It’s important to be cautious, but it’s also important to enjoy life. Don’t
live in fear.
~~=oP
Well said Ambassador.
[size=92]Yeah… no wonder my parents hardly let me out and about by
myself… anything could happen. I quote from the Prospector (TS2), "It’s a dangerous world out there for a
toy." …Even though we’re not toys, but you know what I mean.[/size]
It just makes me sad to see these people die so
young.
This is so sad. 
I hear that the gun man was a student of
VT.
Were thinking about you, and praying for you VT
Exactly.
Look before you leap and be cautious, but don’t go overboard and freak out whenever a leaf blows in front of
your face. (heh)
I think the worst thing is that
there’s footage of the shootings on the news; I’d like to think if I’d been there, reaching for my mobile
phone, it would be to call the police and not to film the whole ordeal. What sort of person films something like
that?
It’s such a senseless tradegy, it really is, and the fact that Jack Thompson’s pushing this
violent game ban on the back of it is just disgusting. I remember after the Columbine shootings a few years ago,
the media burst into a frenzy about banning musical acts like Marilyn Manson because that “encouraged”
the violence. You can’t blame violence on video games or music, you can’t even blame the gun culture; Britain
is against carrying arms and it’s rife with knife crime.
Hearing that made me sorta understand why they had scanning in my school, and the stories of
Columbine always scared me, but I never feared it happening in my school. It’s the police that scare me, when
they’re pushing us along and treating us like common criminals.
Not to single people out, but they should
keep those with histories of mental illness seperate from us. I know they don’t like to isolate, but just
yesterday a mental kid flipped out and flung a book at a kid. Gods forbid he had a gun.
Then again, it’s
also difficult to single out some other people, as some people could be normal their whole life and then just
snap.
As much as guns are a danger in school- I believe they should have metal detectors in every school,
but they shouldn’t treat us like criminals and confiscate stupid stuff like water bottles and Dunkin’ Donuts.
x__x
I think it’s different for me here in New York- I’m more worried for airports, office buildings and
subways than my high school. I worry about terrorists.
Mitch…"I’M
LOST!" 
As JV mentioned above, the gunman was a 23-year-old
senior VA Tech student named Cho Seung-Hui.
[b]
[quoted from AOL
News]
[/b]
The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead
was identified Tuesday as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the
school’s counseling service.
News reports also said that he may have been taking medication for
depression, that he was becoming increasingly violent and erratic, and that he left a note in his dorm in which
he railed against “rich kids,” “debauchery” and “deceitful charlatans” on
campus.
:shock: Sheesh.
~~=oP
Poor guy. I really felt sorry for him. In fact, on
Yahoo.com, it said that he was just a lonley guy.
Puh-ha! Oh man, I’m laughing so hard right now… 
Great balls of cheese – the poor guy. It’s incredible what depression can
do to a person; it gets so bad to the point that a person will just blow and go ballistic. Yeesh…
Gosh, that whole school massacre is terrible. I think it
never happened such thing in Portuguese schools, and I hope it doesn’t happen in the future.
But, I mean,
what’s the point of getting into a school and start shooting innocent people?! I don’t get it…
To the
victims’ families and friends, my condolences. 
I agree…
Definitely the most horrendous thing about this was the
fact that the police were so slow to react even after several students had already been killed- they practically
invited the gunman to kill more people. My condolences to the friends and family of those who were killed.
When I get to school next week, it is going to be a
really serious and solemn day.
I’ve been depressed, manically, at
times. But what he lacked was a friend to turn to or a positive outlet. It’s a real shame …
Yep. You need love if
your going to survive in this world. You’ve gotta have great friends and a good family…I’m sure this guy
didn’t have either.
I saw a photo
of the shooter.
The boy is a South Korean external resident in that area around where he went into the
building and started shooting all those people.
Another thing that likely led him to that point was also
the fact that he could have been home-sick from where he came from, and that in the case he was lonely, this only
made him more unhappy presently in his life. Thus taking more medication to likely rid the depressional
feelings/emotions he was having.
But im not very surprised of this. Two other school bound shootings had
occured months ago in other places, en U.S., and another one may not be out of question.
Since I’m in
New England , this was all over the news .
It’s a shame things like this happen , makes me think about
how safe school really is …
Mell_O_Drama: I just spoke to my friend who saw the footage from
the phone on the news. It wasn’t a vivid video- not even in the same area; it seems the kids were hiding
somewhere and you can just hear far off gun shots and screams.
I think it’s good someone videotaped it,
since hopefully it’ll affect more people and make them want to make our schools safer for us.
Of course, in every country, there’s places that are more dangerous and prone to these types
of things than other places…Is Virginia quite known for this type of thing happening in the past, or is it
usually a quieter place?