What is the underlying lesson to be learned from the Virginia Tech massacre?

Answer 1

1) Individuals must be vigilant and take responsibility for their own protection.

2) Security guards and police can only provide a "sense" of security.

3) It is not possible to stop bullying but it is possible to react by not staying angry because the anger builds, it festers, the angry person ruminates and may finally go berserk.

4) Incidents of stalking must be taken more seriously. After the reports have been made there must be follow-up. Even if it seems that nothing is being done, women should continue to make the reports for each incident.

5) People with UNCONTROLLED mental illness are a danger to themselves and others. The operative word is UNCONTROLLED. More must be done to follow-up on professors and students concerns and some enforcement procedures should be implemented so that problematic persons attend counseling sessions and take medication.

6) Sleep deprivation can induce psychosis.

Answer 2

That "gun free zones" are really just "shooting galleries". I know that that sounds kinda callous right now, but there have been many instances where people like Cho were stopped because others had access to firearms, and were able to stop the shooter (Pearl, Mississippi for instance). I think that we are slowly giving away our rights to freedoms granted by the constiiution.
I think that if a person is diagnosed with a disorder that causes them to be a danger to others, as Cho was, then they should be put on a list that pops up for the background check when purchasing a gun. Sure, you can obtain them illegally, but maybe that would cause them to re-think what they are doing (maybe not, but who knows). That system could also alert the doctor, counselor, or school where the person is associated, and maybe they could intervene before another massacre happens.

Answer 3

Its 1:42 am here in Long Beach Calif. right now and I can't sleep because I feel so bad for the families that lost loved ones. My Wife and I have a Son that will be born in May and I can't imagine what it would be like to lose a child.

We all need to be observant of who we are around or cross paths with. If we notice that they need help or are depressed or we notice that they have mental problems, we need to do the loving thing and report it. If it's at school report it immediately to office staff. At work report it to management. We can't take any more chances with people and think to ourselves oh they will be OK. They need help. Again this is being loving to someone who might be to sick to get help for themselves.
We can't ignore the warning signs any longer. Life is precious and we need to help and love one another.

Schools need to have armed Police and teachers need to report a troubled student A.S.A.P.
Why does it take a tragedy before something is done?
We all need to learn that this can happen anywhere.
God is our only hope. Man can not stop the problems we all face on a daily basis. God's Kingdom is our only true hope.
Dan 2:44

Answer 4

Take the time to love your neighbor. If @ least 1 person took the initiative, maybe (& that's a BIG maybe), some1 else would have seen he needed help. Right there that's 2 ppl., who may have been able to help. Except the 1st line I wrote, that's 2 ( two) many maybes. It's all conjecture @ this point.
The only hope for mankind is the Kingdom of God.
Take the time to love your neighbor.

Answer 5

People are so ignorant.

Close the borders?? This guy immigrated here when he was 8 years old with his parents. Yeah, I bet he was a real threat back then. It was probably ignorant racist fools like you that drove him into the position where he was.

You don't need to arm teachers to prevent this. Teachers are hurting/abusing students in the news on a daily basis, why would you want to arm them?

Maybe if we didn't let a mentally ill person purchase his guns, this wouldnt have happened.

Answer 6

I think that Cho Seung-Hui was severely neglected as a child. When a person commits an act as horrific as this, there were unquestionably indicators of a problem early on. It has come out that he was possibly autistic, but that his parents could not afford and chose not to get him treatment. His parents and family could have prevented this, but they chose to disregard the problem and leave him alone to make sense of the world as best he could. His world was obviously one of devastation. I am not saying that this was intentional on his parents part; most raise their children mirroring their own parents. What is scary to me about our culture, is that there seems to be a taboo when it comes to pointing out parental mistakes. Can't it be, that even if it is unintentional, parents must be held responsible for abusing or emotionally abandoning a child. Children do not ask to be born. I think that in order to prevent events such as this one, a serious focus needs to be placed on early childhood development and parenting skills. It astounds me that we need a drivers license to operate a car, but not a license to parent. I say this metaphorically. Can you imagine where we might be if Saddam and Bush learned as children how to navigate relationships with integrity and take responsibility for their actions. Terrorism begins in the home. Somehow as a society we must start paying more attention to the grief and burden we place upon our children's shoulders. Its hard to look in the mirror and see how one has failed as a parent, but its the only way to break the cycle passed on from one generation to the next. I believe if Cho Seung-Hui was cared for and been given treatment at an early age, this tragedy may have been prevented. Help me to pass this message along and educate others. If you are a parent, check in with yourself on a regular basis. Apologize to your children so they learn how to take responsibility when it is their turn to be a parent. Pay attention and listen to your children, they are smarted than you think and they absorb everything. Lets do the right thing one child at a time. We owe it to the victims of Virginia Tech and to our children who may be struggling as Cho Seung-Hui did. Thanks for listening. My heart goes out to everyone who is suffering in the aftermath of this unthinkable tragedy. If there was anyway I could help hold your pain, I would.

Answer 7

Everyone should pay attention to the people around them. If someone is showing signs of violence or severe depression don't just ignore it. There were numerous warning signs concerning this horrible situation. No one acted on there gut feeling that there was something wrong with this young man. We need to pay attention and try to get help for people with problems. Maybe be more supportive of our fellow man.

Answer 8

Does closing the border gurantee that such incidents will never happen again ? If Cho was a white man, does that mean a white man is more likely to kill someone as compared to an Asian ? If a white American man harms or even kills your loved ones, will you forgive him ? Or perhaps even pity him ?

Answer 9

That we all need to learn more about psychopathy, and especially to learn that there is nothing we can do at the moment about this problem. It would be a great mistake, however, to allow them to destroy any part of our society because what they want is power, even in death.

Answer 10

It's a really rare event that so many are killed so easily.

Look at the rest of the country. So many lockdowns and successful apprehensions of crazies in other schools. Really, only one got away with it.

Violent crime in the US has been going down for the last 15 years, and we can be thankful for that. I think that was the main lesson.