According to this article in the Washington Post, Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung Hui Cho “displayed many of the same characteristics of a criminal behavioral profile called the ‘Collector of Injustice,’ or someone who considers any misfortune against him the fault or responsibility of others.”
Cho used religious language in attempting to justify his rampage: “”I say we take up the cross, Children of Ishmael, take up our guns and knives . . . and take no prisoners and spare no lives.”
The article says the collector of injustice’s “compilation of wrongs becomes overloaded, and he lashes out violently to right them and get even with those who he believes have caused him misfortune and ridicule.”
What is the difference between Cho, whom everybody agrees was a psychopath, and the Islamic suicide bombers who kill themselves and others with such alarming frequency? Only that Cho’s “collection of injustices” was a private collection. The suicide bombers have thousands, perhaps millions, of people legitimating their grievances and the horrific “solution” to them by appealing to one of the world’s largest religions.
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