What do you think of this Virginia tech shootings? who is responsible?

Question

how it could have been avoided.....

Answer 1

the shooter was nucking futz. maybe we should have hired a psycic to predict it... have some respect for the dead.

Answer 2

The one who is responsible is the one who pulled the trigger.

Too many variables to say it could have been avoided. Sure, some things could have been done better (like communication from the school to the students, or maybe he could have been raised differently - who knows?) But the bottom line is this: These are perilous times we're living in, and whether it was this South Korean or someone else, and whether they had a gun, a box cutter, an exploding tennis shoe or a 747 - ANYTHING can become a weapon in the hands of hate.....and there are going to be hate-filled crazy people loose in the world, whether we like it or not. The school could have had security working every door and window AND use the same equipment as airports to detect weapons.....and he still could have done some serious damage with something else (like a steak knife) before anyone knew what was going on. Hate finds a way....

I don't think the question is "How could this have been avoided", as much as "wonder why this doesn't happen more often?"

Answer 3

The gunman was responsible, but perhaps not wholly so; it is hard to judge culpability in somebody who is grossly psychotic.
This shooting would probably have been prevented if at least one of 2 things had been different:
1) if it had been easier to commit a psychotic and dangerous person for involuntary treatment, or at least detention; or
2) if data about severely mentally ill persons had been available to gun dealers, so that the gun dealer would have known not to sell him a gun.
I say the massacre probably could have been prevented, but not certainly. He might have managed to elude detection and stayed free even with easier commitment laws; and he might have found another way to get weapons.
Another thing that might have limited the number of casualties, would have been if anybody besides the killer had had a gun.
Also, it would be worthwhile for people to be educated about what to do in a situation like this, just as we are educated about what to do in an earthquake, hurricane, heart attack, or other emergency. One classroom escaped the killing because they barricaded the door so the killer couldn't get in.

Answer 4

It was Cho's fault. That is all there is to it.

Although I believe that there may have been hope for him at one point, he became so lost that there was no turning back. If people had given him a chance to express himself instead of judging him, I think that things might have turned out differently.

Although I feel compassion for Cho because he was verbally abused, he does not have impunity because of it. Some people are abused horribly when they are young, and choose to do something positive instead with their lives- take Dave Pelzer, for example. He was horribly abused (Pelzer), but he has written books to help people. The point is that we all have status as free agents in the universe. We have the gift of free will, and we can choose to do good or evil.

With a hammer, one may build a house for a homeless family. Or, one may take the hammer and strike people in the head with it. It's not the hammer's fault. It is the person who wields it.

Answer 5

I don't know if it could have been avoided. The only "control" anyone had over the situation was the shooter--and he was totally deranged in my opinion. He could have helped himself by following through with his mental health and getting psychiatric/psychological assitance. He was simply full of hate and it ate him up.

Answer 6

id give most blame to cho not the victims because the victims didnt no him at a certain level to know he needed help