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Exactly a year ago, Seung-Hui Cho, a suicidal student at Virginia Tech, killed 32 others on campus before ending his own life. CBS anchor Katie Couric observed that the university's first anniversary commemorations honored the 32 but "made no mention of the gunman." NBC's Michelle Kosinski and ABC's David Kerley (embargoed link) attended the observances while CBS' Thalia Assuras got a guided tour of an exhibit of some of the 85,000-or-so messages of condolence the Hokies received from around the world. The collection is called the Prevail Archive.
ABC's Kerley noted that a lesson has been learned nationwide: "Nearly every university campus has added security systems…card swipes for access to dorms, new sirens to sound an alarm, an improved text messaging system to issue warnings." Not so responsive has been the FBI's system to regulate the sale of firearms. The killer Cho should, by law, have been unable to arm himself because of his medical history of mental illness. CBS' Chip Reid noted that Congress had offered incentives for states to add those with mental health disqualifications to the FBI's database yet it still contains only 402K of the 2.6m names that should be entered and "17 states have yet to send a single name to the FBI."
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