rereading this, I realized that i sound sympathetic to the murderer, which I certainly do not. And I believe everyone is always responsible for their actions, regardless of their history. But the fact is that he killed himself, and while directing hatred at him might be an easy way to forget our depression, it is much more responsible to accept that no matter how much hatred we feel toward him, nothing will undo the murders he committed.
I don't mean to chide the maker of this thread. I've just been thinking a lot about the ethics behind responding to violence with hatred. There have been times when I've wished that I could kill someone, and just an hour ago I was saying how angry it makes me that the murderer killed himself, so that the state couldn't. But terrorists like him obviously don't fear death enough, so the greatest punishment we can inflict upon them is indifference. It is far more painful to be ignored than hated. So as news stations fuel our national hatred with their horror stories about the disturbed youth who murdered 32 people, we grant this boy exactly the infamy that would fulfill all of his desires. Lets instead forget the killer, and try instead to remember the legacy of each of the innocent individual students, who most of us never met, but could easily have been one of our friends or relatives.