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Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin

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To: Velveeta
My heart aches for all those who will be receiving tragic news today.

Mine too. My youngest is away at college and I can't imagine what it must be like for the parents of those students watching this massacre unfold. It's truly heartbreaking.

1,041 posted on 04/16/2007 10:52:59 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: rintense

I posted this upthread and no one commented.

MSNBC had a telephone interview with a student who was shot in the upper arm. The student is a sophomore majoring in biochemistry and he was in a Norris Hall classroom. He told MSNBC that the shooter was college-aged male, Asian, and wearing a maroon cap and leather jacket. The student said that his professor was shot. He said that he and other students barricaded the door to keep the shooter out. He said that the shooter did not appear to be looking for anyone and that the victims were randomly shot.


1,042 posted on 04/16/2007 10:53:21 AM PDT by Mad-Margaret
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To: shoedog
My point is, if you are 21 you have a right to drink alcahol, but you cannot go to class with alchahol, you cannot go into sports games with alcahol. I have no problem with someone having the right to carry, but in college class rooms isn’t the place.

I bet if you had been in that room, and someone entered and starting shooting people, you'd have a different opinion.

If there had been a teacher at Columbine with a firearm, just imagine the chance lives would have been saved. Same goes here. What we need, are more armed citizens.
1,043 posted on 04/16/2007 10:53:22 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: varina davis
Washington Times Bill Sammon’s children attend there.

I think Steve Ducey's son is there also.
1,044 posted on 04/16/2007 10:53:22 AM PDT by GreyWolf (My $.02)
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To: JellyJam
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack...

I am not sure of the religion of the shooter but I do know that this was a Terrorist Attack.

1,045 posted on 04/16/2007 10:53:29 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: rintense

They’re not saying anything about the shooter yet.


1,046 posted on 04/16/2007 10:53:56 AM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: Danae

Oh, dear. Someone else just said 32. I guess he shot himself, too bad. I’d love to see him get the chair for this.


1,047 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:04 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: fatnotlazy

I pray that your friend’s son is safe. His parent’s must be going through hell right now. My God give them comfort strength and hope.


1,048 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:09 AM PDT by lastchance
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To: freeperfromnj

Feds saying 32 dead...being reported on the local feed


1,049 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by Abundy
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To: lastchance

Thanx for the good context. The kneejerk gun control questions to the prez today remind me of Chelsea Clinton’s initial response on 9/11 :” What I’m most worried about is that people are hurt and they might not have access to proper healthcare.”


1,050 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:21 AM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: Corin Stormhands

My sister is a US Govt employee at VaTech. We just made contact with her.

Thank God she was in Wash D.C. today. She says that some of the shooting was in one of the 3 buildings in which she normally does business. I don’t know which.


1,051 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

something troublin about this shooting’s M.O. Remember Hamas or hezbolla or AlQueida...they bomb and hide and wait for 1st responders to show up and then bomb again....This M.O. was the same


1,052 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:45 AM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Lazamataz

Good post. Virginia schools are one of the plans that they have drawing of (see my post #709)


1,053 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:46 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Madeline Albright ZaPeezda)
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To: Spktyr

FOX has been reporting that due to the high winds they could not use helicopters to evacuate the wounded to trauma centers. Many of the wounded had to be taken in police cars.

So I agree with you, many of these fatalities are most likely due to the fact that immediate emergency care was unavailable. Horrific events today.


1,054 posted on 04/16/2007 10:54:58 AM PDT by myrabach
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To: JellyJam
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack, “but all avenues will be explored.”

That's not the usual "no link to terrorism" denial by the FBI.

1,055 posted on 04/16/2007 10:55:00 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Moose4; Danae; johniegrad

THey might be wearing hospital booties to preserve trace evidence; not contaminate the scene.


1,056 posted on 04/16/2007 10:55:06 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: trumandogz

“Without question this was a terrorist attack not matter what their religion.”

Possible. But I’ll be shocked if it is an Inslamic terrorist attack. Doesn’t fit the profile. A “martyr” would have gone into freshman history with 200 students and blown themselves up. Walking around killing people doesn’t fit the radical islamic jihadist pattern.


1,057 posted on 04/16/2007 10:55:10 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: TalonDJ

I should spend my life in a hole because being surrounded by armed students would make me uncomfortable? It isn’t your typical permit-holding gun carrier that would make me uncomfortable. It’s the random idiots who would carry his/her gun to class bnecause he/she LOVE GUNS. Don’t act like those people don’t exist and aren’t plentiful. Should we be able to carry guns into stadiums too? I’m not an advocate of gun-conrol but I don’t think the solution to this problem is to allow students to take guns into classrooms. Faculty? Sure. I know way too many people who I wouldn’t want carrying a gun on campus.


1,058 posted on 04/16/2007 10:55:56 AM PDT by utvolsfan13
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To: milford421
Parents are going to sue the school into the ground, claiming classes shouldn't have been in session today, given the latest bomb threat was less than 72 hours prior to the first shots fired today, first school day since the threat, building(s) should have remained closed, etc.

This alert/article from the school's web site was just published after business hours this past Friday...

Bomb threat closes Torgersen, Durham, Whittemore halls; events relocated; $5,000 reward offered

By Larry Hincker

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 13, 2007 -- (6:15 p.m. EDT) Virginia Tech is offering a $5,000 reward related to the two recent bomb threats on campus.

The reward will be given for information or leads leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved in either bomb threat incidents occurring April 2 or April 13.

Information should be directed to Virginia Tech Police at 232-TIPP (8477).

Virginia Tech Police, in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies, continue to investigate both incidents.

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(6 p.m. EDT) Due to the closing of Torgersen, Durham, and Whittemore halls as a result of a bomb threat, the locations of the following events scheduled this weekend in those buildings have been changed:

* Hokie Focus: Please come to Burruss Hall Lobby between 8:30 and 9 a.m. to check in and receive instructions for specific Hokie Focus events.

* The Wittgenstein Conference scheduled for 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Saturday has been moved from 1000 Torgersen Hall to 110 Holden Hall.

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April 13, 2007, 3 p.m. EDT--Because of a bomb threat, Virginia Tech is immediately closing the following three buildings: Torgersen, Durham, and Whittemore halls.

Classes in these three buildings are cancelled for the remainder of the day.

The three buildings will remain closed until further notice.

Traffic will be restricted on campus roadways including the Alumni Mall.

Activities scheduled in these buildings for tonight and this weekend will be rescheduled. Go to www.vt.edu for further information.

All faculty, staff, administrators, and graduate students who work in Torgersen, Durham, and Whittemore halls are asked to immediately report to the Burruss Hall Auditorium for further information.

Blacksburg Transit will also be rescheduled. Look for further information.

Contact Larry Hincker at hincker@vt.edu or (540) 231-5396.

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http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=244

1,059 posted on 04/16/2007 10:55:59 AM PDT by jdm
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To: spunkets

Wrong. He was a reporter. He didn’t have a gun.


1,060 posted on 04/16/2007 10:56:04 AM PDT by ilovew (Almost a college graduate!!!)
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