NBC receives mail from shooter

[somerfrost]

NBC received a package today in the mail that apparently was mailed by the Va Tech shooter in between his first and second killing spree. It apparently contains video, pictures and writings. NBC will apparently air some of this at 6:30 news cast. Unbelievable! NBC immediately called the FBI and turned over all originals, they were apparently allowed to make copies for what will be an exclusive...perhaps giving some insight into this insanity!

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

NBC received a package today in the mail that apparently was mailed by the Va Tech shooter in between his first and second killing spree. It apparently contains video, pictures and writings. NBC will apparently air some of this at 6:30 news cast. Unbelievable! NBC immediately called the FBI and turned over all originals, they were apparently allowed to make copies for what will be an exclusive...perhaps giving some insight into this insanity!

Truly at a loss for words at this turn of events!

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

NBC received a package today in the mail that apparently was mailed by the Va Tech shooter in between his first and second killing spree. It apparently contains video, pictures and writings. NBC will apparently air some of this at 6:30 news cast. Unbelievable! NBC immediately called the FBI and turned over all originals, they were apparently allowed to make copies for what will be an exclusive...perhaps giving some insight into this insanity!

The photo msnbc has put up is plenty chilling. Derranged!!!
Reminds me of a "suicide bomber's" parting statements.
Looks like he, like the Uni bomber, Kasinsky, also wants us to read a "manifesto".
Very chilling.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Truly at a loss for words at this turn of events!

It appears this creep brutally murdered two innocent kids and then calmly went to the campus post office to mail his package before heading off to kill 30 more. They've released one picture...him wearing an ammo vest and gloves holding a pistol in each hand...the actual weapons he used it appears.

Yeah the pic is on msnbc.com

Freedom of the Press at its worst. Tasteless SOB's can't wait until the victims are buried.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

Yeah the pic is on msnbc.com

Freedom of the Press at its worst. Tasteless SOB's can't wait until the victims are buried.

Yeah, the shooter is getting exactly what he wanted...reaching out from the grave to create even more pain!

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Yeah, the shooter is getting exactly what he wanted...reaching out from the grave to create even more pain!

Pictures and video shown at the beginning of the broadcast are pornography, particularly chilling is the picture of the killer pointing his gun directly at the camera...the last thing these poor innocent young people saw. Yet, if it was my child, I'd need to see...to try and find some way to understand that which can't be understood...a tough call here, I can only speak for myself but as agonizing as it would be, I'd want to see what my child saw...

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Wow...just watched it, what a sick person! Funny, how the police got throwin' off the wrong trail with the boyfriend of one of the victims...THIS incident should have never happen with this guy's history. I can see why at one time, WE used to "lock up" all the "nut cases". The warning signs were there...very, very sad!

Kid sounds like Napoleon Dynamite

[milliam]

These killers get way to much air time, the next nut is sitting somwhere getting ideas that if he kills 20 people he will be on CNN for a week. They should be showing the victims and their great accomplishments.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by milliam

These killers get way to much air time, the next nut is sitting somwhere getting ideas that if he kills 20 people he will be on CNN for a week. They should be showing the victims and their great accomplishments.

I agree and fortunately they have shown a lot from the victims and their families...it's been heartbreaking but at least the world knows how truly special these people were and how much was taken from us by a psychotic killer. As I said before, as terrible as these images from the killer are, I think I'd want to know...he was indeed mentally ill but also he had a mean streak as well, I agree with his one professor about that!

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

Yeah the pic is on msnbc.com

Freedom of the Press at its worst. Tasteless SOB's can't wait until the victims are buried.

I bet FOX is piiiiiiiisssssssed the guy didn't send the stuff to them... sigh. You stay classy, mainstream media... oh, right...

[Downthestretch55]

The mainstream media is playing into the need for some to find the "why" of an insane person's vile actions. The focus, in my opinion, should not be on giving immortality to a very pathetic derranged killer, but rather on the lives and the potential they held, of his victims.
Here is an opinion with which I agree:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/VATech/sto...3056168&page=1

May the families of the taken find healing. Hopefully, msnbc will take down the "story" so they are not forced to repeatedly watch such hurtful "reporting". Msnbc's actions are not considerate of the healing process.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff

Wow...just watched it, what a sick person! Funny, how the police got throwin' off the wrong trail with the boyfriend of one of the victims...THIS incident should have never happen with this guy's history. I can see why at one time, WE used to "lock up" all the "nut cases". The warning signs were there...very, very sad!

Do you know how many people you would need to lock up? Half the people on this site be gone.You should be angry at the mental health professionals that are simply useless.Simply look at this case.There is no follow up after he saw mental health professionals.Even though he had mental problems,he was able to buy guns...o.k.? Shows how f'n useless these people are.They don't even care enough to make sure the mental patients (they push out the door) aren't able to buy guns.It is one thing to be f'n useless at fixing problems,but another to totally ignore problems(and let them buy guns.)You want somebody to blame? Well the mental patient is dead.You accomplish zero by blaming him.The people most equipped to have kept this from happening are these piece of waste mental health "pros" that just cash checks without accomplishing jack sht.The #1 overpaid people in society are Psychiatrists.Any nurse could get the same poor results.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Do you know how many people you would need to lock up? Half the people on this site be gone.

Are you included in that half, Scuds? Thanks for the warning.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Are you included in that half, Scuds? Thanks for the warning.

Trust me,to the rest of the world,this(people writing back and forth for hours each week about one particular breed of animal) looks nutty.

[Mortimer]

I don't as a rule get involved in discussions like this.....and I know I'm going to be sorry I did here in this one.....buuut.

After reading about this guy a few things struck me. Now this was certainly a colossal trajedy, but people die like this every day...... we don't hear about many of them because it's usually a single murder..... anyway ...what struck me is he seems to have been an Asian growing up in this country who took a lot of abuse because of his shyness and his inability to speak good English....apparently not even close to that.....and because he looked different.

The story indicated his tape shows him acting like the main character from a Korean film where the guy gets out of jail after 15 years and aslo goes on a rampage.

So if you listened to what he said and you fill in the obvious blanks it becomes kind of clear.


Society helps create everything we deal with.


I'm just saying it's easy to blame this on a "scum bag " or a "nut case" and what have you.


Sometimes what goes around comes around and it's not always in kind.


It's too bad,but this is the way and world we live in.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Trust me,to the rest of the world,this(people writing back and forth for hours each week about one particular breed of animal) looks nutty.

Just another way of communicating in all honesty. People have different ways of communicating and this happens to be the way for most of the members on this forum. I have maybe a handful of true friends that I've known since grade school, and not a single one of them has any interest in horses or horseracing. It gets kind of difficult when my main interest is never a point of discussion because my friends can't relate. It's definitely not their fault, but I stumbled across ESPN a few years back and enjoyed the interaction with fans of the game. The rest is history. I guess I do tend to go a little overboard on the sheer number of posts... oops.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by mortimerdexterfoxworthy

I don't as a rule get involved in discussions like this.....and I know I'm going to be sorry I did here in this one.....buuut.

After reading about this guy a few things struck me. Now this was certainly a colossal trajedy, but people die like this every day...... we don't hear about many of them because it's usually a single murder..... anyway ...what struck me is he seems to have been an Asian growing up in this country who took a lot of abuse because of his shyness and his inability to speak good English....apparently not even close to that.....and because he looked different.

The story indicated his tape shows him acting like the main character from a Korean film where the guy gets out of jail after 15 years and aslo goes on a rampage.

So if you listened to what he said and you fill in the obvious blanks it becomes kind of clear.


Society helps create everything we deal with.


I'm just saying it's easy to blame this on a "scum bag " or a "nut case" and what have you.


Sometimes what goes around comes around and it's not always in kind.


It's too bad,but this is the way and world we live in.

Morty, I agree...

I do think that a normal, level headed person has better luck dealing with society in a more productive manner, though. This kid seems as if he hit rock bottom and it's how you deal with life when you're at rock bottom that actually defines you as 'crazy' or 'sane.' I don't think this kid was right in the head (obviously.) Sometimes it's easier to label someone as a scumbag than to read between the lines...

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Morty, I agree...

I do think that a normal, level headed person has better luck dealing with society in a more productive manner, though. This kid seems as if he hit rock bottom and it's how you deal with life when you're at rock bottom that actually defines you as 'crazy' or 'sane.' I don't think this kid was right in the head (obviously.) Sometimes it's easier to label someone as a scumbag than to read between the lines...

I know what you're saying.


We're all different and have different abilities to fight that end of the line retsraint.


There are those of us who commit suicide.Imagine how unbearable life becomes to actually do that....and are they crazy?

Then there are those who have to take innocents with them.That would be to me an end of the liner who has infinite built up hate.


People who do these things sometime seem preditcable...and sometimes not.

Then you have your serial killers.





Oh it's pretty messy and I don't pretend to know the answers ,but the world gets stranger every day.I think more of these things will happen as time goes on.300 million people and growing in a disparate melting pot like ours......I suppose these things are inevitable.