Asian kid goes ballistic kills 33 at Virginia Tech

[Aunty]

Well I'm sure you've all heard the news. Here's a link to some eyewitness accounts of this morning's shootings in Virginia. They report the gunman was Asian and wearing a boy scout uniform. Can we all say nutjob?

Oriental or Indian??

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/sto ... d=10434646

"Goes ballistic"? What an unfortunate choice of words. The general reaction is, naturally, "only in America"

[Aunty]

Oriental - Mainland Chinese.

That will no doubt raise some hackles, and then questions about the rights of foreign students while studying in the US, (e.g., the Americans have a constitutional right to buy guns in the US, but foreigners?) then on to security, mental health, and attitudinal checks made of foreign students before and during their time of study, and of course, the safety of America's colleges and universities.

Beryl, do try to keep up with contemporary uses of language, would you?

Yep what a mess. Of course the gun laws or lack of, will be completely ignored because of the little problem of an election coming up, plus Americas hilly-billy amendments. Democrats, they have a spine like "jello", thats American for confiture Beryl. Sadly they are the only alternative to the republicans. Oh well as long as they are also shooting each other to death.

The Chinese and other evil foreigners will take the brunt of it this time, no doubt.

Oriental - Mainland Chinese.

Wrong, dear. He was from South Korea.

Police have named a student who shot dead at least 30 people at a US university as Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old from South Korea.

He was studying English and had been living on the university campus. He killed himself after the rampage.

Police said a gun found at the scene was also used at an earlier shooting in which two people were killed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6563565.stm

[Aunty]

Yes I see that. Last night they were reporting he was from mainland China. Reading about him now he was a total whack-job psycho, and the college had plenty of evidence for it. I can see the lawyers gathering for the kill - no pun intended.

as evidence, I offer the members of this board....I think.

Seung Hui Cho was taking a writing class, his poems & other writings were violent (Example: a play ended with a man killing a thirteen-year-old boy.), "Therefore, all writers of violent material should be locked up?" or something to that affect was said by whomever she went to (Police) to report her misgivings: she...Ta-da!... "feared for her life," she...roll `dem cameras...now says. He left an eight-page (Suicide?) rant-letter mentioning, amongst other things; pedophilia. (Hmmm?)
Police have come under fire for not answering all reporters questions, no matter how asinine or how many times the were told the info was not available, and for not locking down the entire campus, effectively making 26,000 people setting ducks--And for notifying the students, etc, via e-mail..."Who-the-hell reads e-mail that early in the morning?" nevertheless, "It stopped the system:" couldn't be accessed. (I'm sure terrorist organizations are quaking to see what force they are up against.) There has been almost constant tv reportage...Not much to report but almost constant coverage--And Bush had a photo op\opportunity to make like an hillbilly evangelist, Amazing Grace\Amassing Gas: the only hymn--Thanks to the movie\television industry--known to Americans was drug out...Again..."Old Cougar," Katie Couric had an opportunity to prettily cross her legs on camera, the gun people--Pro & con--are out ranting in force, every 'whack-job' knows Virginia is the whack-job-friendliest, quickest, easiest place in America to shop till you drop (someone) for a glock (And 50 bullets--@ $687), Anna Nicole, Danilynn, Don Imus & "Nappy-headed Ho's" were momentarily knocked off the front page, (Someone...On a blog?... reportedly said the murderer misunderstood: Thought Imus had said, "Nappy headed Cho.)" and it really pissed him off--And--My favorite (Priceless) moment: a mother told some dumb-ass reporter she thought everyone could use a good hug: best puke I've had all week!
Meanwhile; little Heather Mills (Go, Heather!) survived another week on, Dancing With the Stars ("Stars" ?) by out-maneuvering a 6'-4" football player and LaQuicha sang, Jesus Take the Wheel on American Idle. (sic)
See what fun you miss.

...Not much to report but almost constant coverage

Congress decided to postpone its hearings into the deeds of Attorney-General Gonzales "out of respect for the dead". This is actually "out of respect for the newspaper headlines" because they know this will be a 24- to 48-hour wonder that will crowd out their own headline-making event. It's the reverse of that British politician who remarked on 7/11 2001 "This would be a good day for us to publish any bad news"

What could Cho Seung-hui have been thinking? Hokie? Surely there is an easier way to get out of boring tutorials?