Shooting at Va. Tech

Saddening to look at pictures of those dead kids. You see yourself in them at that age and it just rips your freakin heart out.

One question. If you have a super creepy roommate -- and we've all had one at one stage of the game or another -- why don't you tell someone about it? This kid sent up red flags all over the place. I never lived in the dorms, but I would not have shared space with this dude beyond a semester.

 

Not sure if this has been posted, but it's pretty interesting insight by a former student (now an AOL employee) who was in the shooter's playwriting class. It sounds like many people had significant worries about Cho, but few wanted to voice them:

When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter. I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him. When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor didn't pressure him to give closing comments.

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

 

I don't know why the public needs to be given access this soon to writings that barely deserve the name.

Reading that douchebag's effluvia makes me want to leave the country for a while, at least until it's safe to dip a toe in the waters again.

 

Indeed. I know at least one other poster here who had to have been moved by that gesture.

 

yes, deny the public's rights to the facts.

you must gonna be runnin' for president one day because you sound a lot like him.

 

Let things clear a bit.

 

sorry lee, i don't buy that.

i'm an adult and i can handle the facts. and for god's sake, i'm not saying you're not. i'm not picking a fight, but damn, i'm hearing a lotta libs sounding all right-wingish right now.

 

Something as incomprehensible as this often creates a stippling effect.

I don't see the value in publishing that kid's slop during rigor mortis. Not right now. Sorry, a personal opinion and I understand it cuts across the grain.

 

cool beans lee. you're good peeps, and by god, i'm not picking a fight with you. i'll agree to disagree with you if that's cool with you.

here's hopin' you have a good day, man.

 

Tommy, you do the same.

Maybe someday we'll get to smoke the fraternal bowl in good old Cordova.

 

lee - you had me at bowl.

 

Yeah, well said...