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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True. No way to predict this. There was also this guy in Minnesota (Cambodian?) who shot down innocent people. We should cut down on the number of immigrants.
They were THEORETICALLY able to dodge, whether they actually did so is another question. A lot of people probably froze.
That accuracy with handguns isn't nearly as high in real life as it is in the movies or on TV is a valid point, but in this specific instance again the claim that you really need extraordinary training to accomplish this doesn't seem valid to me.
Resident alien needs 90 days, not one year, to buy a firearm.
The gunstore-owner comments originally appeared on www.black-rifles.com, which has been down for a few hours now.
Agreed. What disturbs me, in this case and in others, is the apparent DESIRE for it to be terrorism. The utter glee some get from finding obscure crumbs and linking them to terrorism in rather fantastic ways. I hate to see our important fight marginalized by some spurious comments.
I haven't seen any definitive reports yet on how close he was to his victims, but it's not that hard to hit a person-sized target from only a few feet away.
You have made the best point I’ve heard. Prayers for the victim and I’m not blaming them but where has bravery gone? Why did they just stand there like sheep?
The police department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on Tuesday morning identified the gunman who killed at least 30 people Monday as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old undergraduate senior majoring in English.
Cho, who is thought to have killed himself at the end of the shooting rampage in Norris Hall, was a South Korean national and resident alien from Centreville, Va., about 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. in Fairfax County and adjacent to Dulles Airport and the Manassas Civil War battlefields.
Police said at least one of the two pistols found with Cho’s body was also used in the killings of a man and a woman, also both undergraduates, in the West Ambler Johnston residence hall earlier Monday morning.
“It’s certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases,” said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police.
Flaherty stressed that authorities had not firmly established the links betweent the two incidents.
Cho himself was a resident of Harper Hall, another on-campus residence hall. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said he had moved to the United States as a child but maintained his Korean citizenship.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266523,00.html
Last night I yelled at the TV and turned it off after Greta Van Spitoon said “worste school shooting ever” for the 300th time. Geraldo was pissing me off too. Also, the fact that Geraldo, Spitoon, and that other fruitcake were only 100 yards away from each other and kept cutting back and forth to have a conversation was annoying. Why couldn’t they all be in the same room. Why have one on the drillfield, one in Burrus Hall and one at the Hotel. I kept waiting for them to get a response from Howard K Stern.
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The worst was Lou Dobbs. After a reporter carefully explained the reasons for the decision not to warn and/or to lock down or otherwise secure the campus after the first shooting, Dobbs had to say something like, “this is a decision they will regret.” Gee, thanks, Dobbs. And I suppose if you had been in charge, given what you knew at the time, would you have made a different decision?
I used to like Dobbs, but he’s become a full-time shill for the liberal socialists crybabies and anti-American to boot.
The guy’s “last name” is Cho. Not Hui. For Koreans, their first name is the family name.
It’s actually less scary if it’s terrorism. Same way it’s less scary to people if Katrina was caused by global warming or if the Asian tsunami was caused by a nuclear test.
Counterintuitive but nothing scares people more than RANDOM evil. Giving it a narrative and purpose and specific cause allows people to manage their fear.
You mean...some FReepers are conspiracy minded?
Nah.
When there is nothing to blame, or what is to blame is totally unpredictable and uncontrollable, that is true terror.
It doesn’t take a trained marksman to shoot people at nearly point-blank range, which is what happened here.
Hee Hee! Good one. You are right. Stopping immigration won’t stop shootings. Some things you just can’t predict or prevent. That’s why the gun control falasy is so attractive to people—the desire to prevent anything bad from happening.
Even if there had been someone armed there (and I wish there were, or someone who would have tried to take him down with a chair, a well-aimed cell phone to the crotch . . .) who was armed, he could only have stopped the guy in the act, not prevented it.
Thanks—good update. I’m from near Centerville myself.
Good analysis.
“One of the witnessess in the classroom said that he changed clips on his gun quickly”
One that I heard was laying on the floor and said the same thing, that the only thing he “saw” was “the case” (he didn’t call it a “clip”) hitting the floor, then the shooter pulled another “case” from his pocket and was reloaded in 2-3 seconds.
Hmm. I’m not saying there’s anything inherently nefarious about it . . . I guess that degree of packratism is just foreign to me.
Ping
“He was a loner, and we’re having difficulty finding information about him,” school spokesman Larry Hincker said.
From another thread—who would have guessed?
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