I agree with Salina. Let us all just pray for the victims and their families. There is no point trying to point a finger at who's fault it is. So stop blaming the school, the police, Cho's family or anyone else. It is not going to bring back the ones that died or erase this tragic event.

First, I want to say how sorry I am for all that has happened at VA Tech and my sympathy goes out to the parents of all those innocent victims. Next I wish to address this to anyone who want to blame Cho's Parents. As a parent, are you to blame for every wrong doing your child commits after age 18? Be real! I am a parent and I do the very best I can to make sure my children know the difference between what is right and honorable and what is not. After they become responsible adults, it is out of my hands. That is as it should be. Are your parents responsible for all the decisions you make? Do they review every purchase you make to check for appropriateness? Do you discuss every aspect of your daily life with them? I don't think so as it is none of their concern. As adults, we live our own lives individually and apart from our parents. It's a real shame Cho didn't receive the help he needed be it by his choice or by negligence. But to blame his parents or the Asian community is just ignorant. I lived in South Korea for two years. It was a wonderful time and the people were very warm and welcoming. This is not typical behavior for their culture. This was a horrible crime committed by a troubled individual acting on his own. He is the only one responsible for what he did. Blame him and no one else. Pray for those recovering and for the families of those who were murdered. May God bless us all.

I too argee, parents can only do so much... I think that everyone should be more concerned about the ppl that lost someone now and how the gunmans family probably feels..Pointing Fingers gets you no where!

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone!

"The Day After"

I like millions of the world was glued to any news yesterday whether it be by television,simulcast,via the internet whatever the connection for any information on such a horriffic act of violence on so many innocent human beings at Virginia Tech University.

This violent oblivious act was not of God but indeed an act of Satan in which completely took over a willing soul.Remember,God gives us all free will.This young soul chose to take the wrong path.Many students and faculty were taken from us on this dark day.We will forever be saddened by this act and everyone before it,however,we will never forget the love in which each person shared for his are her fellow student/friend/sister/brother/cousin/niece/nefew/uncle/aunt/neighbor/mother&father.

WE "MUST REMEMBER" VIOLENCE ACTS UPON MORE VIOLENCE.

4/16/07

My prayers are with all of you. You have endured more than anyone should have to but God will keep you strong. Take the time you need to deal with this and to take care of your selves. I pray for the school administrators and law enforcement officials who have had to deal with this tragedy as well. God Bless All of You.

Why must blame be placed? It won't change the tragic and painful outcome, just compound it. As an adult this young man had certain rights that neither his parents or the VT faculty could take from him. His English teacher had referred him to counseling that's all that she could do. If he was living within the norms of society there was nothing anyone could do.
The blame game will not heal anyone. Sometimes things happen, it is no ones fault, they just do. Use the energy of blaming to send out prayers and positive wishes for the families of all the victims, that the healing starts now and that the victims are remembered for the good they did and not how they died.

I am as far as Barbados,and heard the terrifying news,my family's prays go out to all victims including the cho family because seriously put yourself in their shoes,they must be hurting for the families whom have lost and I am sure they are filled with many emotions most of all anger for what their son has done,this is something they will live with for the rest of their lives as well as the families who lost.All i can say is DRAW closer to God and he will bring you through,believe me he will.There will be many questions and few if any correct answers,but draw closer to God.
Lots of Love
Sabrina

i think the parents should not be at fault. I think that as one comment above said; they are not just suffering with his lost; the little that has been said about them has not been negative. There is prove he purchased one of the guns him self. It’s not like he took it from his parents or they found any thing negative with the parents. I'm sure the media would have been all over that a long time ago. I think we should have his parents in our prayers as well as family and friends of the victim, because they are a victim as well. And in some way I think they are having it worst than some. These humans not only lost their son, but to wonder what they did wrong, trying to find any clues, any signs, can you imagine how many questions this family have. The pain of what their son have done and fear he has giving the whole world. I'm not sure they are not looking at it as there son has become famous. I'm sure there must be a lot of pain. Their sons have just put them in a separate world with no fresh air, and there is nothing they can do about it.

i very sadden about what happened to the young women and men who got killed or wounded and for the familys of the victim , i have a daughter whom goes to college and i as a parents worry and pray nothing like this happen again after watching it on cnn and seeing the people being brung out i started calling my daughter every five to ten minutes just to hear her voice and i am so sorry for the family prayer do work and right now that is all we can do is pray and maybe ask the question why ? and even if we get the answer the pain will be forever lasting ,

The gunman was an adult and utimately is responsible for his own behavior. You can only offer help to someone and if they choose not to accept what can you do. As for the gun control issue if someone wants to get a gun bad enough they can get it. I think that maybe if someone on campus would have had a gun then maybe he could have been stopped sooner. I would say 99% of gun owners are responsible. I don't see how the college could have notified all of the students of what was going on. With the amount of students that commute to VT most would have been in transit. It's easy to point fingers. God Bless those that died and I hope the injured heal quickily.

I attend the University of Houston In Houston Texas. When I heard about what happened at Virginia Tech. I just wished I could do something for the people who are suffering with the lose of loved ones. I just want everyone to know that we are all praying for you!

My heartfelt condolences and prayers are with all the families and friends of the victims of these terrible incidents and to the family of the gunman. They are all now enduring such grief that only time will heal. All the previous comments about the family of Cho placing blame on them are absolutely loathsome. Did we blame Timothy McVeigh's family? Did we blame Lee Harvey Oswald's family? There is not much that can be done to prevent such a horrendous crime. There are psychopaths everywhere and until they commit a crime, they will continue to walk among us.

God bless all those who are having to endure the sorrow and loss now, and may we all grow to more completely understand that we must live together and work toward peace among all mankind.

i would like to express the concern and sorrow i have for all of the victims and their family and friends. i don't know much about the shooter but after reading his two plays, i have come to wonder if he was molested by a priest or even a member of his family. in both plays, he describes wanting to kill the men who are molesting/raping him. this is very disturbing. i also wonder if he was angry because he didn't come from a privileged family. these are by no means an excuse but combined with his mental illness must've pushed him over the edge. it is very sad indeed that we are never sure of how safe we are, even from our own son, brother, friend, classmate, pupil, etc.

I think that if the killer was mentally disturbed then perhaps we should express pity for him. I don't mean to underscore that what he did was not horrendoues. But if we understand people better, we can see that maybe we should try to treat others with compassion. Understanding someone however does not mean excusing his/her actions.

My prayers go out to the ones that lost loved ones, the ones that almost lost loved ones, Cho's family, and all of us because we are all affected by this tragedy in one way or another.
It saddens me to see people pointing fingers at the parents, law makers, school officials but what we fail to realize is the fact that this isn't a problem with parenting or gun control. Blaming others won't resolve the current situation or even a future one. Instead if we could come together and show even a little affection/care/persistance to those that are labeled "weird" by society standards, wouldn't that have a higher probabilty of preventing future tragedy like this one than simply pointing fingers?

I agree with Christine's comments 100%.

No one can know what made the gunman do what he did. What we do know is that he acted alone. As a former college student, I know from experience that help is out there if you need it. However, the individual must be willing to take that step.

As we grieve for the families of the victims, I hope that we can follow the example of the Amish who lost their little girls in another senseless act of violence. In the midst of their pain, the asked that we pray for the family of the gunman as well. I am praying for the Cho family as well as for the families of the innocent victims. I am also praying that the Korean community is not victimized due to the act of a disturbed individual.

I have a grave concern. The media is making this into a contest. Just review some of the headlines: "Most killed", "Worst Ever", etc. Some sick jerk is now thinking "I can do better than 32" Only the victoms and survivors should have any media coverage. We do ourselves great harm by elevating this monster to such international status. We must focus on the good people, good deeds and positive acts and not degrade ourselves by disceting a sub-human monster in the national media.

For the Hokies

Death has revealed its ugly face again,
Leaving you with nothing but pain.
No answer can satisfy
That which makes you cry.

Just yesterday you saw her dancing;
Just yesterday you fought with him;
Just yesterday you taught them;
Just yesterday she smiled at you;

If only you knew just yesterday
What you know today,
That yesterday would be their last
That death had arms so vast.

They said he was a loner
If we had reached out sooner
Would yesterday not matter?
Could today have been better?

To the victims, we say rest in peace
To the parents and siblings, we say take heart
To the students, we say finish hard
To society, we say act, ACT NOW!

To the Media:

Please stop giving so much coverage to this killer. You're evidently giving him exactly what he wanted. Notoriety for a day. Now he's getting it for more than a day and I fear more days to come. The focus right now should be on the students who became victims,their professors, their families, the students and faculty at Virginia Tech, police, who so bravely try to keep us all safe every day, etc. They need all the prayers we can all send their way. Let's just focus on them, okay everyone????

the grief we all feel is amplified by the fact that we can't change what happened nor can we ever prevent it from happening again. as a mother of an 18 yr old daughter going off to college in a few short months, i'm scared to death. however, i know in my heart that we really have no control over so many things that come into our lives uninvited. what i do know is that my daughter is in God's hands alone. we keep wondering why things like this happen, but yet our elected officials keep moving further & further away from the fact that our counrty was founded as a Christian nation, yet they keep trying to take God and any form of faith out of our society because we might offend someone by saying a prayer. maybe if our children were taught that there are laws in place which were put there by a greater power than man, we'd be living in a more peaceful place. i don't care what your religious affiliation is, so long as you believe in something good. remember that when our country was founded most of the citizens owned guns, however they had a deep faith and trust and respect for their Lord and they didn't go around shooting people for no particular reason. they knew right from wrong based on principles that were given to us in the Bible. pick it up sometime and all of the answers you're looking for and all of the answers our nation needs are in that book. govern yourself, be accountable, follow the Word and we'll all be safer & happier and alot less scared of what we can't control. we've become way too tolerant of bad behavior under the pretense that it's someones "right" to act in such bad way. parents, raise your children & keep them close in your heart. my prayers are with all of the families & friends who lost loved ones. i pray for the staff at VT. also for the police and emergency responders who had to encounter such horror.

prayers to the families and friends. rest in peace young people. a world is hurt by this. we will never forget any of you. we will never be the same.

we can all offer our opinions until we are blue in the face, but i promise you one thing- it will not change a thing. what happened at virginia tech was the product of intolerable sadness, in every aspect. please stop blaming his parents. they could be angels or criminals, and either way- cho was an adult. an educated young, family man. a human being. the fact that he was mentally ill is sad. but no mental illness constitutes for such disgusting error. as any human being, cho had free will- and he apparently decided to take his free will in a direction that is totally unaccpetable in every aspect. whether he has supportive or terrible parents, a healthy head or mental illness- cho took his anger out on innocent victims- and nothing is fair about this. i can't bear to hear another person place blame on anyone other than cho himself.
to all of the victims and their families as well- i am so sorry for your loss. the entire world is here to support you in whatever you may ever need.

As a parent of three sons who have Asperger's Syndrome, and one who is also bipolar, I have struggled for years with the issues presented in the letters already posted. My sons were born in the 80's, before such a thing was even know about,so we heard a lot from teachers and the community that my husband and I were the problem and that if we were better parents the boys would not be the way they were (which was just not like everyone else, not necessarly bad). One big problem that I and other parents of children and young adults with mental problems face is finding a psyc doctor for them to see, especially if you live in a rural state like we do. Our middle sons psychiatrist told us if we had stayed in California they would have been diagnosed much sooner. As it was, he was not diagnosed until 10th grade. That made his brother a senior in high school, and the younger brother in the 8th grade. How many other families are out there in this type of situation? I fought for my sons, I knew that there was something wrong and I fought the schools, community bias and went to doctors for a diagnosis. This took YEARS. Our children with mental disorders do not have years to wait for help. People seem to think you just take them 'in' and that is it. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Shame on all of you who feel it necessary to place blame and to add to the sorrow of those who are grieving. I can not imagine what it would have and will be like for those of you that have lost someone so near and so dear to you that way. There are no right words for me to express my deepest sympathy to all of you. Please stop trying to place the blame. There was one person who could have ultimately controlled the situation.