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22 dead in Va. Tech shooting rampage
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/?GT1=9246 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 9:34:30 AM PDT by Shade2

BREAKING NEWS MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: less than 1 minute ago BLACKSBURG, Va. - At least 22 people were killed Monday in a shooting rampage on the Virginia Tech campus, police said. They said the gunman was among the dead.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; blacksburg; crime; shooting; vatech; virginia; virginiatech
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To: Shade2
People are trained to cower when confronted with evil.

What this culture needs are a few more members of the “let’s roll” breed.

21 posted on 04/16/2007 9:46:24 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

“It will be interesting to see info on the perp. Baptists again?”

My thoughts exactly!


22 posted on 04/16/2007 9:46:28 AM PDT by mr_hammer (Show me just what liberalism brought that was new, and there you will find things evil & inhuman)
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To: wtc911

From FOX:

The students and faculty were barricading themselves in their classrooms after what one person described as an Asian student wearing a vest opened fire.

I’m wondering if this is part of Jemaiah Islamaya (sp) threat to go after infidels?.......


23 posted on 04/16/2007 9:46:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
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To: Shade2

It’s a darned good thing it is a “gun free” zone. Can you imagine how many more would have been killed if guns were “legal” there?


24 posted on 04/16/2007 9:46:45 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Shade2
See the (very active) other thread at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818131/posts
25 posted on 04/16/2007 9:46:47 AM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: Deano

The gun-free school zone sign should have been in bigger and bold font.


26 posted on 04/16/2007 9:47:00 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Shade2

Gunperson, not gunman.


27 posted on 04/16/2007 9:47:23 AM PDT by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - W? No, 'twas Sen. Hillary 9/12/01)
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To: OldFriend
Next up a rehash of Colombine and all the other school shootings.

Or another movie for Michael Moore to do.

28 posted on 04/16/2007 9:47:23 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: Shade2

Leave it to WABC radio. Going on and on about the bomb threats.

Has no updated information, simply babbling.


29 posted on 04/16/2007 9:47:34 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: Long Island Pete

Now WABC jackass criticizing the univeristy. Suggesting they’ve done everything wrong.

Makes me ill.


30 posted on 04/16/2007 9:49:15 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: Shade2

The gunman lined people up and shot them execution style reportedly. Asian in appearance, heavily armed.


31 posted on 04/16/2007 9:50:27 AM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: Long Island Pete

A lot longer than for them to pass a total gun ban, I can hear the drips from the bleeding hearts now.
angel


32 posted on 04/16/2007 9:50:59 AM PDT by mbiangel (The Devil died and they elected Algore Prince of the Air!)
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To: I still care
Actually it should be the opposite: If all of them were armed only a few or none would be dead because the shooter would have been taken out early.
33 posted on 04/16/2007 9:51:11 AM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: Shade2


The university reported shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. local time at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.


The map shows a Ambler Johnston building, not a West Ambler Johnston, but I think they're the same.
34 posted on 04/16/2007 9:52:32 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: OldFriend

I think we should be rehashing this. What it demonstrates is that when law abiding people are not allowed to arm themselves, criminals can shoot us like fish in a barrel.

Sorry to all those affected negatively by such a harsh statement but this is a case where the truth hurts.

Simply stated, government restrictions played a major cause in many deaths today. I just heard a fella on FOX say, this person had to be armed with an “automatic” weapon because you cannot shoot that many people with a revolver. CRIPES!

This insanity has got to STOP. An armed public would have saved many people’s lives and it is time our government answer for their gun control policy failures!


35 posted on 04/16/2007 9:53:31 AM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: Shade2

Did the police do another Columbine, hudling outside, following “procedure” while the gunman rampaged inside?


36 posted on 04/16/2007 9:54:04 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: Shade2

Those poor people. All they could do was cower and beg for their lives as the shooter wandered along, shooting anyone he wanted to, because the ******* liberals refused to let them have guns for self-defense. The university should be held responsible for the deaths.


37 posted on 04/16/2007 9:54:31 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Shade2

Just terrible. Heard on the news that the gunman left the classroom, then tried to reenter the room. The students barricaded the door with their bodies and he started shooting through the door.

Prayers for all the victims who were shot dead or wounded.


38 posted on 04/16/2007 9:54:37 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama
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To: Shade2

Watch out! Here comes the Gun Control stampede!!!!


39 posted on 04/16/2007 9:54:53 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Kenton
My nephew works on campus and is there as of 30 minutes ago. I just spoke to his dad and the word in the area is that 20+ are dead and 28 or more are wounded. The local hospital is overwhelmed and they've been taking patients to Radford, Pulaski, Salem and Roanoke.

This is just awful.

40 posted on 04/16/2007 9:55:06 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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