How stupid are cops to finding a motive to the Virgina Tech massacre?

Question

I see dumb cops with the motive in front of their faces are still spending tax payers money on looking for a motive that most smart people already know what the motive is thanks to the killers message and mass media. It's straight to the point unless your are cop?

Is thier a revenge motive from the department of justice to find someone else to punish for this sad event, sence they cannot punish the dead?

Can someone help make sense of this wasted energy of fighting crime?

Mary o
How are cops joing to save my life when their wasting time with getting information that they already have?

Quiteunique7
Thier a few cops I can respect, but most are willing to let you die for this country rather then to die for this country themselves. I guess that's why their not in the army.

Answer 1

Supposedly, they are trying to pass a new law where mental illnesses have to report to the Feds now and included in a background check. That definitely would have put law enforcement a step ahead and wasted less time.

They are just doing their job and going about a formal investigation like any other crime.

Answer 2

Right! There is NO motive. I wonder will they look for a motive for Cho's suicide?

A motive is a rational reason for doing an act that will produce some sort of gain for the actor. Or that the actor thinks will produce some sort of gain for himself or someone else.

This guy was a psychopath, there's no motive in that, and by definition there is no motive for suicide

(except in rare cases like when a guy commits suicide so his family can get insurance money [doesn't work because the insurance company won't pay]).

Answer 3

It is true, the motive was stated as clearly as Seung could articulate it. Seung believed that everybody else wanted to make him and people like him (whoever he thought they were) miserable, and that somehow the bloodshed would help the downtrodden.
The fact that his motive was delusional and crazy does not change the fact: this was his motive.
I can understand that they may be investigating further to tie up all loose ends. But surely they can say that this is apparently his motive.

Answer 4

I don't think they are looking for a motive, that would be stupid. Investigators would want to profile Cho's actions in the hopes that preventative measures could be taken in the future. I doubt the why is important or even determinable; what IS important is to determine which of Cho's actions should have sent up red flags.

Answer 5

I still can't believe the cops were cowering behind trees and cars while students were being shot. When they couldn't open the school doors. They should have driven a car threw the doors.They did the same thing at Columbine and the Space Center.

Answer 6

It's worse than you think.
Think about it.
They had a shooter and dead bodies on the campus and the shooter was still on the loose.
Like an hour and a half latter we see police pacing about while some 200 shots are fired killing 32 and wounding nearly as many over a period of 20 minutes .
When the shots go silent they go in to see what happened.
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The only thing I can figure is that they were so ham strung with protocol for proper Homeland Security procedure against a terrorist attack that they were utterly worthless.
Cho was a version of a robotic suicide bomber.
The place was crawling with law enforcement.
Until they picked up his dead carcass he may as well have been Al Queda and perhaps in his mind he was.

Homeland Security is a pile of----- " papers" ----- on this one and that's putting it mildly.

Answer 7

Apparently the time and money being wasted is no different from that spent by tax payers on your public education.

Answer 8

Why don't you stop bashing cops who knows one day they may save your life so stop they are doing their jobs and if that means keep looking then they need to.

Answer 9

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