Whilst reading the papers on Sunday, I noticed there was a great deal of discussion on the terrible shootings at Virginia Tech University by Cho Seung-hui.

Much of it was trying to answer the question, “Who is to blame?”

The was considered opinion blaming the gun laws in the US, the campus security policy, and in surprisingly rare accusation, some even blamed Cho Seung-hui himself for being a total mentalist.

They all seem to have missed the real culprit however. There was a transcript of his morning on that fateful day, and it showed that he killed a couple of people and then went the post office to post his video before returning to the University to kill a further thirty people.

Why are people ignoring this gap between killing two people and killing thirty? Maybe he was done. Until he reached the Post Office.

If any of you have ever tried to post a parcel on Pension Day, then I think you will all be able to spot the real culprit of this horrendous crime. Like most you reading this, I have thought about killing people in just about every visit I have ever made to the Post Office. But luckily I am sufficiently in control of my faculties to realise I should not do this, or at least pretend that this is the case when I am on the Internet.

However, you put a full-on mental person in that same situation – one who has already killed two people that day – and you can surely see how the situation is going to escalate?

Unfortunately it is much easier to blame the pro-gun lobby or the University’s lackadaisical approach to security. It just is not the done thing to point the accusing finger at the good-old Post Office, despite the fact that there is also blood on their hands.

Of course, if this attack had happened in the UK, we would all still be speculating on the reasons for the seemingly senseless killings, as it has only been seven days since he would have given the video to the UK postal service. In fact, we would probably not have got our answers until shortly after the May Bank Holiday. The second one. Next year.

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