It pisses me off when the press goes on its usual fashion: "The killings at Virginia could have been prevented" "There were signs: He had to be reprimanded by his teachers. He had been admonished about letters he had written to certain girls." What the heck else could have been done? Should everyone who creates a disturbance in a classroom be put into protective custody? For every Cho out there are millions of other weird kids who act strange in class or write weird letters who don't kill 30 people. Should everyone with any sort of history of mental illness be kept away from college campuses? That would end up including a lot of professors, including Kurt Vonnegut.

Do we really want to restrict freedoms that much? Let's just keep the blame where it belongs - with this one asshole who decided kill a bunch of people.

Then there are the anti-gun lobby people. If each of those 30 people that were shot had been armed, there were would have been one or two deaths instead of 30. There was nothing about Cho that would have matched any screening criteria. The Oklahoma City bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh was made of fertilizer. Maybe Cho would have just bought some .

Cho's problem was pretty clear: he needed to get laid. Virginia Tech should institute a new policy to make sure that all incoming students are getting laid. That'll solve the problem.

Btw, anyone notice how much bigger a deal we make this incident than we do the 200 people that died in terrorist attacks in Iraq the same day? The most to die in bombings since the war began. Of course, those deaths mean less.

(Just a momentary mood I'm in. Don't sweat it.)