Virginia Tech

== == Seung-Hui Cho was the Virginia Tech student who went on a shooting rampage (now known as the Virginia Tech Massacre), killing 32 individuals and wounding 25 others.

I was there, I was actually at school when it happened, and my dad used to work in Virginia Tech, and he worked in the building across from the shooting. It was sooo scary, because our school was half a mile away from Virginia Tech, and if you go there, you can see memories of them, like pictures and stuff. So sad! There's still some blood on the sidewalk.

• There was the perpetrator Seung-Hui Cho.
• There were 32 individals that he killed.
• There were the 23 that were injured.
• There were the crime scene investigators and law enforcement.
• There was the medical staff that treated the survivors.
• There were the forensic investigators.
• There were the families that buried their loved ones.
• There were the janitors that cleaned up the mess.
• There were crisis counselors.
• There was the state review panel which issued a report.
• There was the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund which wants it remembered.
• There were the media and they surely numbered in the thousands.

As the other person said everything is correct but one item the janitors we not the ones that clean up the mess it was a team of people cleaned up everything they clean up crime scenes on a daily bases. If the janitors were to clean up the mess the school would have never been able to keep classes going. OSHA is a govt group that works with many different things and the cleaning up of crime scenes is in deed one of them. OSHA would have never let the janitors clean up the mess there not trained to pick up blood and brain tissue and other bodily fluids.

A better answer would be to find a way to require people who exhibit SERIOUS psychological problems to get help before they kill others. However, that would have far-reaching implications that people would not accept, and I'm not sure people should accept them.

The best solution would be to examine history. What has changed in the course of the last 50 years or so that is leading people to use guns to massacre others?

When my dad was in high school, his principal would joke with him about having his gun in his car and visa versa. Both were avid hunters and neither would even have considered using their guns to kill another person. Less than 40 years ago, when I was in high school, it was not uncommon to see gun racks in the back of boy's pick-ups with guns in them in the school parking lot. No one thought anything about it. Today, children can get in trouble for taking what? Kitchen knives, nail files, anything that could remotely be used for a weapon? to school. Virgina Tech still happened, so did Columbine and others.

Fifty years ago, children were taught to take responsibility for their actions, self-control, respect for others, etc. Today, children are taught that if they do something wrong, do not control their actions, etc. they have a disease and it's not their fault, or they're taught it's the other person's fault. An example was when a boy called another boy's mother a name at school and boy #2 punched boy #1. I intervened, of course, and boy #2 was adamant that it was the other boy's fault. I never did get through to that boy that he was responsible for taking his own hand and punching the other boy. That was ten years ago. Earlier in history, children were under no illusions about whose fault it was if they took their hands and hit someone. Why the change?

Fifty years ago, if you did something that you shouldn't, you would be punished and that punishment might be a spanking. My worst one is when I lied and dad took me out behind the shed. Today, people think spanking leads to violent individuals. Think about it. If that is true, shouldn't the massacres have happened back then, not today?

Many other changes have occurred, but I'm sure noone wants to read a book about societal changes that are the root causes of massacres like Virginia Tech, at least not here on WikiAnswers.

No, changing the gun laws is not the answer. Changing the root causes of people killing others in mass is the answer!

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. . er, wasn't it about guns rather than spanking? . . :). Let's call them what they really are. The laws need changing so that fewer people have access to people-killing machines.

From a Sept. 26, 2009 Washington Post article by Mark Viera...

The famed entrance was created because Virginia Tech erected a scoreboard, before the 2000 season, with a large video screen and the university's athletics marketing team wanted to create an entrance video for the Hokies. While the film production was contracted to a producer, it was up to the marketers to find the right music.

There were a handful of songs in consideration, including "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses and the Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius," which already had gained attention as the Chicago Bulls' entrance music. Virginia Tech's marketing team settled on Metallica's "Enter Sandman."

"Enter Sandman" was first used at Lane Stadium for the 2000 season opener against Georgia Tech. Although the game was canceled before kickoff because of torrential rain and lightning, the song had caught on.

The second element of the "Enter Sandman" mystique came later. Before one particularly chilly night game, some of the Virginia Tech marching band members started jumping up and down to keep warm before the team's entrance. Soon, everyone copied.

Link to full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092502363.html