I Just Wanna Say This Is Exactly How I Feel Abt Him, And U Articulated It So Well. I Will Always Grieve

i just wanna say this is exactly how i feel abt him, and u articulated it so well. i will always grieve for the life seunghui could have had if it wasn't for the people around him who misconstrued every bit of his personality. even though his parents got him the help he needed they eventually gave up on him and decided to "let him be" as he grew up (said by his mother). poor poor cho it didn't help that the professors at VT were undermining him bc of his withdrawn nature to the point where they constantly questioned his skills and capabilities as a student and labeled him manipulative all because he was struggling to talk and interact with people. this man was misunderstood until his last breath, and that never changed even after his death.

seunghui was failed by everyone around him, I do not view him as evil or disturbed - I don’t believe that and I hate that people just resort to labelling him as some sort of monster because of what he did. I’ve talked before about how I’m tired of people treating killers like spawned fictional characters (in many different forms) and this is another example of that frustration.

I talked last night about how he was failed creatively but it’s more important to acknowledge that he was failed in support of his health. I will never understand why laws prevent the sharing of information for a student’s disabilities or their need for some kind of extra assistance. as an autistic person myself, I know that the last thing a young person has the ability to do in an anxious school setting is advocate for themselves over and over again. I’m not surprised seunghui didn’t tell teachers about his selective mutism diagnosis, plus he was already being treated as an anomaly because of his work…why would he create more attention for himself? why would he want to try and explain things if he felt that the people around him didn’t care?

“fairfax school officials would not speak about cho directly, citing privacy laws. they said, however, that a team of psychologists had studied selective mutism in detail, worked with several children and made ‘significant progress’ with the students.” the fact that this information is literally withheld when a student moves forward in their education is baffling and definitely the biggest contributor to the decline in his mental health. he was shoved into a completely new environment, one that wasn’t fit for him, and was expected to make sure he took charge of his situation after not having to do so before. that would send anyone into a state of intense isolation.

he was taunted for staying silent and his teachers would be angered by his lack of responses: no, there was no way in hell he was going to voluntarily call for the assistance he needed. it causes a certain type of frustration within me reading the emails teachers sent to each other about him. to me, some of them talked about the possibility of autism like it was the reason why they felt ‘uneasy’ with him - like if they have a label they can maybe ignore him, like a label is an excuse and not simply a path for the right support. there’s one person who said he was most likely being “intentionally difficult” which really irked me…they already saw he was suffering with something but, for some reason, still expected him to muster up some kind of power to change his behaviour and responses on his own.

I feel for seunghui and the pressure that he was under those four years of university; even the previous years of his life were difficult anyway. I wish the circumstances were different for him so that he could maybe lead a fulfilling life instead of seeing the only way out being hurting himself and those around him. I wish peace for the victims but also peace for him.

9mm Hi-Point 955 Carbine, one of the guns Eric Harris used in the Columbine massacre.

Was Cho’s massacre a homage to Oldboy?

— ‘Oldboy’, a South Korean movie directed by Park Chanwook which follows the story of a man named Oh Daesu who mysteriously gets kidnapped and confined in a cell-like hotel room. After 15 years of imprisonment, he finally gets released and goes on a bloody rampage and seeks vengeance against his captors.

Among the photos and videos mailed by Cho to NBC, there’s one photo of him with a chilling grin on his face, brandishing a hammer which strikingly resembles a scene from the movie ‘Old Boy’, where the protagonist is seen holding up a hammer right when he is about to engage in a physical altercation with a group of people. This conspiracy of Cho supposedly paying homage to the famous violence packed scene from the movie was made by Professor Paul Harris of Virginia tech who informed the authorities about it. However during the investigation it was simply ruled out as a speculation due to a lack of concrete evidence.

To further debunk the theory, Cho never used a hammer during the shooting besides his two hand guns.

Kimveer Gill and his Beretta Cx4 Storm he used during the shooting

Some images of Kimveer Gill's VampireFreaks profile, where he went under the username "Fatality666"

The parts where it has Eric Draven from The Crow in the background is what his profile looked like in May of 2006, and the ones with Cradle Of Filth is what it looked like at the time of the shooting.

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