Nobody knows him.
We did not share our blessings;
we must share our grief.

From what the teacher in the Creative Writing Class, she knew him. And had reported some of the distrubing writings he has submitted to her. Rather scary, no one checked into his mental state.

I suppose it's easy to believe no one new him. Being that he lived in two residences, there's no way to really know how much time he spent at VT.
These aren't kids attending school; as some seem to forget. These are adults, barely adults that is, attending college. Papers written might put some insight into his mental state, but he's a grown man. Being that he was in a creative English class, who could really judge one way or another. He's entitled to write about whatever he saw fit to write about. Nothing he wrote could have predicted the catastrophe he created. He chose to kill 32 students. He chose to hate. He chose to seeth in his anger towards "rich kids". No one made him do it; he's full of it to state such a thing. He's rotting in a place right now that even I don't wish on my worst enemy. Is it justice served? For us maybe, but not for God.

I hate it how so many blame this massacre on the easy availability of guns in this country. This especially applies among the anti-gun lobby and in Europe. For example, in Italy the "Corriere Della Sera" paper made a reference to the existence of "Gun Supermarkets" in the USA (wtf!? as if you can buy a gun the same way you can buy groceries. European arrogance and prejudice at its "finest.") Meanwhile, the Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung online asked, in its poll if stricter gun controls can prevent massacres. Their gun control laws are stricter than ours, but it didnt prevent the Erfurt (Germany) school massacre (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1954293.stm, 17 dead+ suicide). Both killers wanted attention (Virginia Tech and Erfurt). Guns don't kill people, people kill people (or at least try to). If the gunman didnt have a gun, he would have probably used something else (car, bomb, etc). Here's an example from a year ago involving a UNC/Chapel Hill graduate plowing an SUV into a crowded campus (his own) reportedly to avenge the deaths of his fellow Muslims (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11660817/)--charged with multiple counts of assault and attempted murder. Gun control/gun bans dont solve anything, with Washington DC having the highest murder rate per 100000 despite having a handgun ban and strict controls on other guns. If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have them (and the law-abiding citizens wont be able to really defend themselves).
That brings me to another issue: he came to VTPD's attention in Fall 05, what did they really do? More importantly, how was he even admitted to Virginia Tech in the first place? They keep talking about his troubled past (he was suicidal, even sent to a mental health facility!) and long-standing personality issues (whatever they are), but they somehow forgot to interview his High School classmates/teachers. Interviewing his roommates/classmates and his English professor is all nice and dandy, but what about his classmates/instructors in high school? What would they say about him? Did he have any issues/problems/disciplinary while he was in high school? Again, they dont show the whole picture. What about before Fall 05?
Also, they say he was an English Major, but didnt speak much in such classes (many instances, especially in the latter part of the term, he didnt show up in class). In effectively all English Departments, class participation is important. What was going on with him, the shooter?