Va. Gunman's Family Feels Hopeless, Lost »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsThe family of Va. Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho told AP on Friday that they feel "hopeless, helpless and lost," and "never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence." "Our family is so very sorry for my brother's unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for all of us," the family said.
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1robert0271 year, 5 months ago
in a society as warped as this one is becoming, they should have required classes in the meaning of morals. bulling and teasing can devastate ones life in many differnt ways. No one can possibly understand this unless its happening to them day after day. I'm not using this as an excuse for why this happened but kids are cruel nowdays, they know no difference between right and wrong . they think nothing of ruining someones life by constant teasing...
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ades1 year, 5 months ago
it's very true. even at 25 i feel the damage to my self esteem from 15 years ago... and i didn't even have it that bad. mix in a poor family life, depression, poverty, etc. and it can destroy someone. there are dozens of individuals who carry the blame for this tragedy.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
It's good that the VT community is reaching out to Cho's family, much the same way that the Amish reached out to the family of the man who murdered five of their children last fall.
Cho was guilty of murder, but his family is not. Anyone contemplating revenge killings against them is as sick as Cho was.
But I'm hoping that Cho family's fear of reprisals is unfounded. After all, nobody went after the family of Timothy McVeigh.
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SarrahA1 year, 5 months ago
I agree with everything you said. The pain and confusion that Cho's family must be going through is incalculable. I think it's great that the VT community is going out of their way to make sure that they don't feel ostracized.
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 5 months ago
Stephen Johnson:
I agree with most of what you said. However please remember two differences about Timothy McVeigh and Cho's family. Timothy was not a minority and was born here.
I am encouraged by the VT community reaching out to Cho's family.
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Lavb54741 year, 5 months ago
I have to post this it was just a headline on CNN: " Bush order inquiry into violence and the mentally ill" What an oxymoron!!!!! But back to the subject at hand. I think it is wonderfully compassionate to include Cho's family. Barring any outcome that any severe abuse by his family caused him to snap, I think his family are just as much a victim of him as anyone else. Remember, hold individuals accountable not the families. Easier said than done. But again unless there is some evidence brought forth that his family did anything to outright cause or indirectly cause or entice, they deserve the thoughts and prayers given to the victims and their families.
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nanacat1 year, 5 months ago
Filled with sadness for the loss of brilliant lives, for the way this will impact the survivors who were there and the family of the gunman. Very sad for his family. I absorb much info as possible about him in an effort to understand. It's part of my grieving for all involved. I am thankful the news tells the story. It helps me cope and know it could have happened anywhere. Right now his family are his victims too. They will share the pain and more with the families that lost their loved ones too.
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Licentious1 year, 5 months ago
"But I'm hoping that Cho family's fear of reprisals is unfounded. After all, nobody went after the family of Timothy McVeigh."
Timothy McVeigh was white, which makes a huge difference. I don't know where you live, but I live in Centreville which might ring a bell if you've been paying attention to the news, and roughly a third of my graduating class goes to VTECH. In the past three days, my korean friend was mugged, my friend's bakery had all of its windows smashed and the building was vandalized, and every day I hear someone say "asians should die". Nothing I have said is a lie, or an exaggeration, this is the situation that people have been put in simply because they are asian, imagine how the FAMILY of the boy must feel. The "righteous" citizens of the United States tend to pay more attention to those who don't exactly blend into the overhwlemingly white crowd.
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OnlyTheTruth1 year, 5 months ago
And don't forget those who tried to find a way to pin this on Islam in order to foster such hatred against Muslims. In fact, I recall an ultra-right-wing blog (AtlasShrugs) being posted on THIS blog.
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trnscndr1 year, 5 months ago
How long will it take for this question to go away? Should it ever? Or should we have indelible reminder of the message of 33 innocents and a driven killer with a message? Many will blame his parents without even knowing them. Many will feel compassion. Most will forget this in a short while and simply slough it off as "just another nutcase". Are we finished with this one? Should we be?
http://dulyconsider.blogspot.com/2007/04/questi...
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ghengisghan1 year, 5 months ago
God bless em, Theyre going through the same hell everyone else is...not their fault.
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xtaylor0022x1 year, 5 months ago
I feel terrible for Cho's family. I can only imagine how much pain they are in right now. I'm sure they have seen his face posted all over the internet, television, and the newspapers. They are being handed a constant reminder of what their son/brother did. Not only do they have to think about the ones that Cho killed, they have to think about his death. I feel the most sorrow for that family, they will take the heat for Cho's actions no matter what.
Not to pull away from the other victims families, I feel terrible for them also. It's like they paid the price for something they didn't do. God bless all families involved in this tragedy.
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LUCKYBEAR10141 year, 5 months ago
It is clear no one in their right mind could have done this... His family is not at fault that he carried out this act. It makes me wonder if he was always quiet and reservered? Or if it came about over time... Could anyone see his "metal problems" he was dealing with? Did anyone know... I've had "dark" thoughts in times of despair... But what is the breaking point that takes a person that far... "Depression" "metal Illness" "morals" are just part of an even deeper issue with people who do these senseless things... They are the people that need to be reached out to BEFORE it gets to the breaking point... But it is no one elses problem until they break... So let this teach us to open oue eyes and reach out to help each other to love ourselves.
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OnlyTheTruth1 year, 5 months ago
I read today that he had been totally withdrawn for at least a decade. I have to wonder about his family - why didn't THEY get him some help; especially in light of the other attemot to commit him.
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xtaylor0022x1 year, 5 months ago
I have some other things to add--
I just wanted to keep my last comment focused on the families...
But, I have been so caught up in thinking about how this child was teased everyday of his life in middle school....that I completely ignored the fact that the campus didn't even cancel classes after the first shooting?! Lol, yes I know I sound like a complete moron right now...but I didn't even realize that.
My mother works at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and a couple weeks ago, a man comitted suicide on campus. They thought that he was shot because of all the blood around his body, but he actually jumped from the 7th floor and landed on the 3rd. The campus was immediately on lockdown, classes were canceled...faculty was sent home, the whole 9 yards just because they DID not know if the shooter was still on campus. Like I said, turns out he wasn't shot.
I just don't understand...there could have only been two fatalities, opposed to 32!
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navyrunt931 year, 5 months ago
They thought they had the shooter when they were talking to the 1st victime's boyfriend. They thought he did it.
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xtaylor0022x1 year, 5 months ago
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I just think that it could of been avoided..maybe I'm wrong.
I also wonder what the people think of this that DID tease Cho back in middle school when they watch the news, and look at the papers and the internet. I wonder if they think to themselves "these innocent lives were taken, for something that I did"
lol I'm doing a lot of wondering here...because I've got another thing
I wonder when Cho came up with the idea to do this? I mean, it's obvious that he had it planned because he purchased the guns a few months back, and with all of the pictures & videos...but I wonder when it came into his head as an option?
OKAY, im done now lol
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
Compassion for the family NOT cho!>>>>>
I have compassion for Cho. The pain he was living must have been unbearable. Psychosis isn't a walk in the park. It hurts. And you need to understand that his illness was beyond his control. Not for his sake, but for yours.
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Rinty1 year, 5 months ago
Obviously you don't have the same qualities or education of a VT student.
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pacificmist1 year, 5 months ago
Ok, for one I really hate the word "retard" and people who use that word to describe the mental capacity of others should check themselvs. Play ground bullies use that word all the time and at some point some kids gets enough of it and bits back. Blame what you want, video games, the music what ever but jusst because this guy had a mental illness does not mean he had a deminished IQ
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suzeqt651 year, 5 months ago
AS A VT ALUM, I MUST COMMENT.......I lived in West AJ my freshman year. My husband earned all his degress in engineering so therefore spent most of his time in Norris Hall. SO for all of you who do not agree that lockdown should've occured immediately listen up......Cho was a student. One of the largest on campus dining halls is neart West AJ. If Cho had heard of a lock down, he would've gone into that dining hall ARMED and the outcome would've been HUNDREDS killed. He was on a mission and it just would've happened at the next "open" location. Why don't we all (inclduing the media!!!) stop the "would've" "could've" "should've" and focus on the healing process???
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suzeqt651 year, 5 months ago
Me, again.......over in character length...cont'd......
I'm a Yoga instructor and have been lighting candles all week in classes. Tuesday I was crying & shaking so badly that a friend had to light my three candles -- courage, love and peace. I lit them for the victims, the families, alum, etc. but I also lit them for Cho and especially for his parents. My classes were amazed that I did that. THAT'S WHAT HOKIES ARE ALL ABOUT!!!
I am hurt to the core; my "happy place has been shattered" -- temporarily, but still shattered.
But I didn't just graduate from Virginia Tech: I EXPERIENCED IT!!!
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aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
I wish the compassion shown by the VT students would carry over to some of the posters here who are always professing to have "Christian Compassion" while spewing venom & hate
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pacificmist1 year, 5 months ago
None of know what went on in the family or the private life of Cho. All any of us can do is guess. I will reserve my compassion until a later date. For now all I have to go on is what the media tells us and it seems that not only did the school, students, teachers, and his family know he was mentally ill but Dr's knew it too. I want to have compassion but I want it to be real not just because everyone else has compassion. . There are three sides to every story, their side, my side and the truth. The truth of what pushed this kid to the point of doing what he did may never be known. None of us can sit here and say with 100% surity that he did not ask for help or tell someone he was about to do this. We can't be 100% sure he had a great family life. With everything I've read so far almost everyone that knew him knew he had serious problems. Compassion should have come before the killings not after.
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jonmaverick1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, I think we should feel bad for the family, and forget that their ties to money and power were probably the only thing that kept this scumbag walking free, and in Virginia Tech.
Forget...forget...
Huh? What! Wait a minute!! Everybody can have emotional problems. Everybody has stress. Almost everybody gets picked on when they are young. It's part of growing up. If this little turd of a human being wanted to skip that part of life, he should have just killed himself and left the rest of those kids out of it. What breaks my heart is that now, when such occurances are commonplace, and believe me they are (this happened ten minutes from my home), none of the students were able to protect and defend themselves. That's probably why his rage was confined to campus and not directed toward everybody he met that day. Somebody in Blacksburg would have killed him, for sure.
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ningyo1 year, 5 months ago
its not a cho thing..as someone said--it is an asian thing--when you do something ..we feel it reflects on the family..the ancestors..and the community..all feel the shame of cho's violence..even his village in so korea felt obligated to make amends and apologize...this is the real version of it takes a village...not the phony made-up socialism one that hillary spouts
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mallurajt1 year, 5 months ago
Cho Family Finally made a comment to little to late. The pain they must feel is awful but the pain their brat caused is much worse than what they are feeling. Hey Cho's what took you this long to make a statement?? What took you so long to throw your psycho son in mental ward?
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