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Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin

Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall

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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; vatech; virginiatech
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To: meg88

Quite plausible.

I still think that scanner catch about the police asking about a Mohammed something or other is very interesting.

Bet that gets buried.


1,881 posted on 04/16/2007 1:42:08 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: oceanview
the same gunmen traveled across the campus and couldn’t be found for 2 hours, and then went to the next place to start the shooting spree?

This is certainly perplexing. If this is how it actually happened, law enforcement and university officials have a LOT of explaining to do. If you've had a multi-victim shooting in a dorm, and haven't found the shooter yet, the campus and surroundings should be swarming with law enforcement, and students should be gathered into a few small areas under the protection of armed LEOs. The idea that two HOURS after the dorm shooting, with the shooter still at large, classes were still in session all around the campus on a busines-as-usual basis, just boggles the mind.

1,882 posted on 04/16/2007 1:42:26 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Miss Marple

I never had to have my prints on any ID I’ve done in this country...work, driver’s license, college, whatever.


1,883 posted on 04/16/2007 1:42:29 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: cammie
He was carrying no cell phone, no ID, his fingerprints brought up nothing, and he shot himself in the face, thus disfiguring himself.

Very weird. Like someone else suggested, they can't ID him through the girlfriend?

1,884 posted on 04/16/2007 1:42:56 PM PDT by retrokitten (These pretzels are making me thirsty!)
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To: DCPatriot

“The 1st shooting was simply a diversion..as every LEO in the county was on the other side of the campus while a mile away”

More like a half mile. But if was a diversion, why would he wait more than two hours?


1,885 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:04 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: GenuineChocolateFace

Wow, I hadn’t known about that!

btw, the spelling is “Kehoe”


1,887 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:15 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I have no problem believing any of the story, but seriously wonder why, after a 7:15 am shooting with a gunman on the loose ANYBODY was in a classroom 2 hours later.

Irrelevant. If they cancelled classes, the kids would gather somewhere. The campus would not have been rendered safe by cancelling classes.

1,888 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: floriduh voter

Well, it’s interesting that President Bush is having a news conference this afternoon. Something’s up.

FBI concern about school bus drivers last month may have sent these guys in another direction.


1,889 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:39 PM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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To: Deo volente

Thanks. I knew the name, but couldn’t remember the spelling.


1,890 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:49 PM PDT by GenuineChocolateFace (Sarcasm - it beats killing people.)
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To: TonyInOhio

Can we stop wasting space on idiot “ April in History” posts?

If college students are a bunch of undisciplined idiots, you certainly can treat them like idiots that need to be nannied, OR you can take the non-police state approach and instead EXPECT MORE OF THEM and bust their butts when they act up!!!

The rules of civilization should NOT be dumbed down for the biggest morons. THAT is a hallmark of socialist thought.


1,891 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:52 PM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: DCPatriot

re: Drudge... as usual, his radio show put me to sleep.


1,892 posted on 04/16/2007 1:43:54 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: KoRn
I'm going to go out on a limb and say none. It probably took him at least a couple of days to get that vest. I've never seen any shops in this area selling vests. I'd say he ordered it online. I'd be interested to see what his credit/debit card transactions look like. I'm sure that's being done as we speak.

Other than a post on this thread, I have heard no mention of a "vest"....

1,893 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:08 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: TAdams8591

“think about all the Jihadi’s around the world who are cheering and praying for the death toll to go higher . . . as well as calculating as much as they can how to increase such when they launch their . . . campus ‘visits.’”
= = =

I have thought of it, and NOW so have they.
= = =

For sure . . . and probably brain storming sessions about rewriting battle plans are being held as we type.


1,894 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:21 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: sola_fide

Thanks for the information. I didn’t know...it having been many moons since I had a college ID.


1,895 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:39 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
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To: Cindy

Sure thing.
Glad you’re here.


1,896 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:39 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: relee
"There was a show in Salem this past weekend. It might be possible to get a used vest there."

That's true, and an interesting theory. I've seen vests at shows before, so that IS a possibility.

1,897 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:51 PM PDT by KoRn (FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Quix

Virgina Tech had a killer on the loose for three hours and did not warn anyone.


1,898 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:51 PM PDT by meg88
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I wonder if those calling for the arming of all students on campus are the same posters who bemoan the radical and violent students on campus. Most college students are leftist, and some advocate violence. It is tempting to think that some hero would rise up and stop this guy, but isn’t it also likely there could be a series of smaller incidents without a ban, instead of one major incident with a ban? Or a case of mistaken pre-emption?

Both sides are sickeningly taking advantage of this situation, but obviously the gun nut faction is far more vocal here on FR.


1,899 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:55 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (A Day Late and a Dollar Short)
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To: Eva

VT is at fault. Ask WHY no lockdown until second shooting with 2 hours and a killer on the loose.


1,900 posted on 04/16/2007 1:44:59 PM PDT by anglian
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