Yes, especially because NBC, I'm sure, "immediately" called the authorities. Right after they ran all of the evidence through the full-color copier.

Shred that sh%t NBC!!! I'm ashamed of your organization for making copies of that - how well do you think the families of the victims are going to appreciate that? There goes my respect for your network! "Glorious"? More like "SHAMEFUL"!

I have to admit, showing all of that stuff on national television was exactly what American press is known for. Get the ratings… it's all about the ratings. Screw the ratings.

Funny, they can't release it to the public on Internet so that they can review them at their own leasure and discretion, but they can broadcast it out to millions of families. LOVE IT. Welcome to America.

It's the business of news organizations to print, broadcast, and post the news. NBC did what they're suppose to do, and those who complain probably watched every minute of the broadcast. Americans go into shock whenever violence like this happens in the USA, but similar violence goes on day after day in Iraq and most Americans couldn't care less.

okay guys, posting that stuff like pics of the guy, not so nice…maybe the guy was mentally ill or something and it was so bad for him that he couldnt handle it, i dont know! or maybe he was so miserable that he just did it…but he didnt have to take peoples lives…still he made a big mistake..although thats no reason to forgive him…and why did the news put it on tv? like, that must be embarrassing and horrible and everything else to the family…you news people are creeps to do that…

I think it is important that his words and experience be shown to educators, parents, psychologists, and those who are constantly helping us parents watch over our children. There was MUCH more than simple 'mental illness' and not all depression is chemical. If there was more of an effort to teach tolerance in schools EARLY on- there would be fewer kids growing into raging adults. Personal Responsibility– IS KEY!

KG– Stand up and take a bow. Americans are the biggest hypocrites in town. They do not give a crap about anybody but themselves. The only reason they could talk about NBC is because they ALL WATCHED it. Now the complainants need to look around their sorry asses and take note of anyone around them who may look disturbed, or seem to have a personality disorder, and do something about it, like engaging that person in conversations and extending a helping hand. Now Cho's roomates and 'friends' are coming out for their 15 minutes of fame but if these mama's boys took an adult attitude (they are in college, right?) and extended a helping hand, we won't be talking about this now. All these critics of NBC, why aren't they talking about the 173 people who were murdered two days ago in Iraq? Iraq news sometimes get a 60 second sound bite if you are lucky!

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Question Marks…

"This didn't have to happen", Cho Seung-Hui said, after brutally murdering thirty-two people at Virginia Tech University.

And this terrible tragedy of sons, daughters, mothers and fathers didn't have to happen, if we'd only listened.

But we never listen.

We never listen to those that are different from us- the outcasts, the lonely, the homeless, the ones that are unspoken for. We don't try to understand. We shun them and put them out of our minds because of our fear that we will become like them.

And these people become more and more lonely and alienated in their isolation.

Words like "creep", "deranged misfit" and "psycho" devalue this killer's humanity so we don't have to face how similar he is to us. Cries of "how could he have been stopped" are uttered by media quick to sensationalize and gain market share, when the words "how could he have been listened to" are never considered.

Because we don't want to listen.

We don't want to hear about loneliness and alienation when we're all so busy with our lives, making money and making friends. And the unpopular, the ones that don't fit in, the lonely ones are ignored or made fun of because we don't care to understand anything about them.

As a boy, Cho Seung-Hui "was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness" (Associated Press). When he started college, according to the Guardian, "his mother took his dormitory mates to one side to explain about her son's unusual character and implored them to help."

And he clearly needed help, devaluing himself so much that he called himself "Question Mark".

There are more "Question Marks" out there. There are millions of them. And if we don't listen to them, they will follow the same path again and again, because people are not connecting. We are becoming more and more disconnected from each other, creating more and more "Question Marks" every day.

Most "Question Marks" don't become murderers. Some just kill themselves. Most harm no one and live just as we do, needing antidepressants to appear what we call "normal". They may be someone you know, someone you love.

This "Question Mark" was once a little boy, who cried, and smiled and loved, He wanted to fit in just like you and I. But that desire to fit in transformed itself into anger towards a society that shunned and ignored him.

How many more times will we shun and ignore the one that doesn't fit in, the one in the corner, the one that's different? When all we have to do is listen, before it's too late.

But we won't.

Thirty-two human beings who did not know Cho Seung-Hui were murdered.
They were sons, daughters, fathers and mothers, with dreams of futures that will never come and children that will never be born. The thirty-two leave behind people that love them. People that are now scarred for life by this horrible day of death.

To most of us that have not been directly involved, this tragedy will become a memory and fade like all the others that came before.

And the "Question Marks" will appear with more frequency, again and again, because we don't listen.

We never do.

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THC - are you nuts - what are you talking about - that we as a society should start picking and choosing who the outcasts are or not and then start pacifying them? - the bottom line is that you or I will never know exactly what is going on in this guy's head. He is probably bi-polar or suffered from some sort of chemical imbalance - he did refuse to take medication - he obviously is not thinking on the same wave lengths as possibly you or I. You can't rationalize with the irrational. Listen? - listen to exactly just what?

It's people like you that protect the rights of the nut cases out there. You probably don't think we listen to the terrorist either and if we did….maybe they won't kill anymore either and become are friends and then we can all live in a fuzzy warm place called earth!

By the way - I did not watch the video tape - nor will I ever. I have a son graduating from a college 45 minutes from Virginia Tech next month - out of respect for the grieving families I refuse to give that loser anymore attention - he doesn't deserve it.

I'll be watching my son graduate - those familites will never reach that pivotal moment in their child's life.

NBC has no class and basically sold out their integrity for money and ratings - they are just as bad as that mass murderer for gaining attention on other's misery and sorrow. Pathetic!

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