shooter on the va tech campus

[Machx72]

Damn... I'm sorry to hear that. I hope nothing happens there... Or anywhere.

Hopefully security will keep its wits about them and prevent this.

 

[Speedball]

i go here

heard about it yesterday when i was at work. one of my friends, who also goes there got a text from someone on campus at the time.

holy s***!!!
I didn't know you went to ODU?

 

[GunBlade]

MARGARET CHO SPEAKS

Our Humanity
4/17/07

Whenever anything really bad happens around Korean people, that is when I would like to hide, go to Hawaii and eat spam sushi until it blows over. I don’t want to comment on it because I don't want to escalate the situation and I don't want to implicate myself in it. I don't want to 'come out' as Asian because therein lies a tremendous responsibility that I never volunteered for, that I don't have any real control over, and that is as mysterious to me as it is to someone who isn't Asian.

So here is the whole terrible mess of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I look at the shooter's expressionless face on the news and he looks so familiar, like he could be in my family. Just another one of us. But how can he be us when what he has done is so terrible? Here is where I can really envy white people because when white people do something that is inexplicably awful, so brutally and horribly wrong, nobody says – “do you think it is because he is white?” There are no headlines calling him the “White shooter." There is no mention of race because there is no thought in anyone's mind that his race had anything to do with his crime.

So much attention is focused on the Asian-ness of the shooter, how the Korean community is reacting to it, South Korea's careful condolences and cautiously expressed fear that it will somehow impact the South Korean population at large.

What is lost here is the grief. What is lost is the great, looming sadness that we should all feel over this. We lose our humanity to racism, time and time again.

I extend my deepest sympathies to all those who lost their loved ones, their children, their friends and family, in this unimaginable tragedy. I send them all the love I have in me, and I encourage everyone to do the same.


source

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I prefer what Stephen King said:

"I've thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called ''Cain Rose Up'' and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls' legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?.

As a teacher, I had one student — I will call him George — who raised red flags galore in my own mind: stories about flaying women alive, dismemberment, and, the capper, ''getting back at THEM.'' George was very quiet, and verbally inarticulate. It was only in his written work that he spewed these relentless scenes of gore and torture. His job was in the University Bookstore, and when I inquired about him once, I was told he was a good worker, but ''quiet.'' I thought, ''Whoa, if some kid is ever gonna blow, it'll be this one.'' He never did. But that was in the days before a gun-totin' serial killer could get top billing on the Nightly News and possibly the covers of national magazines.

For most creative people, the imagination serves as an excretory channel for violence: We visualize what we will never actually do (James Patterson, for instance, a nice man who has all too often worked the street that my old friend George used to work). Cho doesn't strike me as in the least creative, however. Dude was crazy. Dude was, in the memorable phrasing of Nikki Giovanni, ''just mean.'' Essentially there's no story here, except for a paranoid a--hole who went DEFCON-1. He may have been inspired by Columbine, but only because he was too dim to think up such a scenario on his own.

On the whole, I don't think you can pick these guys out based on their work, unless you look for violence unenlivened by any real talent."

 

[Erzengel]

Unlucky or lucky student?

Regina Rohde was both at Columbine and Va Tech.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18173672/?duck=true

 

[Machx72]

I heard about her. She's got a little bit of both luck and "unluck."

I'd bet she's traumatized.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

obviously shes subconsciously causing these shootings.

 

[kane9321]

obviously shes subconsciously causing these shootings.

 

[terry78]

Anyone catch the Sopranos last night? Message boards are flooded with comments about it due to the asian guy that basically was flipping out throughout the entire ep. Not really a link, but you know how people get.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

^People are so stupid sometimes

I don't get how people don't understand the whole "he got what he wanted" thing. It makes perfect sense.

 

[terry78]

^Yeah, I think they feel better assuming that he didn't want to die, so he got his just desserts. But in reality he planned on killing himself, so it's a moot point.

 

[Erzengel]

Course that Asian guy on the Sopranos looked Chinese and Cho was Korean.



Wow, Jeffery Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy were both white. Coincidence!?!? LOL

 

[Colossal Spoons]

^Yeah, I think they feel better assuming that he didn't want to die, so he got his just desserts. But in reality he planned on killing himself, so it's a moot point.

Yeah, he planned to kill himself and hoped that his videos would get played on the air since they're the only insight into his motives since he's not alive to question.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Course that Asian guy on the Sopranos looked Chinese and Cho was Korean.



Wow, Jeffery Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy were both white. Coincidence!?!? LOL

Somebody got me confused with OJ the other day

 

[Erzengel]

Now your fu manchu mustache is starting to make sense.

 

[terry78]

come on now erz, you know we can't tell the difference between the japs and the koreans. Nor the chinese and the viets.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Now your fu manchu mustache is starting to make sense.

I shaved it off last night

 

[Erzengel]

come on now erz, you know we can't tell the difference between the japs and the koreans. Nor the chinese and the viets.

Stupid round eyes.

 

[Erzengel]

I shaved it off last night

:cough cough: ***** :cough cough:;

Woo...allergy season is upon us.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Yeah yeah

 

[Varient]

LOL,.. (Monday mornings,... I swear.)

 

[AndThePickles]

I shaved it off last night

Praise Jesus! I was so happy to see your face bare t:

 

[Kyalesyin]

Has anyone else seen this yet? Sick, sick, sick?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/18/national/main2699800.shtml

 

[AndThePickles]

Yeah, I've heard about that

 

[Mr Sparkle]

^Yeah, I think they feel better assuming that he didn't want to die, so he got his just desserts. But in reality he planned on killing himself, so it's a moot point.

well, I'm one of those guys that says "he didn't get what he want"
because he's dead.
very, very dead.
so, the fact that they played his god awful Keanu Reeves impression over and over makes no difference, he is still dead, he will get no Joy from it.
the people that he killed aren't anymore dead or any less dead by playing these videos, and If anything these videos have served to make him even more deserving of ridicule and contempt than before.
he was insane afterall, I don't think that his stories meant anything or the fact that he was "a quiet loner" because saying that these things infact mean something means that people undeserving of certain scrutiny will be subjected to it.
simple thing in the end.
he is dead, and if we see the videos he so carefully crafted or not, it doen't make him live anymore.
should we erase Hitler from the history books so he "doesn't get what he wanted"?
nah! it's not worth it, people should be smart enough to know which people to idolize and which people to ignore and if they don't they'll find some other like-minded nutbag to worship.