Loner: Remove "N" and Insert "S"

The asshole who murdered 32 innocent people on Monday was not a loner. A loner is someone who chooses to be alone.

The asshole who murdered 32 innocent people stalked women, he was jealous of the rich, and was unpopular. He was punishing people for years of ignoring him. A true loner would not care about the years of being ignored and would actually do all he could to stretch it out even longer.

The asshole who murdered 32 innocent people mailed a package of photos, videos, and a manifesto to NBC news so that the world would pay attention to him. A true loner would not want the world’s attention.

The asshole who murdered 32 innocent people on Monday was not a loner. Just like mistaking Iraq for Iran, we got most of the letters right, but missed a key one. Remove the “n” and replace it with an “s” and you see what this asshole really was in life: a loser.

The asshole (a man whose name will never appear here) apparently had a very long history with the Virginia Tech police dating back to 2005. He was labeled as “mentally ill” and considered a danger to himself and others. Twice he was accused of stalking female students and was committed to a hospital for mental reasons at least once. It boggles the mind how he was still a student on campus, doesn’t it?

This man was a man with no sense of self-identity and desperate for attention. He modeled himself after the Columbine kids it seems and mailed his package in the down time between killings because he wanted the fame those two kids got.

The ramblings NBC aired tonight shows this was a man with no clue why he was doing what he was doing and was just listing anything he could think of as an excuse. He blames the rich, greed, Christians; he talks in the past tense; he uses every fifty-cent word he can find and uses most of them incorrectly. The tapes did not show the monster he envisioned, but rather a pathetic insane kid.

Some people are going to attack NBC for showing this asshole’s words fearing it will inspire other people, but after watching the segments I honestly do not think that will be the case. He comes across as someone redefining “pathetic.” He appears not as a hero, but as a victim of his own delusions that he obviously doesn’t even understand himself. He was someone whose life would be a joke if it were not for the final count.

I say we not speak of him again. He once signed a roll sheet with a question mark so let him forever be nothing more. 32 innocent people were killed by _______ is all I will remember from this day on.

P.S. Although I do not believe in Hell, times like this make me hope I am wrong.