VA Tech Shooting

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Anoohilator · #46 Post by **Anoohilator** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:39 pm

Metro reported that people on ebay are even trying to make money off this by selling domains with the virginia tech massacre somehow incorporated in the URL...

Fiddelysquat · #47 Post by **Fiddelysquat** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:02 pm

I find it vulgar when people sensationalize the event. The best thing to do is just offer respect and condolences. There are also rumors that a play the shooter wrote is available online. It disgusts me when people try to ride the coattails of a tragedy for personal gain.

(BTW, don't any of you dare link to it, because I've read it and it's definitely not appropriate for the forums, okay?)

Uncle Xyzzy · #48 Post by **Uncle Xyzzy** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:52 pm

Fiddelysquat wrote:I find it vulgar when people sensationalize the event. The best thing to do is just offer respect and condolences. There are also rumors that a play the shooter wrote is available online. It disgusts me when people try to ride the coattails of a tragedy for personal gain.

(BTW, don't any of you dare link to it, because I've read it and it's definitely not appropriate for the forums, okay?)

I agree, even though no one else does:

LAst October, my NaNoWriMo group was at a Starbucks at a Barnes & Noble. We were discussing how disgusted we were with the commercialization of 9/11. We were told to leave, because people around us were mad that we had real opinions.

Asthaloth · #49 Post by **Asthaloth** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:25 pm

Fiddelysquat wrote:I find it vulgar when people sensationalize the event. The best thing to do is just offer respect and condolences. There are also rumors that a play the shooter wrote is available online. It disgusts me when people try to ride the coattails of a tragedy for personal gain.

(BTW, don't any of you dare link to it, because I've read it and it's definitely not appropriate for the forums, okay?)

That's why I love it here.
Everyone is either too idiotic or apathetic to worry, we've seen it all already and nothing phases us anymore.

Matterbug · #50 Post by **Matterbug** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:07 pm

I agree that part of it is for publicity and commercialization, and that is disgusting, but I think reading the play and similar items he writes actually provides an important sort of physlogical look into Cho, and what would drive him to something like this.

They're also reporting now that he sent a statement, photos, and videos to NBC News sometime inbetween the two shootings. So odd. They'll be airing some of it in half an hour on the NBC Nightly News.

Still kinda shocked by it all, it's so tragic.

Mongrel · #51 Post by **Mongrel** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:14 pm

That's horrible. My teacher said he wished they hadn't released the gunman's name, because it just gives other people the incentive to break the grotesque record and go down in history. If NBC is showing the nation his videos and stuff, doesn't that give someone else even MORE incentive to go out and massacre people to get his/her message out to the nation and the world?
I wish NBC weren't playing along like that. He could set his stuff up online somewhere and have it passed along that way and that wouldn't have bothered me as much, but having a national media outlet feeding the frenzy sickens me.

Light · #52 Post by **Light** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:39 pm

Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building Monday morning, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News a large package, including photographs and videos, lamenting that “I didn’t have to do this,” the network said Wednesday.

Cho, 23, a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, killed 32 people in two attacks before taking his own life.

NBC News President Steve Capus said the network received the package in Wednesday morning’s mail delivery and immediately turned the materials over to FBI agents in New York.

MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18169776/?GT1=9246.

It is 6:39 and it has been aired on NBC Nightly News.

#53 Post by **Siouxper** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:05 pm

I saw that on TV. He sure made a lot of videos and writings.

But when people make money off of these things it seems a little rude. Tragedies are not meant to be money making opportunities. But they are entitled to have their own opinions and can do what they want to, and we can't stop them.

Drake Redcrest · #54 Post by **Drake Redcrest** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:34 am

Setekh wrote:
Fiddelysquat wrote:I find it vulgar when people sensationalize the event. The best thing to do is just offer respect and condolences. There are also rumors that a play the shooter wrote is available online. It disgusts me when people try to ride the coattails of a tragedy for personal gain.

(BTW, don't any of you dare link to it, because I've read it and it's definitely not appropriate for the forums, okay?)

That's why I love it here.
Everyone is either too idiotic or apathetic to worry, we've seen it all already and nothing phases us anymore.

Gosh, you're quite personable, aren't you?

Paul · #55 Post by **Paul** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:08 am

Drake Redcrest wrote:
Setekh wrote:
Fiddelysquat wrote:I find it vulgar when people sensationalize the event. The best thing to do is just offer respect and condolences. There are also rumors that a play the shooter wrote is available online. It disgusts me when people try to ride the coattails of a tragedy for personal gain.

(BTW, don't any of you dare link to it, because I've read it and it's definitely not appropriate for the forums, okay?)

That's why I love it here.
Everyone is either too idiotic or apathetic to worry, we've seen it all already and nothing phases us anymore.

Gosh, you're quite personable, aren't you?

Oh, don't mind Setekh, he's always like that.

siouxper wrote:But when people make money off of these things it seems a little rude. Tragedies are not meant to be money making opportunities. But they are entitled to have their own opinions and can do what they want to, and we can't stop them.

I completely agree, couldn't have worded it any better, but you soon realise people have been lining their pockets from tradgies for hundreds of years, I'm willing to wager, for instance; Titanic, World War I, and World War II; the Holocaust, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, The Cold War, Vietnam/Korean war, the first Gulf war.. the list is endless.

Quite sickening, really.

Uncle Xyzzy · #56 Post by **Uncle Xyzzy** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:14 pm

Another reason I'm hating the commercialization of this:

One of my freinds found out yesterday that one of her friends was killed in the attack. We were discussingt it in class, and she began crying in the middle of it. If that's the reaction of friends of the victims, then the media's treating them like crap.

I'm also really annoyed at NBC for asking Cho's roommate if he played Command and Conquer, since, as we know, people don't kill people, videogames kill people.

Ixist · #57 Post by **Ixist** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:50 pm

Uncle Xyzzy wrote:I'm also really annoyed at NBC for asking Cho's roommate if he played Command and Conquer, since, as we know, people don't kill people, videogames kill people.

Don't even get me started on this. Not even a day had passed before Jack Thompson tried to blame the killings on Video Games. Dr Phil even tried to get in on the act and blame movies and VGs. Rush Limbaugh, a man who I usually despise, had to come to their defence because even he could see how stupid they were being.

And you know what? There were no video games found in Cho's room. Not even Tetris.

Bangel · #58 Post by **Bangel** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:09 pm

Moongewl wrote:My teacher said he wished they hadn't released the gunman's name, because it just gives other people the incentive to break the grotesque record and go down in history. If NBC is showing the nation his videos and stuff, doesn't that give someone else even MORE incentive to go out and massacre people to get his/her message out to the nation and the world?

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

I highly doubt it's just coincidence that the high school here just received a gun threat for tomorrow. Then again, we pretty much get bomb threats every other day... not to mention that one time with the anthrax scare...

And we're actually one of the highest rated high schools in the state. Way to go, society.

#59 Post by **Siouxper** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:51 pm

Bangel wrote:
Moongewl wrote:My teacher said he wished they hadn't released the gunman's name, because it just gives other people the incentive to break the grotesque record and go down in history. If NBC is showing the nation his videos and stuff, doesn't that give someone else even MORE incentive to go out and massacre people to get his/her message out to the nation and the world?

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

I highly doubt it's just coincidence that the high school here just received a gun threat for tomorrow. Then again, we pretty much get bomb threats every other day... not to mention that one time with the anthrax scare...

And we're actually one of the highest rated high schools in the state. Way to go, society.

I agree. Recently, we had a bomb threat at the U of M (in my home state of MN), there have been shootings at Red Lake, numerous threats of shootings and bombs, and a stabbing at my school. I know someone is going to try and beat it, and if they do, I hope I'm not there when they do it.

.neko. · #60 Post by **.neko.** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:38 am

Setekh wrote:That's why I love it here.
Everyone is either too idiotic or apathetic to worry, we've seen it all already and nothing phases us anymore.

That was rude and uncalled for Setekh. If you have something unpleasent to say about other members of the forum then take it off the site. Nobody wants to hear your opinions about who is and who is not an idiot, especially on a thread about something as tragic as this. Please show more respect to our members.