Monday, May 07, 2007

Editorial Commentary on Virginia Tech

It was a massacre held out by one of the students. 32 people died by gun shot. Cho Seung-hui was 23, South Korean and very anti social.
In his poetry class he wrote very disturbing tales about murdering, killing and torturing. The class at the beginning of term had 70 students, but many got scared by Cho and stopped attending the class. The teacher too got worried and so she decided to get Cho removed from all her lessons.
Cho's roommate said that he would never speak, and he always liked to wear a hat and dark sunglasses. His roommate also said that if you greeted him he would never respond, as if you weren't there. On the morning of the 'attacks' Cho shot 2 people, in their school dormitory. It was roughly at 7 o'clock, but at 8:30 school carried on as normal. Questions are being asked as to why lessons weren't suspended, especially when there were police all around campus. When school started at the normal time, Cho decided to take action again. We know it was a premeditated attack because after his shooting in the dormitory Cho took photo's of himself holding two guns (the ones he shot his 32 victims with). He pointed them at the camera so you could see down the barrel, and he also had a knife which in the picture he held at his throat. Cho also recorded a video. He said things like its your fault this happened, you spilled the blood and now it won't wash off your hands etc...These video's and pictures got personally sent to the NBC by Cho. After he done this he went off on his killing spree. But these weren't the only signs of violence, the school had been getting bomb threats for some time, and the police do not think that they were connected to Cho.