Decision to broadcast US gunman video sparks controversy

Due to the US television broadcasting station, CNN, FOX networks broadcasting the gunman’s video, many controversies were sparked.

I must say that it is not wrong for CNN and FOX networks to broadcast the video. What they are trying to do is to give the audience an explanation as to why the gunman chose to kill so many students. Instead, what I feel is that we should look at the motive behind the gunman’s purpose of sending the video.

I believe that the gunman sent the video only after much consideration. As such, the planning of killing the students must have been plotted long ago. When he was discriminated, jeered at and the joke of everyone, he must have been containing his anger, frustration and hatred. Up to the day when he could not stand it any longer, he decided that the best way to take revenge is to murder those who have “done him wrong” and then take his own life. Then he uses the video to proclaim his reasoning for the killing. Through it what he wants to achieve is to tell the whole world the wrong he has been given, the things he should have got and unveils his plot to put to death those who was bad to him. All in all, I feel that his actions are foolish and childish. Does killing people makes him honorable or does it help him get back the injustice he suffered? I doubt so. It only made him infamous and the target of resentment among the victim’s family members. What he has created is but a bad saga, one that was not meant to exist if he had conversed and spoke to people, instead of living in his own world and acting autistic.

Had Cho Seung Hui opened up and interacted with his peers, he would not be seen as a target but as a friend in which one can communicate. By mingling with his classmates, he may be able to express his feelings and thoughts then his emotions would not be trapped, making him uncomfortable, leeching and draining him until he finally gave in and committed an undesirable act. Furthermore, if his classmates had taken the initiative to talk to him and tried to understand him, the tragedy would not have happened. Therefore, what has happened today is but an incorrect move and one that everyone failed to see as a consequence.