Shooting at Va. Tech

I found this on the Marching Virginian's website. (http://www.music.vt.edu/performance/ensembles/mv/leadership.shtml)
Learning mundane details of the victims makes tragedies like this all the more heartbreaking. (Thinking of the NY Times obits following 9/11). :'(

 

It already has not ended well for 32 families. And that matters a lot more than political agendas.

 

From the second blog:

 

Cryptic. Notice this strange passage: "... give my opinion on how the situation could have turned out better if other students were allowed to be armed." Like MORE guns are the answer.

Could be that a friend logged onto his computer and posted that blog entry to throw people off the scent. Or, he could be the next Richard Jewell.

 

You mean the "friend of a friend of a friend" grapevine was wrong? Unpossible!

Why were people who thought he was the shooter threatening him, since the shooter is dead?

 

You mean 33 families. The shooter had a family too.

 

Pardon me if the sympathy factor is nill for them.

 

here we go ...

 

Their (presumably) son is dead. They'll live the rest of their lives wondering what they did wrong to raise a kid who pulled off the worst mass murder in American history. I doubt they knowingly and willfully raised him to grow up to be a mass murderer. They deserve plenty of sympathy.

 

Sorry, write.
Yeah, they lost a son, brother, friend, etc, too, but I'm not gonna say any prayers for that.

 

Just like the Kelbold and Harris family probably do every day.
It's an unfair burden for them, they did nothing wrong that made their kids do this, same as this one.

 

Sorry markvid, but we've had this argument before and it is OK for us to have sympathy for the shooter's family. It's not like they were involved or are happy that their kid decided to go on a shooting spree.