What an ingenious idea for a news story....I know this has been done before, and even glamorized in the Hannibal Lector Trilogy, but interviewing a criminal with similar characteristics to the one who's currently in the papers is incredible.
Newsweek decided to interview Wayne Lo, a former student at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Mass., on the shooter at Virginia Tech. Lo was one of the US's first school shooters, killing six classmates.
Not only did Newsweek have a nice lengthy article with him, but they decided to make the bulk of the article an interview. His interview was fascinating. I strongly encourage you to read it--click here.
He was calm and intelligent and admitted that he doesn't think he was mentally disturbed at all. He and the Virginia Tech shooter had so much in common.
I loved a point he made about guns and gun control...it makes a lot of sense:
"The people who do these things are people who don’t want contact. They wouldn’t be capable of going out there and stabbing people to death. But there’s such a disconnect when you’re using a gun. You don’t even feel like you’re killing anybody. The fact that I was able to buy a rifle in 15 minutes, that’s absurd. I was 18. I couldn’t have rented a car to drive home from school, yet I could purchase a rifle. That night was the first time I fired a gun. Why should a person who has never touched a gun be able to buy one and the first time he fires it, be able to kill people? You wouldn’t be able to drive a car without a license."
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