find refuge in family, friends, and teachers who loved and supported me.
All this talk about wanting to support him and that he needed more understanding from those around him is complete BS. He made his choice: to carry out the ultimate act of evil by massacring innocent people with premeditation. Certainly that much can be gained by watching the video.
2007-04-20 04:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by krustykrabtrainee 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
your right about one thing.. the schools do very little to help a child out when there being picked on.. hell some of the teachers even join in on the fun,,they just do it in a different way,,, always getting on the child about something,, or calling on them when they already know the child cant answer the questions..but if cho wanted to go get back at someone... maybe he should have picked the kids that were cruel to him.. not saying that i agree with that sort of thing.. but don't take it out on innocent people.. just the bullies.. and you know something.. some parents look up to their children if they are bullies.. even encourage it..
2007-04-20 13:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by vis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel sorry in the sense that he didn't get the psychological help he needed. Racism is an awful thing to endure (kids made fun of him and told him to go back to China when he read outloud) and there were so many warning signs. I agree that killing wasn't the answer to his personal problems, but I think he was just so trapped in his environment that he took extreme measures. It's such a shame that the efforts to reach out to him were rejected. I think that by the time people started to care, he had long stopped caring about them and about himself. I still think, though, that out of compassion for his victims, his parents should issue a public apology on behalf of their son or at least to express their sympathy to those who have lost their lives.
2007-04-20 11:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by keonli 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cho was clearly very sick. He chose what he did, and the responsibility of his acts rests on him. However, this gives us an opportunity to look at how we in the country treat those we see as different from us. I'm not at all making excuses for his behavior, he did something horrendous. However, simply writing him off as a monster does not in the least help to figure out how to avoid something like this in the future. We might do well to look around our own lives and see if there is anyone we know that might need a listening ear or to feel appreciated or accepted.
2007-04-20 13:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by jb54 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The court system and the school professors cared more about his problems and how it can translate to becoming a problem for others, but his family seems to have forsaken him. His great aunt (speaking from Korea), said that he was always disturbed. Why did the family wait until a judge mandated his treatment (they can only treat him for 72 hours, then they release him to seek help on his own or through family). I feel bad for his parents, but it sounds like they let him down by neglecting his obvious needs for treatment. They allowed for him to self destruct and take other innocent lives too.
2007-04-20 11:16:50 · answer #5 · answered by TJTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think his actions should be disected by the FBI-he should be studied to see if any info can help in future shootings (well to stop them). Other than that I don't think this person deserves any further attention. Yes he was bullied, his relatives say that his mother was afraid of him, that he had a speech problem, that the mother said she was told he was autistic after coming to the US. The list goes on and on, this kid had problems that seem to have been present from early childhood that no one ever took seriously enough to seek help for. But does the fact that you get picked on give you a free ride for later actions-no. I hope that the proper authorities can learn from him. But will I ever feel sorry for him or feel that he was a victim in all of this-no. There is nothing that can come out to make me think he deserves any sympathy from me for what he did.
2007-04-20 11:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by VAgirl 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are silly, and obviously your friend, child, brother, sister, father was not shot monday morning.
Who killed him? The same person who shot him. Himself. He was selfish. A selfish boy who did not grow up. Worst mass muder in US History, yet no know knew him before? I don't think that he had any right, or was driven off the edge. for him to think that he was that ill treated to do what he did.
2007-04-20 11:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Gyasi M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if we simply cast him aside as a monster we contribute to a society that helped create someone like him.
He is to blame for everything that happened, but I can't help but wonder if this could have been prevented if people actually cared enough about him beforehand. Bullying didn't do this, but it certainly didn't help.
2007-04-20 11:18:51 · answer #8 · answered by koreaguy12 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever wonder on the hopes of his elders in migrating to a foreign land in getting a bright future for the little one being turn into smokes and ashes in planet of apes.
Ever wonder how the elders have to live with that misery over the loss of the great American dreams in planet of apes?
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors created in own backyards being expose with time in planet of apes.
2007-04-20 11:11:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We need to have a ZERO tolerance on bullying. This needs to start early in the home, and from preschool on in the schools. Maybe then we might have some hope of this not happening again.
2007-04-20 11:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by MOMMYBEST 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋