Cho Seung-Hui pulled back on his legally purchased clock 9 pistol and ended the lives of 33 people including himself.
Before the bodies can even be identified we’re all screaming “where do we point our finger?”
He’s South Korean right? Oh no, this wont be good for any immigrant living in America. The latest talk is that he wrote two sick and twisted plays for his class project. Certainly this is the tailings of a suspected “school shooter.” I am sure the usual source of suspects will come into play. Horrific video game violence, TV, Marilyn Manson …. the list will continue.
So back to the fingers; Cho left a note in his dorm in which he railed against “rich kids,” “debauchery” and “deceitful impostors” on the Virginia Tech campus.
Let’s look at the character of Cho. He was a small, skinny, quiet, immigrant looking person so I think I can be safe to assume he was a loner (as the reports tell us). In fact, it is said that he never talked to anyone. He was the “question mark” kid.
So you have a middle class loner attending a school, living in a world that urges you to be better, more than you are and to be someone else. Society is pointing fingers looking for a radical group to blame but I must think, isn’t our societies perception on life that radical group?
Cho committed a horrific crime and cowardly took his life. There is never any room for people to take others lives. Never. Yet, the media is jumping all over this with guns blazing wanting to know who is the blame for the outrage. Thank goodness Cho wasn’t an illegal alien, Iraqi or Iranian.
Out of all the millions of people living in America, a few lose hope, lose passion and get twisted in the midst. When these people act out its outcome usually isn’t good and we need something to blame to make the situation make sense. How can someone ever really make sense of it? I don’t think we will ever truly know what made him tick.
Maybe the simple truth is he was a depressed lonely person who had a chip on his shoulder. Maybe the demons that possessed him to do what he did and act out are the same demons that possess us all on a daily basis.
Hate, greed, jealousy, lust, anger, loneliness. How do you point fingers at those things?