Hmm, I fall somewhere inbetween on this topic. On one hand I agree with ferris, we need to find ways to prevent this in the future. But then again, the media over analyses the hell out of this crap, even when the reasons are obvious they are still there, saying crap like "So he played Doom right? He owned GTA didn't he? His parents were over bearing religious fanatic right? Just shut the hell up already. My goodness, right after Virginia Tech. the only thing they did was analyse and speculate. Do we really learn all that much from seeing the guys face on every news network for the following week? I mean, in Cho's case it was pretty simple, don't sell freakin fire arms to someone who is mentally unstable, or as most people in the media would say, don't sell firearms period. On the other hand I agree with Rob though, one thing these guys want is attention. Someone sees what attention Cho gets, and they decide they want a bit of that, so they do the same, then someone sees that it worked for all the other guys, so he does the same. If the media didn't flash the guys face every ten seconds, and no more attention is paid to them, then they might be less likely to carry through seeing the payment not being worth it. But then again, how can you really let something like this go? How could you really do justice to those who were victims by barely making a mention of such an event. And above all, how could you possibly expect the media not to jump all over something like this like flies on a fresh turd.