Comments on: Virginia Tech Notified of Gunman Via Email

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:48 +0000

Everyone is looking for someone to blame. A natural reaction I guess but the person to blame is simply Cho. Whether he was mentally ill or just plain evil, he is to blame. Not the president,who by the way Jay, can not make laws and changes on his own. I encourage you to vote on gun issues every time they come up if you don’t already. It saddens me that people use a tragedy like this to promote their own agendas, i.e. gun control. There will be investigation after investigation about who did what and whether or not it was right but hindsight is always 20/20. We all want answers. Did mental illness get overlooked in this guy? You can’t commit someone or force them into therapy because they don’t talk and write menacingly evil poetry. I don’t think anyone did anything wrong.
They did what they could within the constraints of the law. Are the laws too lenient? Do they allow too much personal freedom? Do they allow too much individual privacy? Should a college campus be fenced in like a fortress? Should students not be allowed to come and go as they please? Should visitors be refused entry until each and every one is personally searched and screened? Who knows. But while we want to assign blame, we must remember that Cho and only Cho pulled the trigger. The thing to do now is remember the families and victims. Focus on healing and learning from the incident. And pray, pray, pray.

By: Vigil Lante

Vigil Lante — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:57:22 +0000

Again; another worthless piece of crap takes many worthwhile lives: When are we ever going to learn to PAY CLOSE and RAPT paranoiac attention to such vivid warning signs as this shithead was giving off. He should have been institutionalized (or better yet boiled alive in oil) a LONG time ago. SOMEone at some time should have pursued getting this guy OUT of society or OFF the planet. Now instead nearly 50 valuable and decent people were pointlessly killed by a decrepit and dispicable piece of scat who should have been taken out long ago one way or another. When will we ever learn to deal with such losers, misfits, and sociopaths appropriately and with the extreme concern they warrant? Prayers will not solve and have not ever solved a thing only INTENSE vigilance and willingness to ACT will.

By: Faith

Faith — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:07:00 +0000

A special condolence from Malaysia.. Vtech will be in our prayers..

By: jay

jay — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:51:16 +0000

first of all i would like to say, if the U.S would just stop selling guns to people other than the police or our armed forces then we wouldn’t have this problem. our president needs to recognize what is taking place, not just feel bad for the victims but stop this shit before it happens again. as AMERICANS we need to take care of each other, meaning that when our country or our people are at war then we need to react with even more of a force that will make a point not just shake them up a lil bit. just like the war, we are staying in iraq and not doing nothing but risking and killing our men & women. cmon, remeber pearl harbor? 1 bomb is all it took. we need to straighten up and be a strong country. it’s not about being equal but protecting whats ours. by god we need to do that in every aspect of the word.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:52:06 +0000

I am struck by the need to teach unarmed people how to defend themselves personally against violent intruders, when they have no one around them to defend them and when the violence is unexpected. This would empower those victims and give them security in the future.

I am struck by the apparently lack of response to the intruder with effective disarming techniques.