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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: dawn53

good point.


3,761 posted on 04/16/2007 7:57:06 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
How in the hell could they or should they have known he was going to show up in classrooms 2 hrs later and execute people. Please give it a rest.

You miss the point. No one thought that. But a murderer was loose on the campus. Typically police officers try to find the suspect while keeping nearby folks out of harms way. It's called "Shelter-in Place." And to do it successfully, you need to spread the word ASAP.

3,762 posted on 04/16/2007 7:57:23 PM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: dawn53

“thought they said his last name was Barghouti.”

There is also the author, Mourid Barghouti. I read his book a few years ago. I guess he is *kinda* famous.


3,763 posted on 04/16/2007 7:57:25 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: Jedidah
"Your attempt to link guns to my screenname is just plain weird"

Solomon was more of the "Peace Through Superior Firepower" mold. Wise dude, I'd say.

And no, I didn't need to do homework.

"She did a good job, didn’t she (So did I.) ;-)"

Good on ya'.

3,764 posted on 04/16/2007 7:57:27 PM PDT by Enosh (†)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

not for long.


3,765 posted on 04/16/2007 7:57:50 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: JennysCool

Who better to defend him then conservatives here on FreeRepublic who have vetted his story?


3,766 posted on 04/16/2007 7:58:35 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: bray
This story is getting stranger by the minute. Maybe he had a shotgun or something to blow his head off?? The poor police officers and families.

I don't think so. The boom was LE blowing the chained door open to gain access to Norris.

3,767 posted on 04/16/2007 7:58:53 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Windcatcher

Time to check the phone records and the families credit cards/banking.

Can we still do that? s/


3,768 posted on 04/16/2007 7:59:04 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray for Tony Snow, Liz Edwards, cancer patients, their families and support.)
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To: Jrabbit
I never thought the campus should be shut down or locked down...I blame the killer for this.

I agree. "Lock Down" is a control concept that naive bureaucrats who administer educational systems have borrowed from prison management. IMO, there should have been a "CALL to ARMS" which after which 5,000 armed citizens would have cornered this vermin and put hundreds of rounds of ammunition into his body, thus ending the assault (as well as his use of much needed oxygen).

3,769 posted on 04/16/2007 7:59:08 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Like I said, pretty common name in Palestine. Shame on Blitzer for only telling us his family was “well known,”...he should have elaborated, LOL.


3,770 posted on 04/16/2007 7:59:27 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Student visa people are not permanent residents, though. In fact, the student visas are not supposed to segue into permanent status, even though they aren’t tracked as well as they should be.


3,771 posted on 04/16/2007 8:00:48 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Aikonaa

How did you find that? The user that posted it has a link to in his profile: http://www.roanokefirearms.com/


3,772 posted on 04/16/2007 8:01:09 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: silentknight

re:
You think? lol Not very bright posting all those images of his guns. Certainly in this day and age. Pretty dumb.

Almost too dumb.


3,773 posted on 04/16/2007 8:01:26 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray for Tony Snow, Liz Edwards, cancer patients, their families and support.)
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To: oceanview
not for long.

Agreed. If it turns out that the guns were purchased by a green card holder, I predict a revision in federal law removing this privilege in the near future.

3,774 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:02 PM PDT by Aikonaa
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To: All
Channel 10 Roanoke still streaming live.

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3,775 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:09 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Dog Gone

Probably so . . .

At present . . .

for those poorly informed; porrly read up on the topic.

Evetually, my crazy statements will be remembered and be helpful in a variety of situations. I don’t care how crazy folks think I am now . . . I just hope that something I say will be used of Holy Spirit reminding folks however many weeks, months, years hence

AND HELPING THEM TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IN THE MUCH GREATER CRISES THEN.

So, go ahead, ridicule, it’s the custom hereabouts.

Just indicates the relative degrees of lack of awareness fo the scope, depth, breadth of the facts.

Of course, if you’ve studied it for 45 years, read the many thousands of pages of docs and talked directly to such folks as I have . . . then perhaps we could eventually have a more rational discussion.


3,776 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:18 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: HockeyPop
appeared there may have been 30-40 buildings. When the shooting began where were the cops? Who was storming the building? Waiting for instructions and back up?

There are over a hundred buildings on campus.

3,777 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:24 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Windcatcher

To not check out this attack as terrorist would be reckless. Too well organized to be an act of passion.

This was a military type attack that was meant to do the maximum damage with minimal risk. The bomb threats etc is far too professional. This guy was a trained killer.

Pray for W and Va Tech


3,778 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:33 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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To: ohioWfan

I know,,This is a Real Cross to Bear,,...for every one of us,,don’t know what else to say,,this is different...


3,779 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:33 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: dawn53

Ya. He should have told us the dang names. LOL. We could post pictures of them and that livejournal dude all night.


3,780 posted on 04/16/2007 8:02:39 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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