I really cannot comprehend what kind of mental state you have to be in to decide to do such a thing. And really, there isn't much I can say about it. Its awful, period.

The media usually takes the entire ordeal so much further than it should be allowed to go. Even reading about it its morbid. Usually you read about how they were bullied, or how something made them snap, or some sort of excuse that humanizes them.

But this time, I'm not seeing it.

I am reading a lot of "shooter was a South Korean student" headlines. I actually read one article where it said "...student Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old South Korean national and resident alien." (source).

There are lot of these headings.

The fact that a shooting happened, again, makes me really sad; that the media is blaming the entire incident on the fact that he was not a US citizen, makes me angry.

Funny thing though, he was a US resident, and he had been in the US for 14 years (source) , he actually had legal right to buy that gun.

But no, lets blame it on the 'resident alien', and prejudice people from South Korea. Same thing happened in 9/11 with people from the middle east right?

Lets not look at the deeper issue here, that the kid was troubled, and that with those troubles, he was allowed to walk in a store, and buy a gun.

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