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NC: Mock Gunman Drill Terrifies Students, Faculty at North Carolina University
AP via FOX News ^ | 2008-02-27

Posted on 02/28/2008 7:09:35 PM PST by rabscuttle385

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Elizabeth City State University is offering counseling to faculty and students after some became unknowing participants in an emergency response drill.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported in Wednesday's editions that an armed man burst into a classroom Friday, threatening to kill students. The drill came eight days after a gunman killed five people and himself in a classroom at Northern Illinois University.

Anthony Brown, vice chancellor of student affairs, said ECSU was testing its response to such shootings. E-mail and text messages were sent five days before the drill, notifying students, staff and faculty, he said.

"The intent was not to frighten them but to test our system and also to test the response of the security that was on campus and the people that were notified," Brown said.

But not everyone got the word, including assistant professor Jingbin Wang, whose American foreign policy class was held hostage.

"I was prepared to die at that moment," Wang said Tuesday of the moment the gunman entered the room.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: drill; ecsu; emergency; highereducation; niu; schoolviolence; shooting; vt
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To: ROP_RIP

“This is kind of like when your brother sneaks up behind you, fills a paper bag with air, and pops it really loud.”

No, this is more like if I kicked in the back door to your home late one night, grabbed your child, and held a gun to her head.


21 posted on 02/28/2008 7:57:08 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: rabscuttle385

The ‘gunman’ was lucky to come out of it alive. It’s sort of like airplane hijackings these days. If you think you are likely to die anyway, you might as well go down fighting.


22 posted on 02/28/2008 8:05:29 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

I have always felt those Imams who started praying loudly on that airplane were damned lucky they didn’t get effing stomped to death by the other passengers.

I would have started it if I had been there.


23 posted on 02/28/2008 8:13:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: rabscuttle385

When I saw this story yesterday on TV, I couldn’t stop laughing! (If I was a student there, though, I definitely wouldn’t be.) It’s so stupid. What the hell were they even trying to accomplish by making this “drill” so realistic? How could they not have informed the teacher and the class? I mean, if the point was to test the emergency response of the campus police or whatever, why do you even need to terrify a classroom full of students? You’re not holding the drill to test how THEY react, are you? “Gee, I wonder if they’ll get scared? Panic, maybe? Get traumatized? Let’s find out!”

Hope whoever is responsible for this gets sacked.


24 posted on 02/28/2008 8:34:58 PM PST by Zeon Cowboy (Pardon Ramos and Compean NOW! // R.I.P. William F. Buckley // Worst. Election. Ever.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

25 posted on 02/28/2008 8:42:49 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Admin Moderator for President. The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: rabscuttle385

You see this would have been a real problem. Because being slightly suicidal my first instinct probably would have been to pull my knife on the guy assuming I was close enough and hope I could get a jump on him, and I’m not kidding.

If one student had been packing you’d have another dead body and what jury would convict since it was in obvious self defense?


26 posted on 02/28/2008 9:13:33 PM PST by utherdoul
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To: rabscuttle385

This thead is now complete.


27 posted on 02/28/2008 9:13:37 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Hillary Clinton - It's OBAMAS Party and She'll Cry if She Wants to?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Cowardly Americans brought to you by years of liberals constantly instilling weakness in people through their nanny state minded sycophants in the media and academia.


28 posted on 02/28/2008 10:42:35 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: wintertime

ping


29 posted on 02/29/2008 4:46:04 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: rabscuttle385; Amelia; Gabz; SoftballMominVA; abclily; aberaussie; albertp; AliVeritas; ...

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If you would like to be on or off this list, please freepmail Amelia, Gabz, or SoftballMominVa

30 posted on 02/29/2008 5:37:42 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: Zeon Cowboy

If everyone knew it was a drill, then nobody would react.

There’s always the possibility, however slight, that someone who got that e-mail could use that opportunity to do a real slaughter so what every one thought was a drill and didn’t really react to, would have resulted in deaths anyway.


31 posted on 02/29/2008 6:14:20 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Old Sarge

Too bad no one was armed and defended themselves appropriately.

But as you said, what better way to keep an entire nation docile than to disarm them, keep them afraid and make them dependent upon the government for “safety”.


32 posted on 03/01/2008 5:17:28 PM PST by kenth
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