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 ...
UNC Officials Disappointed in ECSU's Handling of Emergency Drill [WRAL FOX 50]
ECSU: Campus notified five times about safety drill [WVEC TV]
Test gunman at school surprises students [Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia]
Fear. The way to keep a populace in submission.
So how would it play out if a student got a hold the fictitious perp and strangled him to death?
Jingbin Wang -does that come with egg roll?
jingbin wang is demanding a new pair of pants.
Geeze. Probably not the smartest thing to do only 8 days after the real event.
I was wondering that myself. It will happen someday.
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How about if a student whipped out a handgun and shot the phony assailant?
Maybe these sick puppies just don’t respect these “gun free zones”? LOL!!!
Unbelievable
Why do they need "counseling"? Nobody got hurt or died. This is kind of like when your brother sneaks up behind you, fills a paper bag with air, and pops it really loud.
I saw a nasty car wreck the other day and there was a fatality. Am I a bad person if I wasn't "traumatized" by it?
The student would probably be expelled on the same day and prosecuted for illegal possession of a firearm, assault, etc.
That is the question, isn’t it?
If I were still in college, I’d arguably have been spooked enough by the NIU shooting to ignore any extant gun-free zone policy. Judged by twelve, and all that.
So if I or someone like me had shot the pretend mass murderer, would we be charged with a crime? I’m guessing yes, although if I were on the jury of such a person I wouldn’t vote to convict.
insert kitty+WTF?!? picture here.
Don’t frighten the sheeple. They may pee their pants and have heart attacks.
A fad in the 1970’s, I thought this fake gunman sh!t was banned years ago
No, it isn't like that at all.
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