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Multiple shootings at Va Tech

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ABC News Blog

First Gun Bought March 13; No 'Spur of the Moment' Crime

April 17, 2007 11:12 AM
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:

Cho Seung-Hui bought his first gun, a Glock 9 mm handgun, on March 13 and his second weapon, a .22 caliber handgun, within the last week, law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com.

"This was no spur of the moment crime. He's been thinking about this since at least the time he bought the first gun," said former FBI agent Brad Garrett, an ABC News consultant.

Both guns were bought in Virginia, according to the officials.

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This guy had a greencard...while he's not a full US citizen, he is closer to being a full time immigrant than an international student.

I knew a few international students when I was in college. Quite frankly, a lot of them are rich brats. That's how they get the funding to come here to study.
 
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How about this guy...

ABC News

'I Want to Clear My Name'

April 16, 2007 11:02 PM
Richard Esposito Reports:

He is Asian, he lives in the dorm where the first shooting occurred and he recently broke up with his girlfriend. He also happens to have a Web blog packed with pictures in which he poses with firearms. On the Internet, Wayne Chiang is as good as convicted.

He has received 37,000 hits on his Web site over the past several hours, many containing death threats, he says.

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scooter1369;814105; said:
All of the info the previous post makes a difference. He's been here damn near his whole life. I was under the impresion he was here to, like so many other students, earn his degree and then return to his homeland.
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Goddammit Scooter, you can't deny Asians green cards and access to immigrate, who the hell would do my dry cleaning?
 
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martinss01;814196; said:
im thinking if parents tried raising their children for a change instead of letting a video game, or rock band, or the mtv network, or the drug dealer down the street, etc... the odds of this happening would decrease significantly.
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I don't if that is or is not the answer. (I instinctively believe that actually being a parent instead of a purse for hire is certainly the better choice).

That aside though martins, there is clearly some kind of dichotomy, some kind of cultural quirk here that makes this rare type of event happen more so in the US than anywhere else.

Hinted at earlier was that maybe it was easy access to guns. Seems like a common sense premise. Yet, many countries with pretty high gun ownership have much lower murder rates, much lower murder by firearm rates and much lower suicide by gun rates than the US.

Guncite

Not an answer to anything - just raw statistics.
 
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scooter1369;814051; said:
But these home grown caucasians are our problem. Had Son Chop stayed in Korea to go to school, he'd be their problem, not ours.
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My God Scooter, how did the Unibomber, Jim Jones, Jeff Dahlmer, the Columbine duo, the Oklahoma city group and on and on get here? At some point in time one of their relatives crossed the ocean.

We are a nation of immigrants and by and large the Asians have behaved better than the Euro- Americans.
 
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cincibuck;813786; said:
My question would then be, "Why are there so many more psychos in America than the rest of the free world combined?"
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:roll1:

define "free world."

i know it's tragic, and i don't mean to sound callous, but what's with this "greatest massacre in US history" crap? WACO? 9/11? OKC BOMBING?

sheesh.

i do have one question, though it's rhetorical: do you think he would have been able to shoot 60 people if someone had started shooting back?
 
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lvbuckeye;814273; said:
i know it's tragic, and i don't mean to sound callous, but what's with this "greatest massacre in US history" crap? WACO? 9/11? OKC BOMBING?

sheesh.

i do have one question, though it's rhetorical: do you think he would have been able to shoot 60 people if someone had started shooting back?
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Semantic issues...I believe it is the greatest mass shooting in US history, but certainly not the greatst massacre in US history.
 
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Bucks07;814280; said:
Semantic issues...I believe it is the greatest mass shooting in US history, but certainly not the greatst massacre in US history.
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Again, playing semantics, but I would guess that the greatest mass shooting in US history happened sometime between 1861 and 1865.
 
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