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Gaffer Tape
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Virginia Tech shooting
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Date created
19-Apr-2007, 2:22 PM
This pisses me off. It says that a college student in Colorado, I believe, was arrested for saying things in class sympathetic to Cho's massacre. While I can't imagine it being a very popular view, last I checked, it was hardly a crime to hold a contrary viewpoint. So, of course, everybody's going to be paranoid for awhile and crack down on anybody who could possibly be conceived as a potential threat.

I also read another article lately that, not surprisingly, leans in the direction of Cho being a social misfit and having been bullied for years. Like I said, I don't find it surprising and have sort of been waiting for something like this to be said, because that's usually the motivation for school shootings. It said that in middle school he was pushed around a lot. And there was a particular instance in high school where a classmate said he was forced to read in front of the class and was immediately made fun of for his accent and told to "Go back to China." Don't misunderstand me at all. I'm not defending his decision to murder nearly three dozen people. Nothing justifies that. But it really pisses me off how people, especially kids, treat one another. If you're going to find something to target, don't have it be gun control or *pff* video games, neither of which seemingly have any real bearing on this situation at all. Bring up your kids to be nice to be nice to each other and not to be little yuppie assholes who bully and victimize everybody who's different. Whether or not that would have had any effect on Cho going crazy and murdering his classmates, you can't argue that it wouldn't do any good for society in general.