Virginia Tech: One Year Later

[JaD]

Thoughts?​

How'd you feel when this first happened? Have we changed much since then?


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[Nell2ThaIzzay]

has it already been a year?

 

[Bubonic]

Wow, when you see it like that sort of brings it home how many people it actually was.
Really sucked... But doesn't seem like things changed much...

Hasn't there been an uncanny amount of random shootings in the last 6 months?

 

[JaD]

Unfortunately yeah, and when I see all those faces like that, it's sad that they all had the same fate in one event. Tragic.

 

[Zumi]

When it happened I was at work and had a damn near break down since I have a lot of friends who go to school there yet didn't have my phone on me to call and check on them. Luckily all of them were fine(a few of them didn't even know what happened until people started calling them, heh), though a coworker lost his goddaughter.

 

[JaD]

When it happened I was at work and had a damn near break down since I have a lot of friends who go to school there yet didn't have my phone on me to call and check on them. Luckily all of them were fine(a few of them didn't even know what happened until people started calling them, heh), though a coworker lost his goddaughter.

That's very unfortunate.

 

[ComicChick]

i live in Virginia and it's been a sentimental week, only going to get more during the next few days.

i'll be wearing my Tech shirt tomorrow

it doesn't feel like its been a year

 

[MattBearPig]

This'll sound horrible but I totally forgot when V-Tech happened until I saw this thread. I remember Columbine, but not this for whatever reason.

 

[StrainedEyes]

That was a really fast year.

I'm still shocked at how many people were killed.

 

[Tempest19]

Year did go fast.
Still scared about college shootings, because it's something I can't understand.
I understand what can cause high school shootings, unfortunately.
But, college??? What could any one have against college? Just drop out or something. It's the same thing as walking into a town with a gun. Makes no sense.
RIP to the victims. Hopefully in the future, we'll find a way to minimize school shootings to 0.

 

[Bubonic]

I don't understand how he was able to kill so many with just a couple of handguns.
I guess the people were completely frozen in fear, but you sort of wish there were flight 93 types of people there that would have just rushed him instead of waiting for their turn.

I don't say this to disrespect the dead, just wishful thinking on my part, and hoping that if something like this happened around me I'd be able to shed the terror and do some self-sacrificing.

 

[JaD]

I don't understand how he was able to kill so many with just a couple of handguns.
I guess the people were completely frozen in fear, but you sort of wish there were flight 93 types of people there that would have just rushed him instead of waiting for their turn.

I don't say this to disrespect the dead, just wishful thinking on my part, and hoping that if something like this happened around me I'd be able to shed the terror and do some self-sacrificing.

I read of one person resisting and attempting to fight him off or tackle him, but he was killed, it was the Marine.

 

[Bubonic]

wow, sorry for the ignorance, didn't really pour over the news on this... But was this guy trained in any way?
I remember seeing a vid of him, and he just seemed like a disturbed guy.

It's tragic how a person can justify ruining countless lives, I mean there is over 30 people dead, but how many effected?
All so he could resolve some personal bs.

 

[PyroChamber]

wow, sorry for the ignorance, didn't really pour over the news on this... But was this guy trained in any way?
I remember seeing a vid of him, and he just seemed like a disturbed guy.

It's tragic how a person can justify ruining countless lives, I mean there is over 30 people dead, but how many effected?
All so he could resolve some personal bs.

From what's been said, he was a disturbed kid. A guy that got picked on alot in high school much that even in college, where things usually change for the good, he was still sort of in that mode of being an outcast.

 

[StrainedEyes]

From what's been said, he was a disturbed kid. A guy that got picked on alot in high school much that even in college, where things usually change for the good, he was still sort of in that mode of being an outcast.

Which doesn't explain or excuse anything. The kid was a lunatic who was offered help but rejected it.

 

[JaD]

I'd rather this thread stick with supporting Virginia Tech, rather than turn into a debate on Seung-Hui Cho's motives and psychological problems. But I'm pretty sure it will go off track anyways.

 

[Zero_Vault]

He was probably beaten as a child.

Almost all Koreans are beaten as a child.

Their parents learn this from the army.

 

[Bubonic]

^ maybe thats true, but lets not further dwindle this thread into a racial stereotyping thread...
Like JaD suggested, lets keep it on track. (I realize I originally brought it off track.)

 

[Zero_Vault]

He was a neglected child. Nobody understood him; not even his parents.

They just send him off to America, thinking he'll turn into a bright, young man, when he was turning inward and bottling up his emotion as a child. That is the Korean culture. My friends are Korean. You don't say how you feel, and keep everything to yourself. If you don't, your viewed as a weakling. So if he was to undergo phsychiatric care or evaluation, he brings shame to the entire family.

 

[PyroChamber]

JaD's right, we shouldn't even acknowledge this guy.

 

[Bubonic]

^the sad thing is, the victims are always forgotten, there is a sick side of pop culture that validates the existence of the killers, because in a way they've accomplished something horrible... That's why it's called infamy.
I bet you less then 5% of the posters in this thread could name one of the victims names without googling it.

 

[SuperFerret]

^the sad thing is, the victims are always forgotten, there is a sick side of pop culture that validates the existence of the killers, because in a way they've accomplished something horrible... That's why it's called infamy.
I bet you less then 5% of the posters in this thread could name one of the victims names without googling it.

True. But then again I couldn't tell you the shooter's name either, unless I scrolled up a bit and reread those posts that mention him. All I know is that he's Asian.

 

[Mike_D202]

A year already? Time flies by fast.

 

[GL1]

It still hurts. For me it hurts more than it did last year. I'm not even from VT, but I went up there and it sticks with me pretty hard.

 

[JaD]

It hurt alot for me, alot like Heath Ledger's death. Like I didn't know him, or anyone at VT. But it made me incredibly sad, and I can still feel a bit for them.