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Members of the Virginia Tech community grieve during a candlelight vigil on the drillfield at the Virginia Tech campus on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The vigil was held for those killed and injured in Monday morning’s shootings on campus.
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2007 Multimedia from The News & Advance
Published: April 12, 2008
Updated: April 16, 2008
Slideshow: Virginia Tech Remembers
Click here starting at 8:15 p.m. to watch the Vigil beginning at 8:15 p.m.
Click here for a collection of Virginia Tech news stories
On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 32 people on campus, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
One year later, pain continues to turn into remembrance and healing.
The NewsAdvance.com invites everyone to share their thoughts with the community in the comments below.
Tell us what you thought when you learned of the tragedy. Tell us how you think now. We want to hear from you.
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The News & Advance will have extensive coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings’ one-year anniversary this week. Keep checking NewsAdvance.com and print editions of The News & Advance for the latest stories, pictures, videos and more.
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BOB, STOP CALLING ME NAMES JUST BECAUSE I DON’T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAY. Third-graders call each other names. Adults should be able to disagree without resorting to acting like children.
So your right(crispy Daisy!) Lets keep things the way they are. Lets all continue things because it’s obviously working for us. Things continue to get better according to “Crispy Daisy”. In 2 years or less I guarantee there will be a movie produced about the VT shootings. I cant wait to see it.That will do us all good.I see you skipped over my analogy about having 90% of movies being about little children being molested.Wouldn’t that be ok according to you? Perfectly sane people can go see it and molestation will not go up.It will never give someone ideas and make them want to do what they see right? Compare 30 years ago to today. You didnt do that. I give up.You win! They say you can’t argue with an Idiot.
If someone started stabbing people in a movie theater, then he obviously had taken something with him to the theater that was capable of stabbing people, presumably a knife. That would indicate to me that he had planned it ahead of time. And I’m sure that there were VT students who saw violent movies (yet didn’t commit violent crimes), but how does that implicate VT? They don’t have any control over what movies students see. And DO NOT CALL ME DUMB AS A FENCE POST. I hate violent movies and do not watch them. I would be thrilled if there was never another one made. Millions of people see them, though, and never kill anyone because of it. Perfectly sane, normal people do not go out killing people because they saw it in a movie. People killed each other and did unspeakable things to each other long before movies were invented.
(Crispy Daisy) Do you think the guy that was in the Theater out here in California watching the slasher movie and started stabbing people in the same movie theater got any ideas from anywhere? Don’t come to me when some High School kid does the same (unreal) acts that were depicted in “Prom Night”.If the people you’re watching get killed in a movie is so harmless,than why aren’t there 90% of movies of little children being molested or women being raped for 2 hours on the big screen? It would be harmless right? WRONG ! ! ! ! Answer:because it’s disgusting - BAD not good. Get it? But the same people that are at the VT memorial will go to the movies and pick the most violent movie or pop in the most violent Playstation GAME and blow someones head off all night. So then in reality it doesn’t seem so bad to blow someones head off because you’ve been virtually doing it for years. That’s what makes you dumb as a fence post. “VT doesn’t have anything to do with violent movies”..... ok so not one person from VT supported any violent shootem Kill’em ,Prom night movies last or this year? You would think there would be a protest for any violent “entertainment” after last year. Problem is we’ll mourn for a while(like 9-11) then…..back to the same routine. (“People that go on rampages are already mentally unstable”)Then lets feed them Ideas so that they can express their unstable feelings. Lets give them some gore to watch so they can imagine themselves blowing a brain or 2 out. Rewind 30 years and tell me how many people went on a random shooting spree at schools or malls just for the hell of it as compared to the last 10 years. “clue”
bobforapples, the reason people “complain” about 32 students being killed is that 32 REAL people were killed. In case you can’t tell the difference, people in movies don’t really die. That’s why people get more upset about real killings than pretend ones. And what about violent movies makes VT and the rest of us “dumb as a fence post”? VT doesn’t have anything to do with making violent movies. I don’t, either, and don’t watch them. People who go on rampages are already mentally unstable; they’re going to be dangerous whether or not they see a violent movie. You can’t paint everyone in America with the same brush as those people.
VT & the rest of Americans are still dumb as a fence post. Why? Prom night was #1 at the Box office 22 MILLION DOLLARS !!! ! !!. Let me get this right. We complain about an Asian freak who kills 32 people but we PAY to watch people get slaughtered on the big screen for “ENTERTAINMENT”. Sex is bad! Porno’s are bad. You and I do what’s in pornos every week. (That’s how we all are alive on this planet by the way) But yet it’s thought of as worse than seeing 2 hours of people getting killed on the big screen (AMC-MANN-UNITED ARTIST). By the way the shoot’em up Gang movie was #2. You freaks are planting in the mind of a New unstable nut case by producing movies that people get MURDERED in. Then we cry and complain when someone goes on a rampage. Get real. Look into yourself and how crazy you are for spending $9 bucks to see people killed. In California people were watching a slasher Kill’em movie in Fullerton. Some nutbag was in the same Theater watching it and decided to start stabbing people just like in the Movies. (But remember,movies don’t cause people to do violent acts) Cant wait for the next violent movie or video game to cum out! ! ! ! ! ! Cj Garden Grove,California
Having read the VA Tech report, I can say that there should have been no “surprises” in identifying the problems in VA’s public mental health system. The issues that resulted in these reforms were long festering sores, and VA’s mental health consumers and advocates were largely unsuccessful in having them addressed over the years.
It saddens me to know that it took the loss of 33 young and promising lives in one incident, to bring about these reforms. What of the hundreds of lives that were previously lost in seperate mental health related tragedies, over the past few decades?
Yet, this is progress. Thanks to the area legislators who finally got the point, and to Governor Kaine for his leadership on these reforms. Now there must be vigilance. The same “status quo” forces that fought these reforms, are still in their posts as public mental health care providers.
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