2007 Virginia Tech shooting / Seung-Hui Cho

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Virginia Tech will always be the most interesting school shooting to me. Part of it is just how inscrutable some of its presentation was. He left a long, rambling manifesto, both text and video, and yet his motive is basically inscrutable because he couched it in such elaborate, extravagant and obscure terminology (e.g. I am Ax Ishmael. I am the Anti-Terrorist of America). What is Ax Ishmael supposed to mean? The overarching theme is revenge on society but whatever he specifically wants revenge for is unclear - rape, maybe? Literal or figurative?

Manifesto
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Photos
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Links:
The text manifesto

Richard McBeef, his play

Mr. Brownstone, his other play
 
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