I just witnessed the most amazing interview on GMA.

Those of you that are news junkies know that Cho Seung-Hui mailed a video of himself to NBC news on Monday in between his killing sprees. It is full of rage, hatred, profanity and utterly disturbing images. When I heard last night that he had done this, I immediately flipped over to the news channels to see if they were actually running the footage. Of course, they were. This is so sick.

Sadly, I know that there were executives at NBC who were ecstatic to have been the chosen network. Because every other news channel is showing the video with a big "NBC News" logo in the corner. Reportedly they copied the contents and then handed it over to law forces. They began releasing the footage during last night's evening newscast with Brian Williams.

Okay, I'm not an idiot. I know that it would be ridiculous for me to assume that news organizations would show some restraint and compassion for the victims of this horrible episode and not plaster the image of their child's killer all over the television. In one of the pictures, the observer is actually looking straight into the barrel of the gun, much like the victims did before they died.

If I was in one of those rooms that day and survived only by jumping out of a window or playing dead, those images are going to be burned into my brain forever. Can you even imagine the nightmares that these people will live with for the rest of their lives? And now the man who did this to him is being allowed to dominate American society with not only news about him, but images and video of him. It is so twisted. Is this not what inspires other sociopaths to want to go out and do the same thing? Why reward him with fame for one of the most evil acts in American history?

So, back to the interview. Robin Roberts just interviewed a forensic psychiatrist named Dr. Michael Welner. She thought he was going to give insight into the mind of this madman. Instead, he was appealing to ABC and all the other networks to take the video off the air NOW. He was practically begging. Robin was completely thrown off balance, and admitted that they had had a very "heated debate" in their newsroom that morning about what to show. Dr. Welner said that it is delusional ramblings that we can learn absolutely nothing from. It is pure voyeurism to watch and listen to what he had to say and it is glamorizing what he did and making it seem appealing to all the other crazies out there. It was utterly amazing that this doctor didn't kowtow to what he knew were the expectations of the network, but instead appealed that they would be the first to pull the footage. I'm sure the interview will show up on You Tube at some point, and it would be worth the time it takes to look for it.

Robin also admitted that the message boards were lit up with people demanding that the footage be pulled. This is very encouraging to me, that there are a lot of people out there more concerned with the victims than trying to "figure" this guy out.

Because, can we just agree that we will never be able to understand why he did this? There is no mystery here. The guy was evil. There is absolutely nothing that could have been done to prevent his actions, outside of him being locked up. In our country, we don't lock people up for being suicidal or strange. If he was intent on killing a bunch of people, he would have done it one way or the other.

Now, are there implications here about privacy laws in healthcare? Perhaps. Cho's parents were not informed of his erratic behavior because it was not legal for anyone to alert them. Could they have done anything? There's no way to know. What about the antidepressant medication that he was on? It's not the first red flag that some of those medicines cause suicidal and violent tendencies when the recipient withdraws or stops taking them cold turkey. I think a very serious look is needed at restrictions on prescribing these drugs.

But I hope the networks will seriously consider pulling this footage. I'm reminded of the days shortly after 9-11 when they made the decision to pull the footage of the airplanes and the towers crumbling out of "respect for the victims." The images were just too disturbing to show over and over again. The psychopathic ramblings of a deranged serial killer are pretty disturbing to me.

The best quote of the interview was when Dr. Welner said, "Listen, if you can take Imus off the air, you can certainly keep [Cho] from having his own morning show." That about sums it up.