Va Tech Shooting – Three Characteristics Shared By School Shooters
NBC News anchor, Brian Williams reported on the NBC evening news, the whereabouts of shooter Cho Seung -Hui, during the time between his two shootings sprees, and suicide, at Va. Tech Polytechnic Institute and University, on Monday, April 16, 2007. Apparently, Mr. Sueng Hui was sending NBC a videotaped message, in which he expresses his madden at unspecified wrongs inflicted upon him.
NBC received the package from the Va. Tech shooter, containing the videotaped message in the Tuesday afternoon mail, but did not inaugurate it until Weds morning. The videotape confirms what investigators suspected, that Cho Seung Hui shared the personality traits of other school shooters. In Cho’s videotape, he mentions Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold, the teenagers who killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High in Littleton, Colo., four years ago. In what he refers to as his “Manifesto,” he expresses a need to collect even with immoral rich kids. The videotape is the disturbing incoherent babble of a severely troubled individual.
An emotionally haunted man, possessing the three characteristics shared by shooters of school shootings enters a dorm room, and kills two students in wintry blood. Then, two hours later, he ventures across campus to a classroom, (after bolting the door to support serve out), and executes the rest of his deadly understanding. This is an individual marred by a expansive deal of harm, with the opportunity to score firearms. It is the convergence of the valuable elements, needed to manifest such a murderous rampage. This is similar to a perfect storm, in that you need the convergence of the perfect distinguished elements to compose the anxiety.
It seems you need the collection of determined character traits, to beget up a personality profile, righteous of slay on such a mass scale. Cho Seung Hui possessed the following characteristics, shared by school shooters, which are- these individuals opinion their shooting sprees; are plan to be a threat before they comment any crime; and their communities raise questions about their behavior before a crime is committed.
According to an article written by MSNBC, Cho Seung Hui exhibited these characteristics in that he “didn’t snap,” but instead acquired the weapons he former in the shootings, weeks earlier. The students on campus considered him a threat, and raised questions about his behavior.
Even though Cho Seung-Hui exhibited all three of these characteristics, teachers, students, and law enforcement officers had their hands tied. Cho ignored the advice of a teacher, slipped through a mental health facility, conned campus police, and bought two firearms.
Cho Seung Hui’s community at Va. Tech apparently had immense warning signs suggesting Cho was a threat to himself, and others. On November 22, 2005, a female student reported to campus police that Cho had been “annoying her” and requested police notify him to close, and leave her alone. Police referred Cho to the campus disciplinary system, but evidently, Cho was not listening, and because he made no apparent threats, what could authorities do?
Evidently, the first complaint from a female student, was not the last, the second student claimed Cho Seung sent her instant messages; however he made no apparent say threat, making it difficult for police to charge him with any affirm offense. Campus police have also said, that the same day of the second complaint, someone told campus police they concept Cho was suicidal. Police will not say who made these remarks, however, investigators have discovered that two of Chos roommates expressed the same wretchedness to dorm room advisors. After Campus police spoke to Cho, he went to the mental health care facility “fresh River Community Service” off campus. Cho then agreed to a voluntary detention at “St. Alban’s” mental health center approach Radford Va.. Police are trying to come by a search warrant for Chops medical records at the facility, but again are having effort due to privacy laws.
However, Chos roommates stated he was gone for two nights. Officials hold Cho’s quit must have been voluntary since he was able to take the two guns ragged in the shootings. The university ‘s chairwoman of the English department, (Cho Seung-Hui was a creative writing student) stated she was not aware of Cho’s personality, however, she spoke to Lucinda Roy, who had him in one of her creative writing classes, Roy described him as shy.
Roy told the Associated Press that “Sometimes in creative writing people bid things, and you never know if it’s creative, or if they’re describing or imagining things, or objective how loyal it might be. But we are all alert to things like this.”
Lucinda Roy also referred Cho to counseling and even offered to bring him, however she never found out what happened after he refused her wait on. grievous refused to release any of Cho’s writings, citing privacy laws, however you can bet investigators are looking into it. NBC news ‘Pete Williams said police found a ticket in Chos dorm room, where Cho listed “random grievances” that were evidently troubling him. The university’s associate vice president for community relations, said, they are” having anguish finding out mighty about Cho due to the fact, that he was a loner., and kept to himself.” Few students at Harper Hall knew Cho Seung-Hui.
These are examples of the warning signs associated with Cho Sueng Hui, which he apparently shared with other school shooters, and yet we have 33 people insensible, including Cho. I hope that we will learn from this incident, and institute changes in societies attitude toward guns, university and other public institutions mental health guidelines, and the warning signs leading up to this kind of tragedy. We need to arm teachers, parents, students, and the public on what personality defects to leer for in frightened students. Since the first portray of this shooting, we have heard urging from other nations on the need for reforming Americas gun control laws, and self -defensive attitude. By not implementing some changes in American policy and culture, we will come by more than the correct to absorb arms. We will also fetch the moral to occupy unspeakable hurt and sorrow, for the consequences that follow the lack of obedient gun control legislation.
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