All of us who don’t spend all day in schools need to remember that this, and the other school shootings, are things students have to live with every day.

Just think of all the kids who look at the “weird” kid and wonder if he’s going to kill them. I’d say showing who Cho actually was one of the best things about this video – which certainly would have been a lot more questionable for presentation in school if a “picture montage” of real people had preceded it.

It’s like asking why someone would want to make a video about domestic violence… just because it’s not a part of your world doesn’t mean it’s not something that affects other people.

Finally, I would argue that saying Cho should have been “stopped” is true, but SHOULD is different than could have. What “they” should/could have stopped him? Armed guards at the school? Other students who also carried weapons? The police years before because someone determined him to be mentally ill? And what should have happened to him if the police did act on that teacher’s concerns? Court mandated therapy? Institutionalization? Would either of those have ensured a massacre was prevented? maybe… but are there things that just have to happen in order to change how society thinks? would there have been a shooting at a different school if this one hadn’t happened?

Anyway. Just my thoughts.