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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Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear. If a campus is armed, I think there is more likelihood of shootings erupting—not as large scale as this (because the offenders would die in the cross-fire), but more prevalent.
Someone posted earlier that he was a reporter for the campus newspaper, and the police were just trying to get him away from the shooting scene.
That seems a bit ridiculous to me.
Maybe they have 2 vastly different weapons and ammo being used at the different sites.
I guess it is possible that the two are totally unrelated. Could be just a sad coincidence. One guy kills his girlfriend, then another guy, mad about who knows what, has made his way to the Engineering Dept. and starts killing folks.
I agree 100% !
I saw that guy being handcuffed, too. If he wasn’t arrested, they owe it to us to explain what we saw.
I honestly wouldn’t put too much stock in bomb threats on a college campus. I went to a college where we were evacuated from our dorm due to bomb threats every freaking weekend.
About locking down a college campus, I’m a college prof and I have to say that locking down a college campus - unless it’s a city campus all in one building — is impossible.
But that long a silence . . . still sounds . . . at least irresponsible or something.
Blood-sucking lawyers are circling already.
Pardon me for jumping in here, but the guy looks like he is living the worst day of his life. There are almost THREE DOZEN people dead and that is probably a HELL OF A LOT more concerning to these officials than keeping their jobs!
I need a little humor in all this. Thanks
I wouldn’t doubt that we’ll discover some things could have been done better, BUT your point is excellent. There’s absolutely no way in you-know-what the campus could be “locked down” or even evacuated. 2,600 acres, hundreds of buildings, most students not even living in dorms, thousands and thousands of staff and faculty, and hundreds or thousands at any given moment not online or in a dorm room. Even if you tried a “lockdown,” it would take hours.
Wasn’t Chelsea only a few blocks away?
Will update anything of interest.
Enjoy the BBQ.
I have CCW in two states, Indiana and Virginia. I remember that I was fingerprinted for my license in Indiana, but I really don’t recall for Virginia.
Regardless, it’s still not unusual for this fellow not to have had fingerprints on file. A normal, law abiding citizen wouldn’t really have any reason to have been fingerprinted.
I’m with you on this one.
Jesus they are just now getting to telling people what number to call to check on their kids.
If this was Morva, why was’nt he behind bars? This happened all the time in Florida w/early release.
Isn't it amazing??!!
Was Katie Couric was the one shouting ‘2nd shooter!’ Now she’s asking to outline the lockdown policy
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