Response to VT Tragedy gun control thread
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:46 am
I cant post in the actual thread for some reason. It keeps placing my words in alphabetical order and talking about a debug errorso Im just going to do this. Ive done a lot of reading on the VT killer and spent about thirty minutes of my time typing this damn thing, so Im not about to just let it go unposted...
As much as someone would like to use games, music, movies as a motive they dont always apply. Especially in this mans case.
You want to know why this kid did this?
He was a nut. Thats all there is too it. This case is off the wall. This man is not only the most prolific school shooter, he will be remembered as one of the most disturbed as well...
The whole year his roomates knew him, he rarely spoke to them. They never seen him with friends or visitors. When he did open up to his roomate, it was always quite bizzarre. He told him about an imaginary girlfriend on one occasion, on another he would constantly call the roomate pretending to be his imaginary brother named "Question Mark".
When he was caught playing such a foolish game, he refused to admit calling the roomate. He was sitting in a dark dorm lounge all alone.
He would stalk campus women and the Univrsity police were always recieving complaints from them (none pressed charges however) and classmates remember him as extremely withrdrawn. The only conversations this man had with people for a whole year of his life were short, quick one line answers. He would speak when spoken too in other words, as if human interaction was an annoyance. A teacher tutored him for a whole semester and he never opened up to her either, never revealed intimated details of his life which is very strange. It was just himself and a teacher in a room alone for an ENTIRE semester.
Try sitting in a room every day with someone all alone for months. Eventually you'd start talking about your family, your interests, your friends, etc. Eventually you would get personal. He never got personal with anyone. Dont you find that disturbing? I am a shy withdrawn person. I couldnt live like this for a whole year of my life. This man took it to extremes..
As far as music is concerned, he listened to Led Zeplin and collective Soul. Hardly something that would motivate someone to vent their rage.
As for games? He didnt play them. His only recreational activity was riding his bicicle a few hours each night, every now an then. Then he would come into the dorm and sleep every night with a bright florecent light bulb inches from his head on the top bunk, he never complained once about the light, it didnt bother him.
The answer we are all looking for? This kid was crazy. He pushed everyone away because he knew he was crazy. He knew that they would know so he kept them all away.
After a whole year of this he was feeling an ungoldly sence of indifference to this world. It probably didnt mean two **Filtered** to him to kill everyone then himself. He woke up and said, "Is it really going to matter if I go nuts today? What is my life worth anyway?"
This was probably a spur of the moment thing for him and he was so isolated and bizzarre in his head that he couldnt tell the difference between his own life and death.. So why did someone elses mean anything to him either?
As much as someone would like to use games, music, movies as a motive they dont always apply. Especially in this mans case.
You want to know why this kid did this?
He was a nut. Thats all there is too it. This case is off the wall. This man is not only the most prolific school shooter, he will be remembered as one of the most disturbed as well...
The whole year his roomates knew him, he rarely spoke to them. They never seen him with friends or visitors. When he did open up to his roomate, it was always quite bizzarre. He told him about an imaginary girlfriend on one occasion, on another he would constantly call the roomate pretending to be his imaginary brother named "Question Mark".
When he was caught playing such a foolish game, he refused to admit calling the roomate. He was sitting in a dark dorm lounge all alone.
He would stalk campus women and the Univrsity police were always recieving complaints from them (none pressed charges however) and classmates remember him as extremely withrdrawn. The only conversations this man had with people for a whole year of his life were short, quick one line answers. He would speak when spoken too in other words, as if human interaction was an annoyance. A teacher tutored him for a whole semester and he never opened up to her either, never revealed intimated details of his life which is very strange. It was just himself and a teacher in a room alone for an ENTIRE semester.
Try sitting in a room every day with someone all alone for months. Eventually you'd start talking about your family, your interests, your friends, etc. Eventually you would get personal. He never got personal with anyone. Dont you find that disturbing? I am a shy withdrawn person. I couldnt live like this for a whole year of my life. This man took it to extremes..
As far as music is concerned, he listened to Led Zeplin and collective Soul. Hardly something that would motivate someone to vent their rage.
As for games? He didnt play them. His only recreational activity was riding his bicicle a few hours each night, every now an then. Then he would come into the dorm and sleep every night with a bright florecent light bulb inches from his head on the top bunk, he never complained once about the light, it didnt bother him.
The answer we are all looking for? This kid was crazy. He pushed everyone away because he knew he was crazy. He knew that they would know so he kept them all away.
After a whole year of this he was feeling an ungoldly sence of indifference to this world. It probably didnt mean two **Filtered** to him to kill everyone then himself. He woke up and said, "Is it really going to matter if I go nuts today? What is my life worth anyway?"
This was probably a spur of the moment thing for him and he was so isolated and bizzarre in his head that he couldnt tell the difference between his own life and death.. So why did someone elses mean anything to him either?