http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cho/ en-us Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:58:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379790/posts WASHINGTON — Military officials say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected shooter at Fort Hood, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed. The Virginia-born soldier is single with no children. He is 39 years old. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. At Walter Reed, he did an internship, residency and a fellowship. Daily Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379790/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2298332/posts Missing mental health records of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. The memo said the records were removed from the Cook Counseling Center on the Virginia Tech campus more than a year before the shootings. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_re_us/us_virginia_tech_shooting AP via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2298332/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:08:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298312/posts RICHMOND, Va. – Missing mental health records of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Cho killed 32 people on April 16, 2007, then committed suicide as police closed in. His mental health treatment has been a major issue in the investigation of the shootings. A memo from Gov. Tim Kaine's chief legal counsel to victims' family members says Cho's records and those of several other Virginia Tech students were found July 18 in the home of Dr. Robert... Yahoo News-AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298312/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:45:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186363/posts A week after Miley Cyrus addressed her photo flap, the singer continues to draw criticism from some in the Asian community – including Korean comedian Margaret Cho. Cyrus denied she was mocking Asians when a photograph of her pulling at the corners of her eyes surfaced on the Internet. "There are some people upset about some pictures taken of me with friends making goofy faces," Cyrus wrote on her official Web site. "Well, I'm sorry if those people looked at those pics and took them wrong and out of context!" In turn, Cho took to her blog on Wednesday to... People Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186363/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056097/posts The first convention of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) featured at least one speaker who said college students bearing arms on campus would not make anyone safer. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, a gun control advocacy group, said studies show that college students are more likely to engage in risky behavior than the general population. “When I look back on my college days, maybe it was a different era in the late ‘60s, but most of my fraternity brothers didn’t have criminal records – not yet, most of them, even those who were in ROTC and... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056097/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:57:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055822/posts A Virginia Tech employee shot himself in a room off the Cassell Coliseum arena on Saturday afternoon, officials said. Tech police responded to the incident at 2:15 p.m., and the man was flown to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, police Chief Wendell Flinchum said. Officials declined to identify the man, and his condition is unknown. Although officials said the shooting posed no threat to the campus community, Flinchum said police notified the public by e-mail using part of an alert system put in place after the April 16, 2007, shootings. The Roanoke Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055822/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:25:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996198/posts Barack Obama is embracing anti-gun policies in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. “I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.” These remarks break from Obama’s previous moderate rhetoric on gun control. While campaigning in Idaho in February, Obama promised, “I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.” Obama elaborated later that month in a political forum sponsored by ABC News and the Politico. He said: “I... WIND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996198/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:57:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980768/posts The Virginia General Assembly voted Tuesday for the first major overhaul of the state's mental health system in three decades, largely in response to the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. The House and Senate passed a package of bills designed to give families and courts greater flexibility in having people who are mentally ill involuntarily committed, among other changes. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980768/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:42:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933662/posts WASHINGTON -- Since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring, the FBI has more than doubled the number of people nationwide who are prohibited from buying guns because of mental health problems, the Justice Department said Thursday. Justice officials said the FBI's Mental Defective File has ballooned from 175,000 names in June to nearly 400,000, primarily additions from California. The names are listed in a subset of a database that gun dealers are supposed to check before completing their sales. The surge in names underscores the vastness of the gap in FBI records that allowed Seung-hui Cho to purchase the handguns... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933662/posts#comment Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:40:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917198/posts Earlier this year, Virginia’s Roanoke Times newspaper came under intense scrutiny and near-universal condemnation after its editors made the irresponsible and dangerous choice to post a searchable database of Virginia’s Right-to-Carry permit holders on its website. In doing so, the paper provided anyone with access to the internet (including criminals) the name, home address, and permit issuance and expiration date of more than 135,000 Virginia permit holders. Thankfully, after hearing from outraged, law-abiding gun owners and non-gun owners alike, the paper prudently decided to remove the database from its website and not repost it, citing a “concern for public safety.”... National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917198/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914638/posts 1. Roanoke Times will no longer allow any gun shows to advertise in their paper!!! 2. MMM has its protest at a church instead of the Richmond gun show 3. This is TOO FUNNY! The Daily Press accidentally gives VCDL yet ANOTHER great plug! ************************************************************* 1. Roanoke Times will no longer allow any gun shows to advertise in their paper!!! ************************************************************* Every time that I think the Roanoke Times has sunk as far as the toilet will let them go, they seem to find a new dent in the porcelain. Because of the Virginia Tech massacre, WHICH HAD NOTHING TO... Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. - VA-Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914638/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889160/posts Public Safety: A governor's report on the Virginia Tech shootings says earlier warnings might have helped reduce the carnage. It says nothing about VT's complicity in denying the murdered their right to self-defense. After the release of Virginia Tech's internal review of the shooting spree in April that left 33 dead, it was hard to imagine a more clueless document on the tragedy being released. But the report released Wednesday by an eight-member panel headed by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine takes the prize. VT's review called on police, counselors and other university personnel to monitor students whose behavior might indicate... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889160/posts#comment Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888767/posts Could a member of the Bar elucidate on whether even if VaTech knew more of Cho, would FERPA (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) not have allowed them to act against him ahead of time. My head hurts just reading the legislation. U.S. Dept of Education http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888767/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888786/posts BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Days of debate have produced no rational explanation for the Virginia Tech massacre other than the fact the gunman began by placing no value on his own life. Someone who is prepared to die is lethal, as suicide bombers have proven too often. But while government policy throughout the Western world has been turned upside down to combat terrorism, many of us react to the carnage unleashed on Monday by throwing up our hands in despair. That's because doing something about mentally disturbed people such as Cho Seung-hui before they commit a serious crime is unacceptable to... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888786/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889064/posts RICHMOND, Va. - The gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child — shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3. His teachers said he began showing suicidal and homicidal tendencies by the eighth grade. ADVERTISEMENT A new report that provides the most comprehensive look yet at Seung-Hui Cho also shows his parents, teachers and mental health counselors wove a safety net that held him together through most of high school. Then, in his junior year, Cho declared "there is nothing wrong with me" and turned away from treatment, the... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889064/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887058/posts ...Professors and school administrators at Virginia Tech could not have known of Cho's emotional disability -- Fairfax [high school] officials were forbidden from telling them. Federal privacy and disability laws prohibit high schools from sharing with colleges private information such as a student's special education coding or disability, according to high school and college guidance and admissions officials. Those laws also prohibit colleges from asking for such information. The only way Virginia Tech officials would have known about Cho's anxiety and selective mutism would have been if Cho or his parents told them about it and asked for accommodations to... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887058/posts#comment Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:38:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832383/posts I have no way of knowing if this post is permitted or not? Freerepublic .. as I see it usually deals in current events and breaking news. I have a question and it seems Odd, even to me to ask a question on this site. My wife, God bless her, has children, (previous marriage) who graduated from Virginia Tech. Somehow, I stepped over the line tonite by saying that some students .. at Tech, stood, like sheep and waited to be shot by Cho. She is in complete denial and is so mad at me that I don't know what... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832383/posts#comment Sat, 12 May 2007 06:10:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828824/posts In the weeks since the deadly Virginia Tech shootings, reports have revealed shooter Seung-Hui Cho as a shy, introverted person who never spoke, was taunted in high school and didn't seem to have friends. The shooting spree that claimed the lives of 33 people, including Cho, who committed suicide, prompted educators across the nation not only to re-examine campus safety policies but also to put the issue of bullying at the forefront of discussion. Ventura County Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828824/posts#comment Sat, 5 May 2007 13:17:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828432/posts The Che Guevara Farce, Humberto Fontova Thursday, May 3, 2007 His writings revealed a severely troubled young man. "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" The term "hatred" was a constant in his writings: "Hatred as an element of struggle"; "hatred that is intransigent;" "hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828432/posts#comment Fri, 4 May 2007 15:59:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1828037/posts Was Cho Seung-Hui Possessed?There were howls of laughter when Fox News published an article raising the question of whether the devil may have influenced Cho Seung-Hui to commit the Virginia Tech massacre. Fox just reported the comments of various Christian leaders on the subject and did not intend to settle the question, but the cynicism of the godless media and society was predictable and to be expected. Since the devil doesn’t exist—they say—how could anyone be so irresponsible as to try to explain away Cho’s deed by recourse to the spiritual?Well, first let me say that, as a Catholic priest,... HLI International Commentaries http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1828037/posts#comment Thu, 3 May 2007 22:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826604/posts Like Congressman James Moran in search of an excuse to confiscate privately-owned firearms, Pat Buchanan seeks to glom onto the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. Like James Moran, Pat Buchanan reeks of execrable thinking and primitive hatred. Both men are truly Sons of Erin. However, just because I like green beer and rooting vehemently against Notre Dame Football, I’ll decline to follow the path of bigoted hate-mongering tread by the odious Patrick J. Buchanan in today’s column. Buchanan attaches profound significance to the fact that Cho Sueng-Hui had a green card. Boy, that detail comes in handy, when you want... RedState.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826604/posts#comment Tue, 1 May 2007 16:15:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826482/posts Since the massacre of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, the mainstream media have obsessed over the fact the crazed gunman was able to buy a Glock in the state of Virginia. Little attention has been paid to the Richmond legislators who voted to make "Hokie Nation," a Middle American campus of 26,000 kids, a gun-free zone where only the madman had a semi-automatic. Almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Cho Seung-Hui was not an American at all, but an immigrant, an alien. Had this deranged young man who secretly hated us never come here,... worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826482/posts#comment Tue, 1 May 2007 13:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826680/posts RICHMOND -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine yesterday closed a legal loophole that allowed a mentally ill Virginia Tech student to buy the guns he used to kill 32 classmates and faculty. Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, signed an executive order requiring anybody ordered by a court to get mental health treatment be added to a state police database of people barred from buying guns. A court in 2005 ordered outpatient counseling for the student, Seung-hui Cho, after he was judged to be mentally ill and a danger to himself. But because he was not committed to a mental hospital, Cho... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826680/posts#comment Tue, 1 May 2007 18:10:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825704/posts A particularly troubling aspect of the news coverage of the gruesome massacre at Virginia Tech is the fact that no one seems to hate the killer, Cheo Seung-Hui. Indeed, he is not even referred to as a killer or a murderer. Cheo is invariably described as a gunman or a shooter. A gunman implies someone who goes to a local gun range a few times a month, and a shooter connotes someone who pops off a couple of rounds in the woods with friends. It conveys nothing of the monstrous nature of Cheo's crimes, the cold-blooded and deliberate slaughter of... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825704/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:14:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823112/posts BLACKSBURG, Va., April 18 — Cho Seung-Hui rarely spoke to his own dormitory roommate. His teachers were so disturbed by some of his writing that they referred him to counseling. And when Mr. Cho finally and horrifyingly came to the world’s attention on Monday, he did so after writing a note that bitterly lashed out at his fellow students for what he deemed their moral decay. Mr. Cho’s eruption of violence, in which 32 victims and himself were killed on the Virginia Tech campus here in a rampage of gunfire, was never directly signaled by his actions or words, several... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823112/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:48:14 GMT