I, like others, find it disturbing when politicians and various other loons use tragic events like this as a hobbyhorse. Pushing an agenda is downright disturbing during what should be a time of grievance. GTFO if you haven't anything to offer but your latest campaign slogan.




...School officials said Cho posted a deadly warning on a school online forum: "im going to kill people at vtech."...

The list grows of the WARNING signs present. Though, I find it difficult to place blame on anybody, it seems that the signals here were more than obvious.

Well, I feared this would happen but I knew it was kind of inevitable, given the situation.
Source article.

I was watching CNN during breakfast this morning and there was a small segment about this 19 year old student Kim Min-Kyung (a native of South Korea) who was actually packing up and leaving the campus for fear of retaliation from other students. That's the partial story.

Now... I don't know what any of these students are going through right now and I can understand a raging need to look for something or someone to pin some blame on, but this is just not the order of operations, people. It's just really disheartening to see that at a time when these students are supposed to be either mourning or in each other's moral and emotional support, some are already blindly stirring animosity.

They had already reached her current boyfriend, he was the "person of interest".

Why is that a huge failure? If there was more than one shooter, and he just killed dozens of people, wouldn't you want to protect as many people as you can?

They did peg him. He was referred to counseling. If he didn't break any laws, there's not much more you can do.

If the first shooting was a crime of passion, and 99.99% of the time, two people dead in a dorm room with no other killing at all would indicate that, then why do all that? There is no immediate danger to anyone else in a rime like that.

There isn't a single legitimate reason to think that from the first crime scene, the second would emerge 2 hours later.

Personally I wouldn't assume that the situation is safe until you've got a suspect you're certain is the culprit in custody, but that's just me. Maybe that's just hindsight talking, but that ("oh, we've got someone we believe is a 'person of interest' in this shooting, there's no way there's possibly someone else out there who is the actual suspect") sounds like an excuse and is the result of poor investigation.

Responding to this article on Reason.com, David Weigel notes:

Notice how everyone only finds warning signs of these types of psychos AFTER they've gone and killed people? I mean, people more violent in thought than that sometimes remain as harmless as a fly throughout their lives. But then people investigate the killers and then find enormous evidence of psychosis or whatnot. Could such warning signs lead to prevention or are we walking on privacy or paranoia here?

Looks like there was a court order proclaiming Cho was a "danger to himself and others." An "imminent danger." (source)That he was "mentally ill" and required treatment - which he refused. This wasn't just "counselling" I guess.

And he sent a package with video, images, and writings to NBC. This should be good.

Do ya have a source for this?

As I said it's not like they supplied the weapons and helped him carry it out. I do think they fucked up, just to some extent.

He obviously was a nut and sometimes the nuts will be nuts, no matter how many mental institutions you send them to or how many hugs you give them.

That was some fun stuff there. I wrote better in 7th grade.

They're showing some of the clips and pictures that Cho Seung-Hui sent before the massacre on MSNBC right now.

The picture of him with the guns is completely chilling, as are those plays he wrote, even if they are middle-school grade. :\

How long would you keep the school on lock down until a suspect is found and apprehended?

Edit: How would you have liked to be the USPS employee that signed off on his priority mail envelope to NBC? :(

This was made public earlier this morning but apparently the entirety of the video discs will not be released until the F.B.I. officially releases it. Lots of photos of himself with his pistols and combat knives and even a nice little shot of a table full of hollow point bullets. I actually want to read that whole "manifesto" document he sent NBC.

Haha what a fuckshit. So intimidating.

Anyone notice the uncanny vocal resemblance to Napoleon Dynamite?

Yeah, come to think of it, when you see photos of a KOREAN man and you're looking DOWN THE BARREL OF A 9MM PISTOL, naturally the first thing that comes to mind is, "Hey, look. It's that dancing guy from that nerd movie!"

Heh, I was just referring to the tone of his voice, it sounds as forced as hell

It pisses me off that the news websites are posting the stuff he sent to NBC (even though they can't resist, since they're pretty much vultures for this stuff). It's exactly what the scum planned they would do.

If his plan was to reveal to the world that he was as gigantic a loser in life as in death, then plan succeeded.

When he said "my brothers and sister that you fuck," was he referring to asianophiles? Because I think it would be pretty damn classy if part of his reasoning was all the white guys fucking asian women.

If by "classy," you mean "penis envy."

Oh, so Yama's existence partially caused all this? Fuckin' a, guys! Now we got one more reason to ban that accidental cumshot.

You actually understood him? I got tired of listening to his odd voice and changed the channel, listening about this incident for most of today is starting to piss me off. I can't wait for the next celebrity to die or Britney to do something so this can be over with.

I needs me a recharge!!

When I watch his video. All I see is an angry little boy that is not mature enough to handle what life brings. I see someone who blames other people for his troubles and someone who is mentally ill. He's just a little disturbed child that isn't worth anything. What he did was pathetic and it's unfortunate that he wasn't brave enough to face the consequences and did what a pathetic coward would do and took his life. I will spit on his grave if given the chance. I know that anger doesn't really bring that much good, but I just can't help it. That sick fuck was worthless.

Does anyone have a link to the video outside of CNN? I can NOT for the life of me get the video to play up there.

I'm Youtubing it but there's a lot of unrelated crap.

They're actually right on MSNBC. The clips are scattered throughout all their news segments but I believe that all the video that's officially been released is all there.