Quoted: The Nation's Bruce Shapiro On The 'Story' Behind Virginia Tech

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It will take time before anyone can say with certainty how Cho managed to get away with such a massacre…But in a sense the important thing now is how the story gets told and understood. The profoundly human yearning to impose a narrative line on chaotic tragedy leaves the meaning of an event like Virginia Tech up for grabs. Whether it is "impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering" (as President Bush told the VT convocation) is a question with deep consequences, open equally to dangerous political exploitation and to just as dangerous fatalism about prevention and accountability.

–Bruce Shapiro, exerpted from his piece "Story Lines At Viriginia Tech" from The Nation

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    No. 1 Charles E. Donovan says:

    I would have been suspended from Georgetown University had I not maintained a "C" average. Severe mental illness is acceptable at Virginia Tech. I don't get it.

    This is clear evidence of the general publics lack of understanding of severe depression, suicidal ideation's and mental health issues.

    http://www.MyDepressionSpace.com

    Posted: Apr 20, 2007 at 12:29 pm
    No. 2 Tyler Goines says:

    I can’t speak for anyone especially for a killer .I can only speak for myself. Let’s take five seconds….. Just five seconds to think against the grain. Maybe the news media is lying to us. Maybe, just maybe he wasn’t crazy but driven to an insane action by those who felt too comfortable. They could have acted however they wanted cause either daddy or the authorities would fly in to protect these arrogant, spoiled kids. …… Once again I don’t know any of these kids. And for the families I understand the grief, but is it possible you didn’t see your little angels inter act with this madman. Is it possible your children themselves pushed him to this action? Would he have taken a different road if little Johnny was a little more decent to little cho.
    Why else did the media stop showing the tapes? Do you really believe they grew a conscience. They now know decency? I can’t say, but I know people are seeing SOME truth to what cho said. They speak it to me without prompting. That’s why they stop showing the tapes.
    Then again maybe these kids were innocent and cho was a complete nut.
    Personally I never met anyone dead or alive who is innocent. I know your three year old is innocent but your three year old knows when, where and how to lie. No?

    Maybe cho realized these college children would have grown up to be truly a negative affect on the world at large.
    Tell me how different the story would be if we could go back and kill Hitler when he was in college. Do you really believe the media would have patted our man on the back? No! he would be a monster.
    I really don’t believe any of these kids were Hitler but what if cho wasn’t too far from the truth.

    I don’t know anyone involved, and my point is not to pass judgment on anyone.
    All I wish to say is I’m really getting tired of the media and every easily lead moron telling me how to look at things. People, have your opinions and someone will always disagree with whatever your saying.
    Stop thinking the way they tell you to…………….. Form your own opinion and don’t have any fear to speak your mind……………..

    Remember if you call me names cause you don’t agree with me then you know what started cho….. Maybe your apart of the problem not me

    - Tyler Goines
    05 01 07

    Posted: May 1, 2007 at 1:03 am
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