no easy answers

It's been a long week, my friends. I'm running out of steam. Here is just a long list of links related to the Virginia Tech shooting:

• Trying to make sense of the monster on that tape: Cho's Image Leaves Indelible Mark
  
• Cho's classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: "Go back to China": Va. Tech shooter a 'textbook killer'
  
• This Salon.com article by Jeff Yang compares Cho to other Asian mass shooters: Killer reflection
  
• The Oldboy connection is "the most ridiculous hypothesis yet": VT Killer's Hammer Pose Resembles Movie
  
• This article instead goes to contrived lengths to compare Cho's actions to the films of John Woo: Cinematic Clues To Understand The Slaughter
  
• Reactions to Cho's manifesto: Killer's images 'a second assault on us'
  
• Remember the victims, not the lasting image of the killer: Grieving parent: Remember our children
  
• Some are calling substitute teacher Haiyan Cheng a hero: Images of shootings still fresh in minds of many
  
• More reaction from South Korea: In South Korea, a collective sorrow over Virginia shooting
  
• More on the fear of backlash against Korean Americans: Korean-Americans Brace for Problems in Wake of Killings
  
• Another good article in the Los Angeles Times: When ethnicity brings an unwelcome focus
  
• A press release from the Asian American Psychological Association: Asian American Psychological Association Mourns Virginia Tech Tragedy

UPDATE: Some more articles to add to the pile:

• This is a good roundup of the debate over how to report the killer's name: Cho Seung-Hui or Seung-Hui Cho?
  
• The actions of Cho Seung Hui are no more the fault of Korean Americans than the actions of the Washington area snipers were the fault of African Americans. A good column by Adrian Hong: Koreans Aren't to Blame
  
• Radio shock jocks are having a field day over this: Talk Radio Tries for Humor and a Political Advantage
  
• Cho's sister, Sun-Kyung, talked to her campus ministry director at Princeton this week: Cho '04 calls campus friend
  
• China's Foreign Ministry's comments on the initial report that the gunman was a foreign student from Shanghai: FM slashes U.S. untruthful reports on campus shooting
  
• A Huffington Post commentary on the Sun Times' mistake: Virginia Tech Shooting: One American Woman Terrifies China

UPDATE: And another batch:

• The Cho family makes their first public statement: Va. gunman's family feels hopeless. It breaks your heart.
  
• A great, powerful piece of writing by one of my favorite bloggers, Pierre Kim, aka MetroDad: To the Students of Virginia Tech
  
• Asian Americans are less likely to make use of mental health services than members of other ethnic groups: Asians less likely to seek therapy
  
• This article is pretty terrible, but it does reveal some information (too much, actually) on Cho's family background: SON OF A BITCH

Like many of you, I've had a heavy heart all week, still without any more satisfactory answers than when this all started. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to contribute links, as well as notes of encouragement. Stay Angry... in the good way.