As we all know, incident at Virginia Tech last week has taken the lives of 33 victims including the killer himself. This has been the topic of discussion on the news and on every media you all can possibly think of. The day after the incident, NBC got a package from the killer. Apparently, the killer, Cho Seung-Hui has mailed the photos and video to NBC, prior to his second attack in the classrooms. So the officials are investigating the photos and video clippings to see who might have helped him in taking the pictures or if he had any sort of help in carrying out this massacre.
Based on the tracked cell phone calls made by the killer, emails sent by him, the photos and video received from him and his background investigation, officials are trying to draw a rationale as to what caused him to perform this massacre. Many are bringing out the fact that violent video games and movies are the cause for anyone to loose their minds and act crazy. Psychologists say that bad experiences in childhood and stress in-built a child due to situations they face at school, develops within them and finally explodes to cause such painful acts.
This incident has provoked many to ask how he got the guns he used to carry out the massacre. As per the law, you need two forms of identification and should be a resident alien to procure a gun. Of course, they run a background check to see if the records are clean before allowing anyone to buy a gun. When Cho went to buy the gun, his record was clean and he being a resident alien of the U.S. was able to obtain it without any difficulty.
In relation to this, I heard over the radio talk show that Cho should not be given the gun as he is not a Citizen of the U.S., while the law clearly states that anyone who is a resident alien is eligible to buy one. Also, since he is an immigrant from South Korea, immigrant process should be tightened. The process of allowing immigrants into this country should be scrutinized thoroughly before letting anyone into U.S. If Cho, happened to be a Muslim, that it would have been tied to Al-Quida plotting to attack us again. If he had been an African-American, it would be a mindless act that was performed by them. What if he had been a white American? Who are they going to blame it on?
Instead of trying to see ways to blame this act on someone or some movie or violence, try to see the big picture. While the incident should not have occurred in the first place and what Cho did was wrong, what motivated Cho to perform such action - his mental stability, him having to deal with the peer pressure, ridicule at school, his loneliness and such? He was treated while at school and was noted that he should voluntarily go for mental therapy because of his mental instability. This being in the records, Virginia Tech could not hold him off from admissions because that would be discriminating against mentally challenged people. With many laws supporting many people in many possible ways, how do you filter out the problem causing student.
Every student is stressed by their work load at school, peer pressure, achieving success and fame, performing better than their peers, having to face ridicules by their peers and such. I see kids at school taking AP courses while at middle school. When one does it because he or she can do it, there is the pressure for other kids to do the same. This is just an example of how students are pressured in what they do. Don’t come at me for this, for you all know it is the truth. Add parents pressure to this and we get a child who is all stressed out mentally and physically. Then we complain about why kids are so stressed out, why they have so much negative forces in them and why they burst out and perform such actions. Reach out to them and help them as much as possible. Leave them to be what they are – kids.
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