NBC wrong in showing Cho.

By showing that terrible video all NBC did was contribute to Cho's crime. This kid was nothing but a scumbag who didn't have enough sense to kill himself first before ruining the lives of 32 other people. By putting this turd on TV NBC elevated him to something this worthless idiot was not. Let the cops have the tape and other details. Giving scumbags like this a venue is asking for more of the same. If NBC shows Cho's version of himself, I think they should show what Cho did to himself and others to put his stupidity in context. I read his plays and they are terrible, terribly poor. I am amazed that such incompitent writing would be worthy of a grade schooler let alone a university student. If he got anything other than an F for either of these poor excuses for plays the teacher was being overly generous.

Now onto refuting the conservative, gun toting idiots who think that armed students or teachers are the answer. Simply put in a situation where there is gunfire in a school, the responders are not going to ask everyone toting a gun for their permit. If you want to get shot by the cops then by all means pull your stupid gun out. The police had enough trouble making sure the students they did meet were not the shooter. And if half the class was armed and a gun goes off how is the first responder supposed to, with confidence, know who the actual perp is? I guess everyone would have to be arrested and sent to jail to await the investigation? I know cops and they would really be pissed if they came into a situation with a bunch of freaked out kids and teachers with guns all trying to be John F'ing Wayne.

Here is another winner of a scenario:

Let us just say that Cho entered the classroom with his guns and another student pulled his or her own gun and shot Cho first. The class would errupt into mayhem, many would vomit over the blood and gore, Cho would be dead or dying. The police would be called, the building evacuated. When the cops did arrive all they would have for certain is a dead student, apparently armed, and another student, also armed who has discharged their gun in class. The student who killed Cho would be put under arrest for the shooting and taken to jail. They would go to trial and may or may not be found guilty of manslaughter. Cho's family would probably file a wrongful death law suit too. The student who did the killing would most likely be expelled.

And no lives would have been saved. Hmmm? Well no because there is no crystal ball in current action. You cannot know what will happen during a given event. If you could go back in time then yes you would be able to stop Cho and with justification say you saved lives. But in reality the only murder in my little scenario would Cho's and the only killer would be the student who shot him.