The Postmodern Chronicles Of Hayley

This time, the victims were the students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 23-year-old South Korean native Cho Seung-Hui shot 62 people, killed 33 (including himself) and injured 29 - making it the deadliest shooting massacre in modern US history.

Again, like Red Lake and Columbine massacres, the gunman was an angry student described as a “psychopath” (by Fox News yesterday) and a “loner”. This man was dangerous and it wasn’t his first offense either. Back in 2005, two girls had alerted Virginia Tech authorities about Cho stalking them. Determined to help this troubled young man, they arranged for him to seek psychiatric treatment. The doctor examining him concluded that he presented “an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness.” A day later he was released.

No offense to this doctor that examined Cho, but the “mental illness” presented more of a danger to others than it did to Cho himself. Schools quite often go overboard with the whole ‘helping our students’ kind of thing. Many schools refuse to expell students deemed as ‘dangerous’ because they are trying so hard to earn brownie points. Cho is one of these people that should have been expelled. If someone is described as being dangerous to themselves, then that makes them quite capable of being dangerous to others. I mean, come on! He was accused of stalking two girls in a short period of one month, and the second girl requested that he “have no further contact with her”. The court ruled that Cho was “an imminent danger to self or others”. So… if a COURT ruled that he was dangerous to others, WHY DID THEY LET HIM BACK AT SCHOOL?!
Did they seriously believe that a one day appearance at a psychiatric hospital would have turned his “mental illness” around immediately?

14 months later Cho is merrily skipping to the pawn shop to pick up a .22 caliber Walther P22 handgun that he ordered a week earlier… via the internet! WTF? If one wasn’t enough, Cho spent his next month’s pocket money on a $10 packet of 50 9-mm bullets to go with his brand new 9mm Glock 19 handgun. I’m not gonna get into all this shit about America’s gun laws, because we’re all thinking the same thing. Just a common everyday occurance… 23 year old with a diagnosed mental illness buying handguns over the internet…

Then Mister Seung-Hui decided to take his new toys to school… where he played a mass game of ‘Cowboys & Indians’ with 62 people at his Virginia Tech University, lasting 2 hours. He killed 32 people, injured 29 and committed suicide (which he’d threatened to do via an instant message two years earlier).

Schools - if your campus contains a child deemed as “dangerous” by both a court and medical experts, EXPELL THEM. It is not that hard. Or perhaps offering them a little more than one day’s worth of psychiatric treatment. Pfft!

I’m going to post a list of the innocent victims of the Virginia Tech massacres (minus the gunman) to pay them tribute:

(from wikipedia.org)
FIRST SHOOTING: West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory

1. Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, a freshman from Woodville in Rappahannock County, Virginia, in Animal and Poultry Sciences. The first victim was initially described as Cho’s girlfriend; however, it has been suggested by Hilscher’s roommate that there was no mutual relationship between the two. The superintendent of the Virginia State police, Col. W. Steven Flaherty, said there was “no known relationship” between Cho and any of the victims. Hilscher’s boyfriend, Karl Thornhill, was the initial suspect in the case. This may have contributed to early speculation that Cho was her boyfriend by the media.
2. Ryan Christopher “Stack” Clark, 22, a senior from Martinez in Columbia County, Georgia, United States. A resident advisor at the West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory, Clark was killed in the dormitory as he rushed over to investigate the initial shooting of Emily J. Hilscher who lived on the same floor as Ryan when he came upon the shooter.

SECOND SHOOTING: Norris Hall Engineering Building

STUDENTS:

1. Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, a sophomore from Saugus, Massachusetts, in University Studies.
2. Brian Bluhm, 25, a graduate student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in Civil Engineering.
3. Austin Cloyd, 18, a freshman from Blacksburg, Virginia, in International Studies and French.
4. Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, 24, a graduate student from Chester, Virginia, in Environmental Engineering.
5. Caitlin Hammaren, 19, a sophomore from Westtown, New York, in International Studies and French.
6. Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, a graduate student from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in Civil Engineering .
7. Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18, a freshman from Richmond, Virginia.
8. Matthew Joseph La Porte, 20, a sophomore from Dumont, New Jersey, in University Studies.
9. Jarrett Lane, 22, a senior from Narrows, Virginia, in Civil Engineering.
10. Henry J. Lee (birth name Henh Ly), a sophomore and resident of Roanoke, Virginia, in Computer Engineering.
11. Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, 34, a postgraduate student from Medan, Indonesia, in Civil Engineering.
12. Lauren Ashley McCain, 20, of Hampton, Virginia, in International Studies.
13. Daniel Patrick O’Neil, 23, a graduate student from Lincoln, Rhode Island, in Environmental Engineering. O’Neil operated a website called Residenthippy.com.
14. Juan Ramón Ortiz, 26, a graduate student from Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in Civil Engineering.
15. Minal Hiralal Panchal, 26, a graduate student from Mumbai, India, in Architecture.
16. Daniel Pérez Cueva, 21, a student from Lima, Peru, in International Relations.
17. Erin Peterson, 18, a freshman from Centreville in uninc. Fairfax County, Virginia.
18. Michael Steven Pohle, Jr., 23, a senior from Raritan Township, New Jersey, in Biological Sciences.
19. Julia Pryde, 23, a graduate student from Middletown, New Jersey, in Biological Sciences.
20. Mary Karen Read, 19, a freshman from Annandale, uninc. Fairfax County, Virginia.
21. Reema Joseph Samaha, 18, a freshman from Centreville, uninc. Fairfax County, Virginia.
22. Waleed Mohamed Shaalan, 32, a postgraduate student from Zagazig, Egypt, in Civil Engineering. Killed while trying to save another student.
23. Leslie Geraldine Sherman, 20, a sophomore from Springfield, uninc. Fairfax County, Virginia, in History and International Studies.
24. Maxine Shelly Turner, 22, a senior from Vienna, Virginia, in Chemical Engineering.
25. Nicole Regina White, 20, a junior from Carrollton, uninc. Isle of Wight County, Virginia, in International Studies and German.

FACULTY:

1. Christopher James Bishop (Jamie), 35, Instructor, Foreign Languages and Literatures.
2. Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Instructor, Foreign Languages. A French instructor from Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
3. Kevin Granata, 45, Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics.
4. Liviu Librescu, 76, Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics, and Holocaust survivor. Killed while holding off the shooter so his students could escape out the window.
5. G. V. Loganathan, 50, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering from Tamil Nadu, India.

Yep, that’s right. Liviu Librescu was a 76 year old HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, surviving in and event where approximately 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps. And Professor Librescu’s long life of achievement was cut short by an angry, psychopathic disrespectful student in a place where Librescu was giving others his greatest gift of all - his knowledge. Not only that, but Librescu was killed when he physically held back Cho Seung-Hui so his 11 students could escape out the window. Professor Liviu Librescu saved the lives of 11 people. He has the true characteristics that make him a hero.