Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

[LexHoskin]

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

[Mo1]

I googled Ismail Ax ... not sure exactly what it means ... but the hits that came up are interesting

[bray]

Where did you find he signed it Ishmael X??

Pray for W and Va Tech

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

I guess the whole “disgruntled guy that went on a killing spree because his girlfriend dumped him” story is falling apart.

[null and void]

I learned this morning that a classmate of my son lost her father. She’s 11.

Damm.

[Moose4]

Stories are coming out now that he wrote a long, rambling, incoherent note and signed it “Ismail Ax”. Apparently Cho was a nutburger, Chicago Tribune is reporting that he’d been stalking women and had set a fire in his dorm room. Sounds like he might’ve been mentally ill or heading that way in a hurry.

}:-)4

[bk1000]

“Where did you find he signed it Ishmael X??”

The guy on Fox News just read it. Maybe 5 minutes ago.

[dawn53]

Ishmael...as in Isaac and Ishmael?

X...as in Malcolm X?

That’s weird!

[bk1000]

Now they’re saying it said “Ismail Ax” . They’re also suggesting he was ronery.

[ohioWfan]

Perhaps you’re right. Bad joke, indeed......

[bray]

Mentally ill or Mooselip, not much difference. Just like the disturbed kid in Salt Lake City. How long was he in the Country?? Like to know if there was a connection between him and Islam.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Swanks]

Per FOX: Signs note he left behind: “Ismail Ax” [’ho boy]. Also rails against rishc kids [Wonder where in the political spectrum he gets that from].

[Roccus]

On more than one occassion while growing up (and well into my 50’s) my father asked me, “What are you...retarded?” Parents always think that they “know better” than their children. I’m just an old bachelor, but I knew immediately what was being conveyed in those posts. However, with all the PC crap that we are innundated with by the language police, I can also see where you were coming from.

Sometimes we just get caught up in the moment.

[bk1000]

“How long was he in the Country?? “

Fox said since he was 8 years old.

[tiredoflaundry]

Everything is kewl...........No problems.

[null and void]

He is 43 years old. He is unmarried.

Would you marry him???

[af_vet_rr]

Maybe you are right. This whole thing has really rattled me though.

I think VT should build a monument to Liviu Librescu.

I think what happens is, people don't want to believe that a human being is capable of doing such things. I'm not saying this about you, but I heard Dr. Phil pulling out the tired old "videogames made this happen" argument. No Dr. Phil a person did it.

Again, not saying this about you, but when people blame guns, movies, games, etc., they are trying to dehumanize it. Maybe it's easier for us to cope with if we don't consider that a person did it, but instead that they played video games or owned guns and that caused it.

The worst school killing in US history happened 80 years ago - The Bath School disaster. There were no videogames, R-rated movies all over, and gun ownership was common, and dynamite was used.

[ohioWfan]

It was a bad time for such a moment.

btw, tell your friend, null that it's never nice to tell someone else her parents think she's retarded.

That's the last I'll say on the subject, since the comment was highly inappropriate and tasteless for this thread in the first place, and I don't want to further perpetuate its discussion..

[Roccus]

You’re my barmaid!!! I protect my supply!!!;)

[ohioWfan]

:)

[RecallMoran]

I have 3 sons: 15, 12, and 3. The 3 year old often is more mature than the 15 year old. In fact, I just got a $178 in over charges from his text messaging a girl out of plan. I plan on asking him if he is retarded as soon as school is out.

A boy from one of the Norris classrooms was on the local DC news last night. He crouched behind a desk. His friend next to him was shot in the arm. He thought he was going to die. He said he was thinking about how his death would affect his mom. I began to weep. I went and hugged my baby, my 12 year old (he complained of being sqashed) and Mr. Can’t grasp a calling plan. He asked if the guy lived. I said no, he died that’s why he’s on the news talking about it.

I understood the comment.