The shooter in the Virginia Tech tragedy had an enormous amount of angst welled up within his soul.

His loneliness and his fear and rage cooked up a combustible cocktail of murder and mayhem that was just released with deadly precision upon the campus, staff and students.

It rocked the headlines for days.

Everyone knew the name Cho Seung-Hui. It is a story that has been heard before, but never to this immensity.

A scared and awkward kid gets pushed too far and he lashes out.

Days later the story has already moved out of the headlines and all the dirty laundry has been exposed for everyone to look at in perverse detail. NBC aired chilling footage of the video that the shooter sent to their office.

The presentation clearly took a significant amount of time to create. The police said it looked like it had taken him up to six days to produce.

All this time in a college dorm hall, and no one knew him well enough to catch on to what he was doing.

That is the part that makes me sad. The guy didn’t have anybody.

Everybody needs somebody.

So, I am writing this as a plea to those out there who are hurting and hiding in your dorm room because the modern world and Western madness has driven you to the edge.

If it hurts so bad in the pit of your soul that it makes you want to lash out and kill someone because you are so lonely that you have no one for you to see how disappointed that would make them, call me. Write me a letter. Accost me in the hallway.

I will be your friend.

Ten years of bartending and a history of dealing with the psychiatric industry has blessed me with a really good ear for troubles.

Being a big, burly, fat guy makes me a sturdy support for when you need someone to lean on and the better part of human nature gives me the compassion to want you to come to me before you make a decision that is irreversible.

Please, this is me reaching out.

I don’t judge anyone, and I understand what it is like to be insane. I know what it feels like to be alone in your own head.

I am an outsider as well, so please, just take a chance and reach out, too. I just might be able to help you. It is worth the chance, isn’t it?

As for all the bullies out there that find joy in the humiliation of those less socially competent than yourself: cut that crap out.

Nobody thinks it’s cool anymore, and look where it leads.