Just curious if there was any further information on the shooter's mental illness. I read something suggesting he was suffering from an illness but what was the illness. has anyone said yet?
Answer:
Many people have said that he was a paranoid schizophrenic. However, not experiencing pychosis at the time of the shooting.
There should be no place in society for those with mental illness. You see the results of trying to coddle them: 32 dead.
The shooter was one of those idiots who thinks all his problems are caused by other people and blames everyone else. A real wack job. That's all you need to know.
"It came after university police said that Cho had been accused of stalking women students and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in 2005 because of worries he was suicidal. A Virginia court order issued at the time declared him "mentally ill" and said he presented "an imminent danger to self or others," ABC News reported."
""Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats? Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs? Your trust fund wasn't enough? ... Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs? You had everything.""
And there was this:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/20...
Not really answering your question just wanted to say to the first person that answered to get a grip. you clearly don't have a clue about mental health illnesses and don't put us all in the same box. if you had your way 3/4 of the world would be locked away. I wounder what an evaluation would make of you as its certainly not normal to say 3/4 of the world should be locked away.
That's just the media taking something out of someone's record and sensationalizing it. There is a HUGE difference in being "suicidal" and being "homicidal."
They are just looking for that special angle to put their own twist on the story.
There's no denying he was delusional. Conclusively deciding to take as many people with him as he could, because he felt victimized or tormented or whatever his excuse was.
He knew that he would become famous, even posthumously, and therefore receive his 15 minutes of fame. He got lucky and broke the record. NOW, his name will live on forever as the worst mass shooter in US history. At least until some copy-cat who sees all the attention Cho got, and tries to break THAT record. There are far too many people desperate for attention out there, and the media feeds them this need for fame.
Why don't these attention seeking whackos ever shoot up the places that NEED to be cleansed?? Like the NBC studios? Or Al Sharpton's radio show?
A mass shooting on the Mexican border would draw unprecedented media attention to the illegal immigrant problem... they would have to shut down the border!!
But NO, it's always some douche walking into an school full of kids, or a restaurant.
Just worry about being nicer to people. All the time, especially new kids in school. And you losers who think the in-crowd rich kids are cool enough to sucked-up to by your picking on shy kids? Lookout, you. -They'll get you bone-yard dead along with them, baby. Its becoming fashionable lately. Snotty kids are soon-to-be an endangered species.
There is inadequate information so far. Certainly it is possible he could have had a mental disorder, but his actions could be fully explained by being evil, or by being a normal person on drugs.
In any case, it is exceptionally rare for people with mental disorders to commit violent crimes directly due to the symptoms from their disorder. In the vast majority of cases, other factors are more important, such as being evil, killing for drugs, marital abuse, etc, etc, etc.
To put it bluntly, you are far less likely to be killed by someone because of their mental disorder than you are to be killed by anyone else.
The comment that I have here is only that someone dropped the ball if I as a mental health professional had a client who was presenting with the type of antisocial behavior this man was my first a foremost priority would be to get him out of the public and get him the help he needed where were the counselors at this school when a professor tells you other students are afraid to be in class with him and that he is being taught on a one on one basis because of it the red flags should have went up every where yes I know it is hard to have some one declared incompetent but it can be done if they present a danger to themselves or others in this young mans case I doubt many judges would have had a problem ordering him to treatment the country on a whole must understand this could have been avoided if the proper actions had been taken we need to look at how underfunded our mental health system is and how we can fix it and make sure that school counselors are also mental health counselors and are empowered to take action to prevent things like this from taking place
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