Yeah I lived in Ottawa, and it was very diverse. We got Lebanese, Indian, Pakistanian, Chinese, and many other racial groups.
Law enforcement officials have provided this official photo of Cho Seung-Hui, the man they identify as the killer at Virginia Tech. Cho was a 23-year-old student of Korean descent who lived on campus. Sources tell ABC News he was carrying a backpack with a receipt for the purchase of a 9 mm handgun.
If he was a south korean national, at 23 and still in college, it probably means he did his military training after high school. Might explain why he was such a good shot.
He actually moved here when he was in elementry school and earned the greencard. I doubt he had to serve the country.
He has to serve otherwise he will face severe penalty if he return to South Korea. Of course, he has green card, so he doesn't really need to return. So it is not clear that he served or not. But how do you explain that he is 23 as a senior? Usually seniors are 21 or 22.
Now that I think about it, I think he might have served. Cho came here as a child. He should have gotten his green card long time ago. He should be eligible to apply for citizenship. He didn't do that. He might think he will return to Korea one day. If he has such thinking, then he should have served. Of course, this is just a speculation. We should know more about him in the next few days.
If you don't take a full load of classes every year. If you fail a couple of classes. If you change majors. There are numerous reasons. 23 is not that old for a senior. Folks tend to graduate high school at 18. It is not that unusual to spend 5 years in college.
fyi, I messed up on the day. Light a candle *tonight* at 8 pm EST in a window, outside, or just inside in memory/respect
Am I the only one who thinks that some quack media reporter is gonna go dig up info about how Koreans love to play Counter Strike and link it to the shootings?
great, so get all the facts in while a guy is picking people off one by one and then report after everything has been known? how stupid also, what is considered a red flag? when the first instant someone hears someone is getting killed. sending an email saying be cautious is really unacceptable. who cares if you know the facts or not, shut down. period
not related to Koreans...but i did see an Anderson Cooper interview with a kid who did a mass shooting similar to this...and his comment was, he understood gun play from video games...and didn't understand that he could kill people with one shot. because on Doom, he had to shoot the bad guys 8 times or so to get them to go down. and i know the kid who shot kids as they were running out of his school in Arkansas made perfect head shots. the experts who studied it felt like the video games had trained him perfectly. and our own military uses video game simulation for training. just saying. not for outlawing video games. but we've got heaps and heaps of what we sowed.
No offense Max but I hope you don't buy that garbage from the kid talking about Doom. The kid knew what he was doing and knew that one shot could kill. Everyone does. You're taught from the time you're 4 years old that guns kill people. Of course the experts in all these situations point to video games because they believe that there has to be some underlying cause. It's all politics and has no basis in reality. I play plenty of first person shooter games and I'm pretty good at aiming in the game. However if you were to put a real gun in my hands, I would be nowhere near accurate. As far as the military using games for training, the military uses games for tactical training and not marksmanship training. Pointing to video games in a case like this is just a cheap way out from having to deal with the issues at hand. It's an easy target because gamers don't have a huge lobby organization and it's an easy target because of the stereotypes of gamers as loners sitting in their basements 24 hours a day.
Yeah, my college career lasted exactly one semester longer than four years and I was 23 when I graduated.
