At least 4 are in critical condition.
Prayers for ALCON
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Someone I know has a son at VA Tech. Still waiting for word about him or from him.
Anyway...prayers for the victims and their families and for those also awaiting word on their loved ones.
Local NBC 10 is still reporting 22 dead.
Other news are reporting 32 dead.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
-- George WashingtonThe best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
--Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
-- Richard Henry Lee[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. ... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived the use of them.
-- Thomas PaineIt is your responsibility to protect yourself and your family from criminals. If you rely on the government for protection, you are going to be at least disappointed and at worst injured or killed.
-- from A Message from the Sheriff on the back of a victims' rights pamphlet
by five-term San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters (L) of Telluride, ColoradoLaws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
-- Thomas Jefferson, "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776,
quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764.
What’s the holdup on releasing the name of the shooter, anyhoo? Are we having trouble lining up enough Gulfstreams to fly his family back home to Saudi Arabia?
Funny how we never heard of someone walking into a school and start shooting.
Does anyone know what kind of fire arm was used? I’m thinking of buying one for home protection and what ever this guy used sounds like the perfect weapon for me. Of course mine would be used for defense.
I wish there could be a simple answer. When the sheepdog is de-fanged and de-clawed, the sheep get slaughtered when the wolf arrives.
You might be interested in this Google map of mosques near the VT campus...
Dammit all to hell! The gun-controllers are determined for us to die. If only 5% or 10% of the general population were armed this kind of thing would never happen. All those kids with no way of defending themselves...
Have they for sure identified the gun(s) involved? I have a hard time believing a 9mm could be used to kill that many people. Plus the cell phone clip of the shots made them sound much deeper than a 9mm report.
And in the country of the disarmed, the homicidal dip-shit with a handgun is king.
What a freakin' tragedy...
Witness on Sean Hannitty show said he heard 40 to 50 shots
Ugh. Bat Jack was just on Fox News blaming all of this on video games, again.
Haven’t read the details yet. Rush was saying that the guy was “looking for his girlfriend” or some such thing. And that he lined them up and shot them...? Is that true?
Or was that all speculation?
Thanks to Free Republic for being able to provide high-intensity interactive coverage of important events. It is one of two sites I depend on for information under those circumstances and it is about to be the only one. The other is (was?) Little Green Footballs but it has overloaded and gone south today, something it does literally every day lately and especially when the hits start coming in. It is therefore worthless for keeping up with any kind of fast-developing news.
