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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: TomGuy

That’s the first I heard of that also


2,341 posted on 04/16/2007 2:41:43 PM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: jdm

Acting on advance information is a TOTALLY different ball of wax. A bomb threat is NOT a lone gunman making random and utterly unpredictable choices. Look, given the time between shootings, he could have gone to a retirement home and done his evil there! There is NO WAY anyone could have predicted HIS choices.


2,342 posted on 04/16/2007 2:41:48 PM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: cammie
A challenge for CSI.
2,343 posted on 04/16/2007 2:41:53 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: milford421

Why don’t they use tear gas? Not Putin grade but tear gas? They just waited outside, the cops.


2,344 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:05 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: Cyclopean Squid
But the presence of a gun creates, in and of itself, the danger of gunfire.

Is that so? All of my guns must be broken then. None of them just sitting on a table create any gunfire.

2,345 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:12 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org ? Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: CedarDave

Ryan Clark, 1st victim. Set to graduate this spring


2,346 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:18 PM PDT by meg88
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To: HockeyPop

I was on campus during an elementary school lockdown and never felt so helpless in my life. A classroom full of kids with a full wall of windows and only two adults in the room, the teacher and me. All I could do was try to think of a way for my death to make a difference.


2,347 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:20 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: AliVeritas

Sorry it’s in the first 750 posts of one of these threads. I think this one.

Have to get to class. Sorry.


2,348 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:21 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: Cyclopean Squid
Cyclopean Squid: Incidentally, in order to properly maintain their sovereignty, should the People through militias be able to have tanks and aircraft? Surface to Air Missiles? Grenades? Because in order to properly challenge governmental authority they would need it. Those are not really necessary to fight an occupying power. Small arms do ok it seems.
2,349 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:44 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Centurion2000

I know...but that might be where the asian reports all came from.


2,350 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:46 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Lazamataz

So how, then, to succeed in defending against a rogue government? It doesn’t seem very likely given those limitations.


2,351 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:47 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (A Day Late and a Dollar Short)
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To: KC Burke

<< in the pc world is there any description that tells us less than “asian”? >>

In the liberal future, all perps other than white males will be described as “earthlings” because anything more descriptive will be deemed offensive.


2,352 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:49 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Cyclopean Squid
"Incidentally, in order to properly maintain their sovereignty, should the People through militias be able to have tanks and aircraft? Surface to Air Missiles? Grenades? Because in order to properly challenge governmental authority they would need it."

I'm a Class III owner. Maybe you should check out what is legal to own before asking silly questions. Then do a search on how many Class III weapons have ever been used in a violent act of crime since the Dept of Treasury has been keeping records on us for over half a century.

"Should we allow arms to be used in political assassination?"

Clarify your question. "Political assassination" of elected officials in this country would be a big "No-No". However... political assassinations of threats to our nation from outside our boarders could have prevented some needless death and destruction, but Clinton couldn't pull the trigger on OBL so we got 9-11.

" What else would the right to bear arms be good for, if their purpose is to keep the power over the state?"

You really need to look up some quotes from our founding fathers regarding the RKBA.
2,353 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:50 PM PDT by DocRock (What would Solomon Do?)
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To: meg88

From Channel 10, all Montgomery County, VA, schools will be closed tomorrow.

Also, VT students calling in. Around 9:30, some professor stopped some young women going to class in Norris and told them about the earlier shooting and suggested they leave campus. They did and likely saved themselves.


2,354 posted on 04/16/2007 2:42:56 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: DocRock

INDEED.
THX.


2,355 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:05 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: mewzilla
if they couldn't get a usable set of prints off the guy, and the labels were cut out of his clothes, stuff like that, I'd be tending more toward a terrorism angle and less about a student/boyfriend/professor/TA going postal.

And if the shooter really shot himself instead of being taken down by LEO it lends credence to a programmed assault.

2,356 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:07 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: DCPatriot
"I would scrub the background of the Middle Eastern kid who shot the video on his cellphone."

You read my mind. This is the type of garbage the muzzies would pull.

2,357 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:12 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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To: floriduh voter

Before you blame Va Tech, think of the impossibility of the situation. I cannot imagine how you lockdown a University.

Pray for W and Va Tech


2,358 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:20 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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To: oceanview
the press is doing the right thing. the natural inclination of the power structure is to hide the truth, push off responsibility.

I don't think so. Knowing the press's propensity to spread rumors as 'truth', as they did with the situation in New Orleans with Katrina, I'd rather let the police get their investigation done and get the real story. As most police officers will tell you, 'eyewitness accounts' are very often wrong, and even more so in such a fast moving and volatile situation.

2,359 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:36 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Halls

Oh, my, that does sound bad. My prayers go out for all of the families.
susie


2,360 posted on 04/16/2007 2:43:41 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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