I know this is a blog about surfing, skating, and extreme sports, but this also has to do with humanity so just bear with me about this topic.
I was very shocked when i saw the shootings on the internet and on TV. I didn't know what to think but I researched and researched and RESEARCHED this topic.
The shooter has been identified now as a South Korean, 23-year-old undergraduate majoring in English named Cho Seung-Hui. The story the police want to go by is that he went to West Amber Johnston Hall and shot the girl and male R.A. The reason why is still yet to be determined.
Earlier in the month 2 bomb threats had been made on the school which they presume to be Cho's doing. Their reasoning behind this was to check the security of the campus and to his delight, the cops did not do much about it.
At 7:15 A.M. the first shooting occurred and 7:19 A.M. a 911 call was placed. At this time no warning or e-mail had been sent out to students. At the time President of Virginia Tech, Charles Steger, and his staff were finding a way to let all students know including ones on the way to school.
Around 9:00 A.M. the wave of second shootings began in Norris Hall. Cho ran through the first floor in classrooms shooting and then, to the second floor doing the same. At this point students knew there was gunfire and some began jumping out windows and many tried to escape from the terror, but their doors were chained shut. One student had heard Cho running down the hall and heard him coming closer to his room so he ran to the door barricading the door but Cho managed to squeeze his hand and gun in the room and fired shots hitting a couple students. He then went to the last classroom. He shot and killed some and then turned the gun on himself.
This just came as a shock to me. I could not get my mind off of it. All I did Monday after my classes is watch FOX News.
This can happen anywhere. There are people out there that are like this. They are depressed or angry with society because they are not accepted. I'm not blaming society for this, but they did play a role in Cho's personality. What he did was terrible and should have seeked therapy or something, but what we need to do now is to respect all types of people, even the ones that you think are the weirdest on campus.
I know this is an overused quote, but it does help... "Put yourself in their shoes."
3 comments:
i'm glad one of us blogged about VT. nice job. I couldn't stop watching the news that night either. it's a crazy world...
that it is. i did a music video on it with like photos and one of my friend's testimony that goes to VA Tech was in the building the shootings occurred. i'm just trying to do anything i can for them now.
my prayers go out to those at Va. Tech. They actually go back to resume classes this monday. The student body has also asked the media to leave by monday as well.
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