Posted on 04/17/2007 6:39:31 AM PDT by starlifter
Va. Tech Gunman Named
By Michael Shear and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 9:36 AM
Virginia Tech officials today identified the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and then himself on the Blacksburg campus yesterday as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui of Centreville.
Cho was a South Korean native who had immigrated to this country, the university announced on its Web site this morning. He was a senior majoring in English, and lived in a dorm on campus, officials said.
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I don’t know of a firearm that CAN’T be ‘fitted with a laser aim point’.
Its possible.
I think its also interesting the guy choose a Glock.
Not exactly a cheap ‘throw away’ gun to be sure.
Well yeah, obviously, but doesn't it seem a bit odd that a person who went on a murderous rampage would have the receipt for the gun which he used to kill thirty three people on him? Do you expect that backpack to contain the receipts of every purchase he made in the last sixty days or so?
"Better keep this receipt in case I want to return this baby after I kill a few people . . . "
You have obviously never seen the stuff that ends up in my backpacks, knitting bags, purses, or pockets. Receipts, old medicine bottles, pens, pins, knives, books that I’ve been looking for for years, escaped student papers, handouts for classes that escaped, rough drafts of articles I’m working on, printouts of things for the articles I’m working on, lost stitch holders, candybar wrappers, herbal supplements...bills. Stray staples. Missing knitting needles. It’s quite an interesting study.
Maybe I AM crazy....
yea I know ... we are so screwed
They were thinking he was someone else at first, who came from China.
Accuracy is lost in pistol use by shooter technique. Accuracy is all maintained in shooter follow through, trigger pull, recovery from recoil and target acquisition/familiarity. No sighting system can correct all those elements, it still requires a high level of skill to maintain all of those strict disciplines.
Your shopping receipts and a mass murderer's gun receipts aren't even slightly analogous.
Reminds me a little of the global warming folks just salivating over the prospect of a 20’ ocean rise.
The real threat of Islamic terrorism isn't analogous with the fake threat of global warming, either.
Ok, so I guess the question is how long has he been in the states?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
You evidently don’t use your backpacks as places to store stuff just to store stuff.
OMG!!! What have you done??!!
They are going to get fired up again!
Run away!!!!!!
Apparently, the fella who legally sold the shooter the gun has been interviewed:
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“Take this for what it’s worth:
“Well, I’m screwed. They found a receipt in the gunman’s pocket indicating that he bought the gun from me in March. ATF is at my shop right now. See you later, I’m on my way to the shop right now.”
[...]”Call BS all you like, but I just spent the last several hours with 3 ATF agents. I saw the shooter’s picture. I know his name and home address. I also know that he used a Glock 19 and a Walther P-22. The serial number was ground off the Glock.
Why would he do that and still keep the receipt in his pocket from when he bought the gun?
ATF told me that they are going to keep this low-key and not report this to the tv news. However, they cautioned that it will leak out eventually, and that I should be ready to deal with CNN, FOX, etc. My 32 camera surveillance system recorded the event 35 days ago. This is a digital system that only keeps the video for 35 days. We got lucky. By the way, the paperwork for Mr. Cho was perfect, thank God.”
When some noted that the guy has been in country for less then a year he replied:
Mr. Cho had proof of Virginia residency, checkbook (for a second ID), and his green card(which is, of course, not green). That is all he needed to purchase a handgun.”
http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/04/16/massacre-in-virginia/
Ya...that’s the first thing I thought. And he says he has a video of the purchase....I wonder when that will be released.
With a few days shooting clay birds I went from never using a shotgun to hitting 7 out of ten. If you have an eye for it, it doesn’t take long.
They probably did not have room to be near each other. Did you see Sheppard Smith pan around and show the huge number of satellite trucks at VT this morning? There must have been several hundred of them. I have never seen such a press frenzy. The Susan Smith trial in Union, SC, appalled me, and that was just a couple of dozen trucks. It really is an unseemly spectacle. The reporters had the students outnumbered! The press has no respect for the crime scene or the victims. They are like buzzards on a carcass!
They all joined together to criticize the VT administration for not shutting down the school earlier. They had no more information about why they did that than they have about the color of Adam’s house cat, but they could instantly judge their actions as negligent. Give me a break! They have to play the blame game - they are conditioned by Katrina and War coverage to play the blame game. I have no doubt they will find a way to blame George Bush before the day is out.
I don’t know why I watch those Bozos any more. Maybe I will just stick to FreeRepublic.
Non-political hubby just told me, as I was talking about the discussion going on, “Today’s the day we renew our NRA membership.”
He knows what’s coming next.
Northern Virginia has many Asian gangs and also Hipsanic.
From wikipedia:
“The Bath School disaster is the name given to not one (as the name implies) but three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, USA, on May 18, 1927, which killed 45 people and injured 58. Most of the victims were children in second to sixth grades attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history. The perpetrator was school board member Andrew Kehoe, who was upset by a property tax that had been levied to fund the construction of the school building. He blamed the additional tax for financial hardships which led to foreclosure proceedings against his farm. These events apparently provoked Kehoe to plan his attack.
On the morning of May 18, Kehoe first killed his wife and then set his farm buildings on fire. As fire fighters arrived at the farm, an explosion devastated the north wing of the school building, killing many of the people inside. Kehoe used a detonator to ignite dynamite and hundreds of pounds of pyrotol which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and detonated a bomb inside his shrapnel-filled vehicle, killing himself and the school superintendent, and killing and injuring several others. During the rescue efforts, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol planted throughout the basement of the school’s south wing.”
America invented the homicide bomber. How about that?
This one is THE largest shooting incident in our nation’s history. Over 50 casualties in just a short while, with over 50% of the victims listed as killed. Usually, even in WAR, it is the other way around.
Care to elaborate as to why someone with a few days of supposed self training, can achieve such a high ratio?
How about the guy who killed 24 people in 15 minutes in the Luby's Cafeteria in Texas back in 1991?
This is not exactly Delta Force stuff.
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