cheesewheel wrote:Sadly, there is nothing you can do about people like this. They are old enough to make decisions on their own. They are not under the legal care of anybody anymore. He would have had to agree to any counseling. Unless he had committed an act previously which deemed him a threat to himself or society.
But as for the shooting. You can not blame it on the shooter 100%.
Coming from a person who has had problems in his life. Mental illnesses affect you in ways most people will not ever understand. You don't really have control over what you are doing. It feels right at the time and you think it is right. It affects you severly, your thoughts and morals are warped during times like this. You can not blame one man saying he should rot in heck if he indeed did have a mental illness. No one will really understand what he was going through now. All we can do is pray this type of thing will not happen again.
Also, my condolences go out to everyone at Virginia Tech and all of their families. It truly is a devastating time.
there are thousands upon thousands of people (probably in north dakota alone, much less in the rest of the country) that deal with depression, suicide, anger, etc. every day without killing people. everything this guy 'stood' for, everything this guy 'was forced into' is b.s.
honestly, i don't think that people who have been wronged by someone else want to kill them with a gun. a gun is way too easy, way too impersonal, there is not a lot of release of the anger because essentially the anger doesn't play itself out...you just move your finger a little bit.
guns are weak. his message of 'i'm the victim in all of this' falls on my deaf ears. besides, if he was really angry, he wouldn't haven't killed himself, he would have chosen suicide by cop and gone out in a hail of bullets. he's a weak little person and that makes what he did all the more disgusting for me. so many people died at the hands of this slug and he doesn't deserve to have that kind of power over anyone...because what...he can pull a trigger?
i have complete sympathy for the families of those that died, those at the school that day, the family of the shooter, the list goes on and on. it's a horrible ordeal. but sympathy for the shooter...he's a child throwing a tantrum. i don't feel sympathy for children throwing tantrums.