Can only hope they get caught and soon....
Posted on 01/22/2009 5:27:24 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
Yes, that was a type O. Check the next post where I corrected it. No threat taken...
My heart and prayers go out to her parents and any brothers and/or sisters she might have had
“many asian students are under a lot of pressure..to excel,”
My freshman year at the University, I had a roommate from Hong Kong. She would get very upset with herself if she did not get perfect grades. An “A” was not good enough, it must be an “A+”. She would tell me of her failure and said her imperfection was due to a “careless mistake”. She was very hard on herself. She was a brilliant student.
No. Video games do not have anything to do with this. Video games are not a legitimate scapegoat. I have played VERY violent video games for years and have yet to commit ANY acts of violence...hell, I haven’t even ever gotten into a FIGHT with someone!
Video games don’t cause this kind of behavior, you’re right. But that’s not to say they don’t have anything to do with this.
The subconscious mind is a tricky thing. It can’t meaningfully distinguish between reality and a particularly vivid visualization. To the subconscious, they are the same thing: prior memories and therefore reference points for future conduct.
Particularly detailed first person violent video games do present the subconscious mind with vivid, real memories of unbridled violence (where as older generation video games didn’t come close to such a vivid visualization). To be fair, a person with a particularly good imagination can create even more vivid (and therefore ‘real’) reference points. The problem isn’t the game (or someone’s imagination), but to say they don’t have anything to do with this isn’t accurate.
I knew I could never ever view such a thing. Imagining it is awful enough. The killers who did that to Daniel Pearl, are still no doubt wandering the Earth.
I lived right across the street from the VT campus when the massacre occurred.
I actually heard the shots. I thought it was construction at first.
I have never seen so many police in my life.
I have never seen so much news media in my life.
Then the next day the President showed up.
What a strange few days that was.
I will answer any questions you have, cause I was there.
“What is it with VT having twice now an Asian student going murderous on campus?”
And don’t forget the nice chinese man on that Canadian bus who decided to decapitate the fellow sitting next to him.
Then there was the incident in Beijing during the Olympics.
I would be curious to see how many violent crimes are actually attributable to violence in video games. I would surmise that the number would be infinitesimally small...
I agree. But I didn’t suggest otherwise.
Absolutely not.
Cho wasn’t Chinese.
Certainly, I’m not the first to say: “It was Bush’s fault.”
I guess I’ll take your word for it. I do not believe in any way it is a scapegoat but it wouldn’t surprise me to find out some people are vulnerable to dehumanizing their perceived enemies.
Students were probably taught not to be vigalantes and didn't want to escalate the violence.
Man had a lot of anger stored up to decapitate her. Or is he a professional assassin posing as a student?
Not sure if fox has this correct, the local report was she was just stabbed in the chest. And they also said she was a graduate student.
If you are martial art weapons trained then something like this would be extremely simple to perform.
Can only hope they get caught and soon....
Here’s the official version
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/pdf/affidavit012209.pdf
Warning: Very graphic and ugly
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