Let's salvage the VT thread (part 2): mental illness

[Sethomas]

I was on a bad medicine combination that amplified what insanity I already had, so I went to kill an old friend of mine but was stopped on the road by cops for a burnt-out license plate light and had my car searched and fortunately had to call it off. Luckily I'm pretty sane now, though this meant coming clean with people and getting kicked out of my dream school. Whether or not I'll ever go back is still in the air, I'm somewhere else now.

[Miss Modular]

Last night I was really bored at work, so I began reading The Globe, which devoted a feature to "The Secret Gay Life of the VA Tech Killer". I realize it's The Globe, but the article theorized that his homocidal urges were a result of him being unable to express his homosexuality. They interviewed this woman who worked at a gay bar, and she said she saw him there a lot. The article's subheading said he got turned down by a guy, and in the article, they pointed out that his parents were evangelical Christians. I'm not saying that I believe it's true, but if it is, it certainly would put another dimension on the story. Then again, no, it might not.

[theapportioner]

I've wondered about that too. If you read his plays, ass-raping seems to be quite the prevalent theme...