S. Korean student blamed for U.S. shooting rampage
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 17 (Reuters) - A student from South Korea was the gunman who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech university, police said on Tuesday. They gave no motive for the worst shooting rampage in U.S. history.
You really must stop saying the Virginia Tech massacre is the worst in the nation’s history. It is the worst in RECENT history. The nation’s history is replete with larger massacres outside the context of war in which Mormons massacred a large party of white settlers in a wagon train in the 1800’s, American Indians massacred hundreds of white settlers in Georgia, Americans massacred dozens of American Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre and Wounded Knee (to name just a couple), and Mexicans massacred Texicans in Goliad and the Alamo, and Texicans massacred Mexicans in Matamuros, etc. I expect better from Reuters.
J.D.
Other readers commented on this, as well. We have modified our description to say the worst in modern U.S. history: GBU Editor
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To whom it may concern,
I am the sister of two schitzophrenic siblings. Both my brother and sister are living with the diagnosis of Paranoid Schitzophrenia, so I am more than qualified to point out that the media is completely missing the boat here.
I am so angry that the media is sensationalising this tragedy in Virginia, and NO ONE is addressing the fact that The Baker Act failed those 33 kids and their families. Instead of sensationalizing the events of this tragedy, why
aren’t we pointing out the fact that for 2 years, while all of the symptoms that this tragedy was going to occur, NOTHING could have been done to prevent all of this because of the way the Baker Act is composed?
The Baker Act makes it constitutionally correct to protect the rights of someone that is capable of murder to the point where it leaves the sick individial exposed to all of the elements that are driving them to commit murder, and fails to protect those that are the target of the sick individual. Shouldn’t you be asking our lawmakers and voting public what we can to to modify this law to prevent this situation from happening again?
I remember when my sister still had a small connection to reality before she finally became submerged into her illness. I was unable to get her help and was forced to watch her decline from a healthy 120 pound, fun loving woman to a 90 pound machine of anger and rage. Today, she is currently roaming the streets with her fixation on the fact that she has been wronged by her, “persecutors”. If you believe that my sister doesn’t have the potential to become the next sensational news story, then you are wrong. She is fully capable of committing the same crimes as Cho Seung-Hui, as as a family
member, I know this because i know her better than any judge, Doctor or law, and have done everything in my power to prevent it from happening. According to any judge, Doctor or law, she is free to roam the streets because after 72 hours of an aggitated episode, she had been temporaily calmed. Gee, I guess that beast will never be back, right?
K
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