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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

Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall

(Excerpt) Read more at vtnews.vt.edu ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; vatech; virginiatech
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To: Mr. Mojo

I just heard it’s up to 33.


2,221 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:16 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: VA40
Governor is returning for a trade mission vacation somewhere in the Far East.
2,222 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:20 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: mware

Steve Doocey’s (FOX Weatherman) son is also suppoesdly going to school there.


2,223 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:34 PM PDT by meg88
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To: meg88
Do they have a tape? It was on FOX news.
2,224 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:36 PM PDT by anglian
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To: meg88
Roanoke station (nearest the school) live coverage here:

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Copy and paste to Windows Media Player

2,225 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:38 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Moose4
It’s not a high school. You can’t just throw a switch and lock all the doors.

Exactly! Makes you wonder why the reporters bothering the college President and the police chief can't have figured that out by now!

2,226 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:39 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Moose4

how long can it take to send guards to the parking lot entrance or post signs that say “turn back, no classes, campus shooting investigation in progress”.


2,227 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:45 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: GraniteStateConservative
the gunman, who looked asian

I guess that explains why they had the school reporter handcuffed---he was asian.

2,228 posted on 04/16/2007 2:26:50 PM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: DCPatriot

Was it a moslem terrorist? ID was “asian”?


2,229 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:02 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: AppyPappy

http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/home.html


2,230 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:02 PM PDT by meg88
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To: meg88

Tell them to show it to the cops at the college they could not give a discription of him at the news conference.


2,231 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:04 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..Doing real on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: oceanview

I’m still at work, so I haven’t seen the press conference, but I’ll still say a word in their defense. I know Dr. Steger, albeit just a little bit. He’s a university President so he should know something about public relations, but no one could be trained to handle the kind of situation that he and the others there have faced today.

He probably knew it was going to be a bad day first thing in the morning when he realized there was a murder in a residence hall. That doesn’t happen every day, probably not more than once every few years, but in a community of 26,000 people it does happen.

Nobody could have prepared him for what happened in Norris Hall just 200 feet from his office around 10am, because it has never happened before anywhere. He undoubtedly personally knows some of those who have been killed. In the last few hours, he’s had to oversee the evacuation of campus, relocate and set up a new office, gather as much information as he can about the situation, and probably report over the phone to the governor and numerous other state government officials.

It’s probably true that he isn’t really prepared to face the world media, but it’s also true that if he did not hold a press conference to share what little information he’s gathered, he would be criticized for that.

Just my opinion.


2,232 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:17 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: CedarDave

Oh, well, that makes sense, sort of. Altho, if they know he was in bed with the shooter’s girlfriend, they have to know who the shooter is. Otherwise, he’s just a guy who shot two people who were in bed.

susie


2,233 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:36 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
This guy, if muslim, might have killed his girlfriend when he learned she was hooking up with other guys, and then afterward, realizing his situation, and perhaps having already been flirting with the notion (hence the weaponry and ammo), decides the better route is to go out in an act of “jihad” by killing a bunch of Americans, thereby earning a pass (under the rules of the ROP) for his own failures to strictly adhere to requirements of the ROP.


That's some very intriguing speculation there!
2,234 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:38 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: VA40
Governor has declared State of Emergency? What is that about?

The state of emergency may allow the Governor to cut through the bureaucracy to quickly get all of the resources needed for this tragedy.

2,235 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:45 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Eastbound; Calpernia

your 734. They don’t call them sleeper cells for nothing. Va has ‘em.


2,236 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:50 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: silentknight

I get the feeling the ATTORNEY’s are scrambling to cover thier civily liable ass on this one....


2,237 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:52 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Danae

Quote

“:The Shooter is responsible for the shootings, NOT the College or the Police.
Personal RESPONSIBLITY People! Granted we live in an area of “Government should be responsible for everything” age, but that is BS. IMHO, BLAME THE SHOOTER! Unless you are Psychic or have a magic 8 ball, there is NO WAY you can predict this sort of random Chaos, let alone figure out a way to prevent acts of random chaos and violence!

The SHOOTER is responsible. No one else”

UMMMMMM NO. Responsibilty not only should be given to the shooter but IMCOMPETENCE could also be at fault here. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT IT WAS OKAY FOR THE COLLEGE NOT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT A SHOOTER WAS ON THE LOOSE? Are you nuts? There should be other people held responsible...not only the shooter. You are crazy if you think they handled this correctly. They all but admit they didn’t.


2,238 posted on 04/16/2007 2:27:56 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: oceanview

For getting people out, yeah, you can do that. Now what happens to the thousands of students coming onto campus? They end up milling around, and now you’ve got, eh, say 15-20 thousand students and faculty and staff standing outside. If you’re worried about random shooting, or even (God forbid) a real terrorist attack, that’s a much BETTER target than if they were “locked” inside buildings.

}:-)4


2,239 posted on 04/16/2007 2:28:01 PM PDT by Moose4 (What's the difference between Mike Nifong and toast? Right about now, nothing.)
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To: meg88

Oh dear, any word by Steve if his son is safe???


2,240 posted on 04/16/2007 2:28:05 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..Doing real on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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