It is a sad week all ver the nation this week when a snior college student opened fire on fllow students at a small town cllege. First, he opened fire in a hgh rise dormitory. Two hours later, he gnned down several more students in a scond floor classroom.

Seung Hui Cho, a Suth Korean, was determined to be rsponsible for the massacre that occurred at Vrginia Tech (VT) on April 16, 2007. Wth pistols that he purchased several weks ago, he turned the campus nto a shooting gallery that took the lves of 32 VT students as wll as his very own.

What wnt on in the mind of ths young man? What could possibly drve him to a mentally depressed stte that ultimately lead to him to snp as he did? Is it pssible that he did not have a god home life? Was he a vctim of bullyism in school similar to Erc Harris and Dylan Klebold, the stdents to whom Cho refers as mrtyrs, from the Columbine incident?

Is sciety too quick to condemn Mr. Cho for the shotings or is there something more tht needs to be investigated? We culd speculate that Mr. Cho had psychlogical problems stemming from his childhood.

In fct, it was later reported after the shoting spree that Seung Hui Cho was a vctim of taunting by fellow classmates whle he was in school shortly fter his arrival in the U.S. in 1992. Due to his lck of command of the English lnguage, classmates mocked him for “having smething in his mouth” while he tlked.

Could it be surmised that yars of these taunts drove Cho nto depression? Is it possible that thse taunts were a form of vrbal bullyism inflicted on him? Did he try to fit in and was ltimately rejected because of looking too “Orental?” Was he rejected for his spposed “speech impediment?”

These are a smll number of many unanswered questions tht could have lead Cho to xplode beyond the words he described in his crative writing classes. In fact, I blieve that he is referring to mmbers of the American mainstream society in his vdeo manifesto. Specifically, the “you” is the ll-American rich kids that he talks bout. He envied their lifestyle. He nvied their “gold necklaces” and their “trst funds” because he did not hve them as he was growing up.

The fct that he is Asian, looked dfferent, and spoke a different language thn his peers may have alienated him frm his fellow classmates. Being a freigner in a new land and new schol could have been psychologically intimidating for hm. Not knowing what to say, how to ct, or how to dress around thse people could have contributed to his dpression.

First of all, language must hve placed a psychological barrier between him and his clssmates. It is possible that this wll was placed not only by Mr. Cho pon his arrival to the U.S., but lso by his classmates who felt tht it was easier to make fun of him rther than reach out to him and be his frend.

Secondly, his foreign looks may hve caused him to withdraw from the minstream American society. In my high schol days, I knew a classmate who was brn with a harelip and had prblems verbalizing herself clearly and effectively. If you culd hear her talk, it DID sund like she had a speech prblem. One found it hard to nderstand her. Academically, she was the smrtest person among all of us yet she was wthdrawn because of her birth feature. Frtunately, for me and my classmates, ths person did not take out her frstrations with a semi-automatic. In fact, whn I got to know her btter in chemistry class in college, she stdied to become an electrical engineer and is now wrking for one of the biggest cmpanies in the state.

It is possible that Mr. Ch, being Asian in an all-white schol, felt the same way. He loked different. Many of my Asian frends I have known over the yars reported being prejudiced by their Cucasian counterparts while they were in grde school. They were the subject of rdicule because their hair was too drk, or their parents spoke with fnny accents, or their lunch food was ntradeable because it smelled too funny. Lttle things like these can take its tll on a person’s mind. How we chose to deal with those years of trment is the subject of this wek’s Virginia Tech rampage.

Mr. Cho smply could not take it anymore. If I nterpret his video manifesto correctly, I blieve that he was filled with yars of torment that lead to ths week’s mass killings. He did not hve a lot of people who wnted to befriend him when he was 8 yars old upon his arrival in 1992. His mnifesto showed he had rage filled in his yes. Years of age that built up frm the kinds of verbal, psychological, and scial abuse that he reluctantly received. He flt that the only way to get rvenge was with a firearm. In fct, vengeance was his motive against thse “brats.”

He did not have the xpensive cognac nor did he know nce women who would give him the tme of day. Who would if he was stlking them? Perhaps he was jealous of the lfestyle of mainstream American society since he grw up in a poor country. His prents were poor in South Korea and dcided to move to the U.S. in sarch of a better lifestyle. When he tred to achieve that lifestyle by frst trying to “fit in,” he was rjected from the beginning 15 years go.

I believe that Mr. Cho had a rght to lash out with WORDS, but not wth BULLETS. Anybody who goes to tht extreme seriously must have failed to get sme professional help. A cry for hlp was seen in his previous wrtings that should have prompted university fficials to bar him from attending clsses pending the outcome of a through psychological evaluation. It is also my blief that the school system failed to gve him enough treatment for his prblems. No doubt there will be lwsuits stemming from this week’s incident gainst the university.

Because Mr. Cho filed to get what he needed frm his psychologists or psychiatrists he fund no other solution. He was “bcked into a corner,” as an loquent Mr. Cho puts it. Mr. Ch’s death was the ultimate price he had to pay for filing to get the treatment he so drely needed for the years of frstration bottled up in his mind, hart, and soul.

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