Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student (WARNING- May Cause Anger)

Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student - Cho Seung-Hui, who killed 32 people and himself yesterday, had caused deep concern among some of his teachers at Virginia Tech. [NYTimes]
What is our generation going to do?
16- and I've already seen terrorist attacks, wars and now the largest civilian massacre in the history of the nation. I'm not complaining, this is an amazing time to live in- but I still can't help but fear the downward decline showing in statistics and actions. Middle class America is now the suburbs of the fifties gone to hell: meth labs and shootings, rapes and abuse.
Our schools are now at terror alert... well, at least most school are.
My school didn't even take a moment this morning to recognize the 31 dead and 29 wounded at Virginia. I didn't even know until 2:00pm yesterday. We'll recognize the 1,000 soldier killed in Iraq with a candle light vigil... but we won't take a thirty second silence to see what's happening in our own country?
The people that died weren't service men and women, they didn't sign up to go to Virginia Tech to die. They went there to live- and live well. Just because we're in Vermont it doesn't matter? Just because we're hundreds of miles away it doesn't get the recognition here that it does in Virginia?
Are we going to take this shooting and make it another Columbine? Turn it into mass hysteria over loner South Koreans like we did with young men in camo?
We need to learn from this, to recognize everything that has happened. Not laugh it off like I've been seeing people do.
31 are dead. 31 professors, students, parents, sisters, brothers... and that 31 includes the killer himself. They say he was a stalker and a bad man- how can we know? How can we really know? They said he had been treated for depression, how do we know that it was the depression that drove him to it? That it just made him snap? Sure, what he did was wrong. But can we be so quick to point the finger and say "Devil"?
How do we know we don't really have another case of bullying- another case of abuse or mental illness?
I know some people who read this would think: "She's sympathizing with a murderer! She's taking the side of a cold blooded killer!" I do not stand behind the actions, I merely wonder what caused this 27 year-old man to break and point a gun at a fellow human being.
This rant will make people angry.
It will make people angry at me, at others and maybe even at themselves.
But that's what I want- to make you FEEL the anger I feel.
And Now I'm Going To Sleep.
-Zeal
8:56PM
April 17, 2007.