It’s pretty hard to come up with anything poignant or wise to say in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. There certainly isn’t anything funny to say. But I feel that I’d like to say something.
I don’t know about anyone else, but many times I find myself wondering what I’d do if I were ever forced to play the part of the victim in circumstances such as these. I like to think that I’d be able to do something about it. I like to think that I could subdue the antagonist in some way. I like to think that I would be able to outsmart the evildoer and come out on top. Sometimes I even like to think that I would be immune to the bullets penetrating my body, and I’d have the stamina to take out the bad guy. I have watched too many adventure movies, I think.
Because believe it or not, reality doesn’t pay attention to movie scripts or game programs. It’s true. There’s no “Save Game” feature here. No “Reload from Last Position” option. Guns kill. Really. And unfortunately, there are too many people who are willing to use them on others. It’s a sad thing. To decide to kill another person “just because” is an act of evil. Pure evil to the core. That’s what Cho Seung-Hui was. Evil. You do not have to agree with me.
Many might say that this man who caused this evil upon others had an excuse. “He was abused as a child,” they say. “He was bullied as a teenager and mistreated by classmates in college.” So it’s other people’s fault he went ballistic? From a psychological standpoint, he was pushed to the brink and this is the only out he saw, right? So he had an excuse? That’s just a big pot full of steaming male bovine manure.
This man has no excuse for what he did. He said it himself in his video - he could have walked away. He could have walked away! But he didn’t. He consciously planned out the deaths of other people. Maybe he needed help, but he didn’t want it. He wanted to kill these people! He was evil. You don’t have to agree with me.
I was bullied as a child. I was teased and mistreated in school. I wasn’t the most popular kid in the class, and I was, in many ways, a loner. According to the definitions that some people have placed on Cho, I have just as much of an excuse to go off on people as he did, right? But despite the fact that I should be depressed and considering killing others, I’m not. In fact, I can not identify with any person who could ever think to pull the trigger and unleash a lethal projectile at another person, and do so willingly just because they were teased. This man was pure evil.
You don’t have to agree with me.
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1 Katie // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I agree. Satan had him in his grasp…Cho chose where he would be spending his eternity. I feel bad for all the victims and their families and I feel terrible for Cho’s family. I would rather be the mother of the child who got hit and not the mother of the hitter.
2 Sharon // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I am the sister of a ‘hitter’ and know the mother of the ‘hitter’. They are both very unique/interesting positions to be in. Yes, Cho made a choice, but who is to judge that he is of pure evil? Not us simple human beings. We are commanded to forgive, no matter what. Excuses and blaming aside, we do NOT have the full picture. That doesn’t make the situation right. My only question on situations like this is “Did someone knowingly miss an opportuntiy to seriously intervene before this final horrific act took place?” Only God knows. NOt even the closest people to the ‘hitter’ truly know if they could have prevented such a situation and should always review any guilt they may have and give it up to God. Easier said than done though, I know. That’s just my perspective and I choose not to get overly emotionally involved and make any judgement.
3 Sharon // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Hey!!! Did I just respond to my sister? Another sister of previously said ‘hitter’? LOL
4 Katie // Apr 21, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I wasn’t saying Cho is of pure evil. His act was evil for sure. I’m not trying to judge…we all do that just a bit anyway, even though we know it isn’t our place. About the “hitter” thing, I was just thinking out loud about how as hard as it is to have a loved one murdered and suffer the pain of that loss, “I” feel that it would be much harder to have a loved one take away the lives of other’s loved ones. Hence the mother of the one hit or the mother of the hitter or biter or what have you.
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