Comments on: Mind Of The Assassin

Scott Pelley On How The Secret Service Studies The Minds Of Assassins

[jameskbachma]

Require classroom doors to be able to be locked from the inside. Also, have ropes available for escaping from upper-story windows. Finally, suggest that students carry non-lethal weapons. They are usually legal.

[vtalum87]

One of the big reasons I chose Va Tech was due to it's unpretentiousness and nice atmosphere. I did not see one Mercedes or anything close to resembling cognac in my four years there. In reviewing all of the information on the shooting by Cho to date, I have seen plenty of evidence of students and faculty attempting to reach out to a deeply troubled person. It seems clear with the information we have, that Cho retreated to silence and islolation when help was attempted and he was on the radar screen in Fall 2005...and since that time in the last year he plotted and was silent. Although some help can be gleaned from your story, I find it not helpful in this case and somewhat disrespectful to the University. Va Tech experienced this tremendous tragedy from someone who was going to wreak this havoc wherever he went. Now, salt is poured into the wound with the insinuation that the University or fellow students are also responsible.

Forever a Hokie and proud former resident of Blacksburg.

[alphaa10-2009]

booyaw_77 said, "Why does misery attract such bad company? Huh? Why can't people be allowed to forget? Huh? There's nothing anybody coulda ever done about this. Nothing. No matter what they say. No matter what the headline. This is a free country, and in a free country, this is how it works... There's just tragedy..."
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Some readers will be tempted to ask, "Huh?" after reading your post. I suggest you find somebody who understands, and really can help. Don't put it off. You CAN choose how all this turns out.

[rachelbrasso]

I am very disappointed in this story. Your guests were insinuating that once again Virginia Tech is responsible for what happened and/or that others knew. Cho was a very troubled boy who stopped speaking in high school as others teased him because of his Korean accent. In college, Virginia Tech students and professors reached out to him. They all tried to get him help, including his former roommate who contacted the authorities after Cho%u2019s suicide threat. After that incident with the authorities and the justice system, Cho realized that he had to remain silent. He didn%u2019t have friends nor did he speak, how was anyone supposed to know of his plans? If he did tell someone, what was going to be done with the current state of the mental health system? The problem is deeper than whether he told someone or who sold him the gun, rather there are multiple issues that need to be addressed. The first stop is do not blame Virginia Tech as the university is just as much a victim as the 32 killed and Cho himself.

[cfin5]

karenburns2, You hit the nail on the head! AD drugs should have been banned along time ago. I heard that some of them do the same thing to you as cocaine, just without the high. These guys could have been on this garbage since they were kids! I'm waiting to see the lawsuits start regarding these drugs.

[fascistusa]

I love the Anti-Gun nuts. Take away Guns and crime will magically disappear. Just wave that little wand, Merlin.

The biggest assassins ARE the Government employees: JFK, MLK, BFK, Malcolm X, John Lennon, Timothy McVeigh, Ruby Ridge, Waco, V Tech (you better believe The Government did V Tech), ect.

Our Country has changed already. We're headed for Civil War. The days of Lone Assassins being the few unbrainwashed people living outside the Mainstream Corporate TV/Radio/Magazine Brainwashing Culture are done.

AMERICA HAS AWOKEN.

[agnim]

"The ones (assassins)to study are those who are on the public payroll who do authorize and pay for such services.
Posted by tucanofulano at 09:36 PM : Apr 22, 2007"

Very good point!

The violent and destructive examples of the government assassins are GREATLY responsible for ordinary citizens see no reason to not play assassins themselves. The violent killers in the government are the 'teachers' the ordinary/borderline insane citizens emulate.

[tucano2]

Typically the government agencies secure the services of freelance assasins when such services are thought to be needed. But they are only private businessmen and women. The ones to study are those who are on the public payroll who do authorize and pay for such services.

[lawandorder6]

No gun, no one dies. Get the guns.

[dphaffner]

WHO are African people Agnim? You mean black folk ?

[agnim]

These murderers/assassins/psychopaths are truly criminally insane and DEEPLY VIOLENT creatures.
The excuses given for their rampage are merely cover of the insanity.

No group in America has been as disrespected as the African people; yet we don't see these mass murders in retaliation by African Americans.

If merely being disrespected/neglected was reason to go on a rampage, African Americans should be on a rampage EVERY SECOND in America! LOL

[booyaw_77]

There's only one thing that coulda been done. And you know it! Yet nobody wants to talk about it. They coulda stopped treating him like de ********** plague. And got to know him better. Dey coulda got off der ********** high horses, and humored him a little.. And get in on his act.. doing a little friendly 007. I mean, the guy had a room mate! Fer christ's sakes.. How de hell do you live with somebody knowing less than you guys do about him? Huh? HOW?!

Just shut de ********** up. De lott of yaz..

[booyaw_77]

Why does misery attract such bad company? Huh? Why can't people be allowed to forget? Huh? There's nothing anybody coulda ever done about this. Nothing. No matter what they say. No matter what the headline. This is a free country, and in a free country, this is how it works. And there's no magic formula. There's no "special treatment". There's just tragedy. And nobody will let those people forget it. Screw Virginia State.. I gotta story. Unbelievable..

[booyaw_77]

"You knew." I suppose you knew 9/11 too.. eh? You know everything. You knew as much as CNN does. As much FOXnews does. That this thing should have been seen 1,000 miles away! Like everything.. Yet yer never there when they need ya. Are ya..

Here's a poem fer yaz: "The less I talk the more people believe me. The more I say I told yaz so, the more I'm a doofus." Doesn't rhyme but, who says ya gotta rhyme to sound good?

[hypnotoad72]

Well, according the media of recent, somebody who is:

* depressed
* a loner
* psychotic
* an autistic (Asperger's Syndrome)
* bullied as a kid

and/or

* not eating the right foods

Is going to be branded as a potential mass killer.

Silly, isn't it?

[karenburns2]

You forgot a very important link between all the school shootings. All of these children were prescribed by doctors anti-depressants and other medications. Google the video "Prescription for Disaster" After Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore even admitted that both those boys were on prescription drugs. Is CBS allowed to report on this, even though you advertise for drug companies? I think that Americans need to be made aware of this common thread. When a doctor or teacher suggest to parents that their kids can concentrate more, but they can become suicidal or even killers I think this can make decision making alittle harder. You are a very good news show it would be nice to see you report on this.