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To: 11th_VA
<> Unfortunately, they all missed.
3 posted on 04/16/2007 12:27:41 PM PDT by newroark
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To: newroark
Its rather cathartic knowing they tried ..
4 posted on 04/16/2007 12:29:15 PM PDT by 11th_VA (VRWC Local 774)
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They kept him plenty busy and destroyed his ability to shoot unmolested. If you have even been up on that tower, you know what a perfect place that is for an ambush.


5 posted on 04/16/2007 12:29:41 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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But they pinned the shooter down.

“Gun free zones” are future killing zones for ROPers.

The ROP watch the news. They’ll copy Virginia Tech and do it on 20 “gun free” campuses all at the same time.

Low hanging fruit.


6 posted on 04/16/2007 12:30:58 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: newroark
Unfortunately, they all missed.

They failed to kill Whitman.

They suceeded in saving lives.

Had Whitman continued shooting completely unmolested, there would have been more corpses to bury.

13 posted on 04/16/2007 12:51:05 PM PDT by wideawake
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If I can recall the incident, one of the shots from the armed citizens hit the primary rifle he was using and put it out of action. I think he still had an M1 carbine and shotgun.


24 posted on 04/16/2007 3:02:45 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: newroark
Actually, they did not really.

There was chipped concrete around his original shooting position, some chunks of which may have partially blinded him.

He moved to the other side of the tower where his target opportunities were fewer.

Best regards,

28 posted on 04/16/2007 3:51:59 PM PDT by Copernicus (A Constitutional Republic revolves around Sovereign Citizens, not citizens around government.)
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To: newroark
No what they did was keep Whitman down and stopped him from killing more people.

Texas Monthly did a great article on this in 2001...explaining how the citizens helped to stop the killing.

29 posted on 04/16/2007 3:55:44 PM 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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