I was completely disturbed by the picture on the front page of today's paper.
It was a picture of the Virginia Tech gunman from this week's shooting holding two guns and dressed in the "boy scout uniform" of a hunting vest.
Sure, it's eerie because the incident was so recent, but it's more than that. One has to look at the picture and the others located on MSNBC's website, from a photographer's point of view.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18195423/ is the link to the MSNBC article about the pictures that Cho Seung-Hui took during the massacre and mailed to MSNBC between the first and second waves of the attack. Take it, click on the link to the rest of the pictures they received, and you'll see what I mean.
They are normal pictures with one problem- Cho is perfectly centered in each of them, as if posing for a photographer. That's the part that doesn't sit well with me; there had to be someone else, because it is impossible to take pictures that accurate without having someone else take them; even timers don't give someone that kind of perception.
My forensics teacher pointed this disturbing characteristic of the pictures to my classmates and I today, much to our initial wonder and then shock.
It forces one to ask a chilling question: is there another killer walking the campus of Virginia Tech?
The world may never know.
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Yes. The world will know. Conspiracy theories do not need to abound in this arena. I know too many people at VT and am there way to much to allow this talk to go on. Most of the pictures that the news showed, number 1, were screen shots from the video. The video was filmed with a webcam then put onto a Quicktime format. In the unedited version, you can see him leaning over to shut off the camera. Number 2, why does someone have to physically snap the picture? There are 10, 5, whatever second delays on most all digital cameras. He needed only to set it up on a tripod or stack of books, step back, and viola! Picture.
There was no second shooter. This is April 2007. Not November 1963.
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I apologize if I brought up a touchy subject or brought the idea of conspiracy theories to mind, but startingoen is not my intention at all. It was a mere observation when my teacher, friends, and I looked at the pictures. Still, there is no guarantee that it was on a timer. The fact is, no one can know for sure unless they get a message from the beyond with a confession as to who filmed it, and I wouldn't put my money on that.
There is concrete EVIDENCE to support the fact that he was the only shooter. Bullistics already ruled out that possibilty. All of the bullets matched two guns, both of the guns were owned by Cho, and I'm pretty sure they found his fingerprints on both of the guns as well.
"Still, there is no guarantee that it was on a timer."
AND there's no guarantee that it WASN'T. Besides, the person above you made it clear that most of those photos were screenshots from the Quicktime video he made, and its pretty easy to test the camera and set it up to center the area you are going to be standing in anyway. All you need to do is put it on a desk or a tripod.
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