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Apr. 18th, 2007 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevenehrbarAccording to the Chicago Tribune, Cho Seung Hui "had shown recent signs of violent, aberrant behavior, according to an investigative source, including setting a fire in a dorm room and allegedly stalking some women."
Assuming that's true, it's easy to place blame for the shootings -- whoever didn't have him in jail awaiting trial over it. When an angry loner and stalker commits a violent felony (arson) that endangered others, he belongs in jail, bail denied, awaiting his trial. Not walking around free.
Sure, if he couldn't have gotten a gun, he probably wouldn't have killed so may people. He might only have killed his ex-girlfriend with a knife or something. (On the other hand, he might have taken inspiration from the Oklahoma City bombing and the largest school massacre in U.S. history and blown people up, maybe even killing more than he managed with the gun.) But if he was in jail or a secure mental institution, where an unbalanced arsonist belongs, it wouldn't have mattered what a free man could get his hands on.
Again, assuming the Chicago Tribune and its anonymous source are correct.
Assuming that's true, it's easy to place blame for the shootings -- whoever didn't have him in jail awaiting trial over it. When an angry loner and stalker commits a violent felony (arson) that endangered others, he belongs in jail, bail denied, awaiting his trial. Not walking around free.
Sure, if he couldn't have gotten a gun, he probably wouldn't have killed so may people. He might only have killed his ex-girlfriend with a knife or something. (On the other hand, he might have taken inspiration from the Oklahoma City bombing and the largest school massacre in U.S. history and blown people up, maybe even killing more than he managed with the gun.) But if he was in jail or a secure mental institution, where an unbalanced arsonist belongs, it wouldn't have mattered what a free man could get his hands on.
Again, assuming the Chicago Tribune and its anonymous source are correct.
