Posted on 04/16/2007 11:42:27 PM PDT by ribosomal soup
A CHINESE man is suspected of being the gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech yesterday, China News Service reported today.
US police are looking into the background of the man, who entered the country with a student visa last year, the report filed from New York said, quoting a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 24-year-old Chinese man arrived in San Francisco on August 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the report said.
So far there is no official statement of the suspect's identity or nationality.
A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warned students.
The bloodbath ended yesterday with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus situated in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy.
A White House spokesman said President George W. Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.
"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
Investigators gave no motive for the attack. The gunman's name was not immediately released and it was not known if he was a student.
Two people died in a dorm room, and 31 others were killed in Norris Hall, including the gunman, who put a bullet in his head. At least 15 more people were wounded, some seriously.
Erin Sheehan, who was in the German class, told the student newspaper, the Collegiate Times, that she was one of only four of the approximately two dozen people in the class to walk out of the room. The rest were dead or wounded, she said.
"It seemed so strange," Sheehan said. The gunman "peeked in twice, earlier in the lesson, like he was looking for someone, somebody, before he started shooting.
"But then we all heard something like drilling in the walls, and someone thought they sounded like bullets. That's when we blockaded the door to stop anyone from coming in."
She said the gunman "was just a normal-looking kid, Asian, but he had on a Boy Scout-type outfit. He wore a tan button-up vest and a black vest -- maybe it was for ammo or something."
So people here on student visas can get guns legally or were these weapons and the guy already criminal before he went nuts and killed all those people?
He would fall under the provision of the Second Amendment where it states, “The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“The People” includes citizens as well as non citizens.
Just seems you could never do a great background check on someone from another country.
The Bill of Rights and the Constitution applies to all persons in the country except where the word “citizen” is used which is only in the Constitution.
As for background checks, I am not all that sure I want people in DC Democrat or Republican deciding what may cause any of us to fail a background check.
Oh hell, it doesn’t matter. He was just some fella from a crappy country tryin’ to better his life, doin’ a job an American wouldn’t do, takin’ up a place at college that an American didn’t want.
As a matter of fact I believe I heard Whorealdo half-assedly blame us by saying (I’m paraphrasin’)that he was just a poor bloke from a foreign country that was just never made comfortable in our culture. We didn’t do enough to make him feel at home. Nobody held his hand and sung kumbaya........
I don’t know the law, but I would question at least a little having guests to our country being given the rights to buy deadly weapons that require licenses.
True, had he not come in contact with the evil SUV, none of this would have probably happened.
end student visas........at least for a couple of years
let um wait , let um sweat .
We need to send a message
“He would fall under the provision of the Second Amendment where it states, “The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“The People” includes citizens as well as non citizens.”
Wrong. The ‘people’ initially meant white people. Not till the fourteenth amendment did it evenly apply beyond that status. But even to this day, we afford people particular rights in this country ie to say they don’t all have them.
And when those non-citizens (e.g the terrorists) at Guatanamo cuba want a form of Constitutional representation....they’re not afforded those rights (we all have), because they technically don’t have them.
“Whorealdo”
LOL. He really said something like that!? He needs to shut-up. People need to adapt to America...not the other way around.
The 14th cleared things up by extending protections to all persons.
And now even when an illegal alien is arrested he is read his Miranda Rights and is afforded all the protections of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Manchurian Candidate?
were supposed to be European-descended, property-owning men.
Yeah pretty much. Like I said, I was paraphrasing but that was the gist.
I’m just amazed that this mass murder wasn’t the result of yet another crazed white Christian. The media keeps telling me these are the most dangerous and diabolical people on Earth. /s
The people spoken of in the Constituiotn are citizens of the US only. Foreigners were only given rights piecemeal by Congress and the SCOTUS, but are never considered as the people of the US. That's liberal and UN mumbo jumbo.
Only a VISA that gave immigrant status would allow the person to possess a gun. A student VISA is NG unless the person was here to hunt, or had permission from the Justice Dept. Foreign students, vacationers and temp workers should not be allowed to possess weapons.
end student visas........at least for a couple of years
If nothing else tighten the restriction on Chinese students. In case it’s been forgotten:
On 1 NOV 1991, a Chinese physics student killed 5 and wounded another at the U of Iowa. His motive was he didn’t recieve an award. The winner was one of those killed.
O’reilly will have a field day with this.
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