evading VA tech massacre?

hi everyone, i usually post here often, but i havent been able to do so in a while. It saddens me that this debate is what brings me here because one of my dearest friend's cousin whom i knew very well was shot and killed in this massacre. He will remain nameless but had went to Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, VA, where i live and go to high school. A lot of people my school who i have known for years from Stuart Hall (my high school) were there, but thank god they're okay.

I dont want to start this debate to blame someone for this, but what could they have done better to prevent this from happening in the first place, i mean without restricting people's freedom?

Yea I heard about that....Its really sad the death toll is like 33 now....

Sorry to hear about your cousin's friend. Indeed is sad.

Sure could have been prevented but knowing the shooter was a students himself its very hard to say.


FYI - There was post on this yesterday if are interested in reading the views
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=595402

Sorry to hear about the person

See, extreme reactions require extreme measures for prevention... You cant just strait-jacket somebody for this.. They could have prevented this if they got two hours gap in which the college authorities could have alerted the students about the dorm murders through email, local radio, word of nouth.. whatever. The thing is they didnt do this and allowed something to go beyond control...

The question remains why was Cho so distressed about? That letter and other evidences will have a lot to say about something or somebody who reacted so drastically....

Its the saddest day since 9/11 for me..... 😭

Originally posted by: egghatcher

my concerns absolutely ,

yes cnn is unfolding lots on right now ..... cho had indicated his ideations through his essays and chats with his friends on campus and it was left unnoticed .... one of the survivors tina harrison says she received an email just while the second shooting was ongoing ..

my condolences to the thread initiator at her sad regrettable loss of a friend on this campus .... i know how it is ... had no less than 80 friends and colleagues dying in the WTC collapse and havent been able to go to ground zero ever since .... and I normally dont flinch at death so go figure..

That's one side of eggy I never gotta see. I feel for ya buddy. It is very hard to put these kind of things totally behind you and move on as if nothing hashappened.

The whole Virginia Tech tragedy is heart wrenching....more so because it was only this sunday that my preteen was excitedly discussing with us her college plans....where she wants to go, what she thinks she's gonna choose as her major etc. She was so full of life and hope and here comes this deflator.

My heartfelt condolences to the initiater of this thread on loss of a dear friend. May god rest his soul in peace.

USACHICK,

I am sad to hear that.
I hope the family of the victim somehow finds courage from somewhere above. You take care of yourself and your friend okay? come here anytime if you like to say something. somebody will always be there. 🤗
luv & tc

very sad to hear about it. i am still trying to fathom why this happened.

may your friends cousin soul rest in peace

I am amazed and angry at the administration. When the person is distrurbed, it clearly reflects in his writings. The man had kept notes of wierd and alarming kind and in fact, the issue was serious. Whatever happened to counselling in undergrad institutes? V Tech is by no means a small university. I am deeply sad and angry. I did not expect it from a school here. very mad-very sad.

Originally posted by: mermaid_QT

I am amazed and angry at the administration. When the person is distrurbed, it clearly reflects in his writings. The man had kept notes of wierd and alarming kind and in fact, the issue was serious. Whatever happened to counselling in undergrad institutes? V Tech is by no means a small university. I am deeply sad and angry. I did not expect it from a school here. very mad-very sad.

QT did you see those writings - can u send me the link? its common to start seeing things of all kind in a post -mortem.. i saw that on TV.. Have they released any of this writings.. I havent see anything so far...I think its sudden rage....and what he wrote in his suicide note is not sign of a mad guy but a guy who is pushed to the wall somehow...

Originally posted by: qwertyesque

QT did you see those writings - can u send me the link? its common to start seeing things of all kind in a post -mortem.. i saw that on TV.. Have they released any of this writings.. I havent see anything so far...I think its sudden rage....and what he wrote in his suicide note is not sign of a mad guy but a guy who is pushed to the wall somehow...

This is an excerpt fromt he article DB posted in the "Mujhe Kuch kehna hai" thread:

Man alarmed instructors, classmates
A Virginia Tech professor told NBC News that Cho's creative writing was so disturbing that she referred him to the school's counseling service, but he would not go. The professor, Lucinda Roy, the English Department's director of creative writing, would not comment at length on Cho's writings, saying only that in general they "seemed very angry."

"I kept saying, 'Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,' because he was so depressed," Roy said. But "I was told [by counselors] that you can't force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too."

Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions.

"His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque," Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times.

"I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat," Derry said.

QT, counselling was there but the guy didn't want to avail it