What Can Schools Do? | TIME
Here is some evidence to back my claim that Cho should have never been able to buy a gun. The gun seller probably did not have this information. If the seller did know this about Cho the guns would not have been sold. So why doesn't a background check reveal that he might have been suicidal? Why doesn't the background check include his hospitalization? Something needs to be done to keep guns away from people who want to harm themselves or others.
In the fall of 2005, some 17 months before Cho Seung-Hui went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech, his behavior was so disturbing that his creative-writing professor had him removed from her class. Later that semester, two female students complained separately about what one called his "annoying" advances, and after an acquaintance warned that Cho might be suicidal, he was detained for several hours, evaluated at a local mental-health facility and released. "Everyone who is hospitalized isn't going to be banned from campus," Dr. Christopher Flynn, head of Virginia Tech's counseling center, told TIME.
Here is some evidence to back my claim that Cho should have never been able to buy a gun. The gun seller probably did not have this information. If the seller did know this about Cho the guns would not have been sold. So why doesn't a background check reveal that he might have been suicidal? Why doesn't the background check include his hospitalization? Something needs to be done to keep guns away from people who want to harm themselves or others.
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