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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: meg88
A man of Eurasian decent perhaps?....No, He's not very decent at all..........
41 posted on 04/16/2007 9:55:38 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

School security needs to be beefed up everywhere.

Related articles: http://www.schoolsecurity.org/terrorist_response.html

and: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=724891

Prayers for all at Virginia Tech.


42 posted on 04/16/2007 9:55:43 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: rjp2005

Has the flak jacket/kevlar on the shooter been confirmed?


43 posted on 04/16/2007 9:56:19 AM PDT by meg88
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To: Shade2
My second thought is was he a Muslim?
44 posted on 04/16/2007 9:56:27 AM PDT by mountainlyons (Hard core conservative)
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To: I still care

The way to turn it back on the Dems is ask:”Why did the police take so long to respond?”


45 posted on 04/16/2007 9:56:28 AM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: P-40

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”

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clueless IDIOTS.


46 posted on 04/16/2007 9:56:47 AM 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: Shade2
Oh my. My husband and son were there two weeks ago for a campus visit. It is my son's first choice so far.

CC&E

47 posted on 04/16/2007 9:58:00 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (So many books, so little time!)
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To: pgkdan
Prayers for your nephews safety.

At times like these we all feel so helpless. We pray for the safety of all, knowing that 22 have been killed.

This is just an outrage.

48 posted on 04/16/2007 9:58:25 AM PDT by sofaman ("There will only be peace in Israel when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews")
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

You can bet your last dime that if this guy turns out to be a muslim, it’ll disappear from the news faster than Don Imus’ job...........


49 posted on 04/16/2007 9:58:55 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: Red Badger

How many Asians carry kevlar around the house?


50 posted on 04/16/2007 9:59:35 AM PDT by meg88
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To: wtc911

Eyewitness on FOX said one ‘Asian guy’, so probably a student who snapped. But, with this kind of carnage by one shooter imagine a planned, multi-shooter - bomber attack. There is a Beslan waiting down the road for us.
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I suspect there will be multiple Beslen’s here either at the same time or within hours or days of each other. I expect 3-5 at the same time. Will see. No inside info. Just collecting puzzle pieces from the news and postulating.


51 posted on 04/16/2007 10:00:20 AM 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: lafroste
I wonder what the perp was like.

"He seemed like such a nice boy."

52 posted on 04/16/2007 10:01:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Red Badger
22? My God, what went wrong over there!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!...........

Unarmed Victim Zone. Worked just as designed.

53 posted on 04/16/2007 10:01:18 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: pgkdan

They are now saying 25 dead.


54 posted on 04/16/2007 10:01:39 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Shade2
An armed off duty police officer shopping with his wife at an upscale mall in Salt Lake City averted a similar incident just a few weeks back. He traded gunfire with the killer, essentially corralling him, until on duty police officers arrived. The gunman was shot dead.
It's tragic this gunman wasn't contained much sooner ... I think the campus police will be in for a huge shakeup ... in fact, some of the police responding (from what I saw on FOX) looked pathetic. Particularly the fat assed, knock kneed female that jumped out of the police cruiser and waddled off, actually I think she was attempting to run.
55 posted on 04/16/2007 10:01:46 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Shade2

Holy crap. And I’m not trying to be funny. Holy crap.


56 posted on 04/16/2007 10:01:58 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Red Badger

Yup. I’d bet my last dime it won’t show up in the MSM but some FReeper will find it.


57 posted on 04/16/2007 10:02:09 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Anti Islam and a Global Warming denier - piss on Islam)
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To: Long Island Pete
And if law abiding citizens were allowed to carry guns, 22 people may be alive today.

I believe Virginia is a conceal carry state.

At the very least, campus security should be something other than a rent-a-cop.

Very sad.

58 posted on 04/16/2007 10:02:13 AM PDT by evad
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To: Shade2

And now the Fed.gov and gun-controllers will try to disarm everyone who DIDN’T do it! Thanks a lot, Fed.gov!


59 posted on 04/16/2007 10:02:20 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Just sayin
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.

That's what I have always said about school lock downs. When I taught, I thought there was no way I would sit in a classroom with an armed nutter in the building. We were on the second floor, but there was a bank so it wouldn't have been a far jump. I always thought I would try to get my kids out the window and into the woods 35 feet away for cover if anything crazy happened. I always thought I would rather be fired and alive with the students than remembered as a great teacher who always followed the rules at my funeral...

60 posted on 04/16/2007 10:02:32 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama
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