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Reasons why Virginia Tech is the worst devastation in U.S. history after 911 and Katrina.
Bitched on: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Time: 4/18/2007 12:18:00 PM
Time: 4/18/2007 12:18:00 PM
Its the deadliest school shooting in American history with 33 dead and 20 injured (to date). The dead includes the shooter himself who has been identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean who had migrated to the States when he was 8. He was a senior in the English department.
He had been described as a 'depressed and deeply disturbed young man' and this was not left unnoticed as his 'grotesque' creative writing projects led a professor to refer him for psychological counseling. "He was very quiet, always by himself," said a neighbour. Few knew who he was. Few knew he existed maybe.
Apparently his body was found with a note containing 'obscenities and denunciations' of 'rich kids' (his parents worked at a dry cleaners).
There wasn't just one shooting, there were two.
What's more controversional is how the university had acted after the first shooting, prior to the second shooting. Many questions had been raised about how they had handled and should have handled it.
The first shooting was reported to have occured at 7.15am at a coed dormitory, Ambler Johnston Hall. The shooting left 2 persons dead. It wasn't until 2 hours later at 9.26am, when emails were sent out to staff and students regarding the gunfire. A second email sent out a few minutes later issued a warning regarding the gunman who was still on the loose.
So why this 2 hours disparity?
Most of the students who came to school were unaware of such emails, reports say, as most had already left their house, on the way to school when the emails were sent out.
And why wasn't school cancelled immediately?
The second shooting, 3 hours after the first shooting, left 30 more dead and 20 injured. Finally, the school issued a warning in a third email that classes were cancelled and students were told to remain indoors.
Too little too late.
Who is to be blamed?
The shooter? The bullies whom he detested for making his life difficult? His parents for not seeing this sooner? The school for reacting slowly to the first shooting and not cancelling classes immediately?
Or the flawed American school system - favouring the talented, labelling the losers and turning a blind eye to the bullying?
Or the U.S. government for not banning firearms in the first place?
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He had been described as a 'depressed and deeply disturbed young man' and this was not left unnoticed as his 'grotesque' creative writing projects led a professor to refer him for psychological counseling. "He was very quiet, always by himself," said a neighbour. Few knew who he was. Few knew he existed maybe.
Apparently his body was found with a note containing 'obscenities and denunciations' of 'rich kids' (his parents worked at a dry cleaners).
There wasn't just one shooting, there were two.
What's more controversional is how the university had acted after the first shooting, prior to the second shooting. Many questions had been raised about how they had handled and should have handled it.
The first shooting was reported to have occured at 7.15am at a coed dormitory, Ambler Johnston Hall. The shooting left 2 persons dead. It wasn't until 2 hours later at 9.26am, when emails were sent out to staff and students regarding the gunfire. A second email sent out a few minutes later issued a warning regarding the gunman who was still on the loose.
So why this 2 hours disparity?
Most of the students who came to school were unaware of such emails, reports say, as most had already left their house, on the way to school when the emails were sent out.
And why wasn't school cancelled immediately?
The second shooting, 3 hours after the first shooting, left 30 more dead and 20 injured. Finally, the school issued a warning in a third email that classes were cancelled and students were told to remain indoors.
Too little too late.
Who is to be blamed?
The shooter? The bullies whom he detested for making his life difficult? His parents for not seeing this sooner? The school for reacting slowly to the first shooting and not cancelling classes immediately?
Or the flawed American school system - favouring the talented, labelling the losers and turning a blind eye to the bullying?
Or the U.S. government for not banning firearms in the first place?
See more:
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1 Comments:
definitely the last one. snowballs to this level now.
but hey, it's cowboy country over there isn't it?
they don't value life or the whole concept of life-preservation.
not enough oil? just go to some country, kill their people, grab the oil.
not happy with someone? just walk up to him with a gun and shoot him.
not happy with the system? kill everyone.
everyone can get their hands on a gun there, it's so easy. people use guns as a way out.
it's not enough just shooting yourself, you gotta take everyone down with you over there.
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