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...flags, Markell said: either he was an excellent actor, or he had not yet made a decision to hunt down and kill as many people as he could. "I honestly do not think it was on his mind to shoot all those people on the day he bought that gun," Markell said. "Nobody waits five weeks. Something had to set him off. I guess the loss of his girlfriend perhaps. But whatever it was, he just snapped...
...According to Markell, Cho sailed through the background check. He presented three forms of identification - a Virginia driver's license, checks imprinted with the same address and a U.S. immigration document proving that he was a permanent resident of the U.S. He used his own credit card for the gun, which retailed...
...imagine," he says. "It was bad enough to watch the carnage. I didn't know I was involved until yesterday evening. I feel the same thing would still have happened if he'd bought it somewhere else. I'm positive he did not buy that gun with all this in mind. You just don't buy a gun like that and then wait five weeks.... I don't believe I'm responsible, but at the same time I feel terrible that he used one of our guns...
...turned out, the Glock 19 was perfect for Cho's deadly purpose. The gun is just 6.85 inches long and 5 inches wide, according to a Glock website, and thus easily concealed. A vest with several pockets can hold a number of compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...
...Common Ground on Gun Control? Witness: The Dormitory Murders How Much of Cho to Show? Viewpoint: Va. Tech's President Should Resign Echoes of Columbine Inside a Mass Murderer's Mind What Can Schools Do? The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm When a School Learns to Mourn How to Make Campuses Safer Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools Photos