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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“...We should cut down on the number of immigrants.”
As of yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer we have had 114 gun deaths, many, many innocents. What do you think we should cut down on there?
Collin Ferguson
Does that translate to Wayne or Earl?
Certainly if someone had been armed this tragedy would be smaller, maybe significantly, but there would still be at least the first person killed. Just as gun control is not a cure for evil, neither is gun ownership. Sometimes bad stuff happens. We need to have faith in God, our human solutions can only go so far.
1. Generation III Glocks have a built in rail for mounting a flashlight or laser aiming device iunder the muzzle and forward of the trigger guard.
2. I have a fabrication shop here at the house, and also have a Glock 21. It would take me at least three hours, dodging metal fragments and making a HELL of a lot of noise to file off the serial numbers, which occur in at least two places, on the integral barrel/chamber where visible through the ejection port, and on a receiver component showing through the composite housing. Repeat, hard work, and noisy.
3. I can instantly lay hands on every receipt for every firearm I have purchased. Very bad idea to lose this kind of paperwork, just like the title for your car. It gets special attention.
4. I fired approximately 36 rounds through my Glock the first week I purchased it. My prior pistol experience was under 100 rounds, total. At fifty feet, I made a 24” group.
5. Three months ago I purchased an airsoft (spring powered, fires a 6 mm plastic sphere) replica of my Glock to practice trigger technique, stance, and sight technique on an improvised range at home, and ran 50 practice shots through once or twice a week since.
6. Last week, for only the second time since I bought the Glock, I fired it, and was able to maintain a 6 inch grouping over 24 rounds, at 25 yards, or 75 feet. This is a greater than 4X improvement, in less than three months, without ever firing the actual pistol.
7. I have personally seen at least three people interviewed, who were inside the class rooms while the killer was shooting students, and all of them said they hit the floor when the first shots were fired, and lay there while the gunman walked around and shot people lying on the floor. Two of these interviews were conducted by one newsman at the same time, the other was a different interviewee and newsman from a different media organization.
8. I’m six feet tall, and shooting at a person lying on the floor, with my arm extended, with a Glock pistol, the range would be less than 3 feet.
9. In my opinion, this shooter felt he was losing his GF over an exended period of time, had severe mental problems, and in general felt the world was out to get him. IMO, he fantasized about “getting” those who he felt were against him, “fantasizing” substituting for actual planning. When he reached a certain level of deterioration in his relationshp with his girlfriend, he put his “plans” into practice. Not a person who snapped and went nuts, a person who snapped and went cold.
10. If you haven’t figured it out by now, nearly all detailed reports from the first 24 hours of an emergency are WRONG. Media are ignorant and liberal, speculation is permitted to replace hard work and patience, and most people forget this, until the facts begin to emerge on the second day.
11. I wish I’d been in range of this animal yesterday. I will NOT be disarmed by politicians who wish to use this incident as leverage to obtain unearned personal benefit. The Second Amendment is specific, and I stopped lending credence to any attempts to re-write or ignore it three months ago. The only form of gun control I respect is the specific wording of the US Constitution. If that changes, so will I. Until then, and in light of this incident, I will be armed, and in possession of spare magazines, 24/7. I urge all others to do the same. The police or government cannot and will not protect us, it is time for us to defend ourselves.
See my post 225.
It burns me that this is going to be politicized (and I have no doubt it will). Our society is so addicted to the promise of a fix for everything.
“Whatever happened to God’s Will? I’ve noticed over the last 10 years or so that every tragedy has to have someone to blame IMMEDIATELY, and we all have to be safe 24/7, etc. It annoys the crap outta me.”
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Blame = lawsuits
And you can’t sue God.
Why is the information on the note he left behind being withheld?
I missed that—there was a note?
I can't keep up with the latest....was the girl in the dorm his ex-girlfriend or the ex's roommate or....??? Does anyone know?
… Any time the phrase “at least” is preceeded before an injured or death count, it’s code (like graffitti is gang code) as a false flag/black op operation…
Here’s the proof:
http://frogsinhotwater.blogspot.com/
There is no proof, it's a long list of stories gathered off google that have "At least XX dead ... " in the titles.
Utter nonsense.
I agree.
Well said. I think you're exactly right. The sacriest thing about this is there was no rhyme or reason to it.
Didn’t he and the girlfriend break up just two weeks ago, iirc? March is over two weeks. Did he purchase the firearm before the split?
Does your screenname refer to the poet Robinson Jeffers?
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