If education alone is the key to helping our society avoid these horrendous acts then why was it perputrated by someone who was obviously educated enough to have gain acceptance to one of Virgnia’s premier universities? Who has a sister who attend(ed) Princeton University? Who had parents who recongized the inadaquecies of thier native land to seek a better life in the United States, where one of their reasons were the educational opportunities for their children to have a better life?

I hope we recongize and those who we have elected to lead us recongize where they need to be educated. They need to gain a clear understanding of how this young man was able to make it through society, gain acceptance to VT all while having a mental illness and yet still turn into a murderous creep.

Preach all of the Shakespeare, DeVinci and Aristotle you want, but if we bury our heads in the sand in the face of the lessons Cho Sueng-Hui is trying to teach us our great society is sure to see these acts of this nature to continue to occur. If we do not seek improvements to how we deal with mental health in this state and country we are sure to see this happen again.

Del. Lingamfelter take this as an opportunity to educate yourself, your colleaugues and the state on how Virginia is going to become a leader in mental health and how we are going to avoid producing another Cho Sueng-Hui.

The videotape, which I have not seen, communicated information which was relevant to understanding the tragedy.

With all the second guessing and investigation into the murderer’s background how can one not believe that there is such a thing as good and evil?

Bill Bennett was on Hannity last night and made a very good point about this obsession with the videotape and rantings of the murderer. He said that if all we do is obsess about him we will only fall deeper and deeper into the darkness. Rather, we need to emphasize the professors who tried to save their students; the Eagle Scout who was able to keep his wits about him and save his own life by putting a tourniquet on his leg; the other students who placed tables against the doors to keep him out and all the others.

But one other scary thing to consider, on Fox this morning there was a discussion about whether or not NBC should have shown the tape and pictures. Bernie Goldberg, as a seasoned news man said the networks did it, not just as a matter of news, but because they knew people wanted to see it. But the other person there, a journalism student from UVA asked rhetorically, “Was it right to show the material?

“Well,” he said (and I’m paraphrasing), “that’s hard to say because whether or not it was right is a PERSONAL OPINION”.

Scary.