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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: Alia
I'm not trying to be light on this score; but what if the shooter's name happened to be "Ho".

That depends. If his first name is "Napi-hedded", we'll never get to here it on the air. There isn't a (working) radio/TV person who'd dare utter THAT phrase.

2,661 posted on 04/16/2007 4:01:52 PM PDT by Ignatz (Did you know that before the internal combustion engine, there was no weather at all?)
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To: jveritas
They should have closed the campus after the first shooting, period.

I don't necessarily agree because the place is huge, and there was no indication that the horror was going to spread. Again, you don't lock down an entire city block when there is a domestic dispute.

Frankly, there isn't any indication that locking it down would have made any difference. After all, the killer pushed his way into a crowded classroom. That's exactly where they would have been even if there had been a lockdown.

2,662 posted on 04/16/2007 4:02:19 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

go to jail? no, I don’t think anyone is suggesting the university people should “go to jail”. this isn’t a question of personal criminal liability. its just mismangement and poorly thought out approach to this incident, which did nothing to protect the students.


2,663 posted on 04/16/2007 4:02:29 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

I wonder if the shooter was taking antidepressants?


2,664 posted on 04/16/2007 4:03:11 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Polynikes

I can reach around the back of my head, can’t you?


2,665 posted on 04/16/2007 4:03:28 PM PDT by omega4179 (Each unskilled Immigrant costs 30,000 annually to taxpayers.)
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To: oceanview

It’s pretty naive to begin with to expect campus cops to protect 25 thousand people. That’s why people should have the right to defend themselves and protect their fellow man from nutjobs.


2,666 posted on 04/16/2007 4:03:42 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: PLMerite

And Montgomery Wards was always “Monkey Wards” to me. My parents used that name!


2,667 posted on 04/16/2007 4:03:49 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: mutley

Do you seriously need an answer to that?


2,668 posted on 04/16/2007 4:04:16 PM PDT by sarasmom
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For those interested in the Bath Story here is a good link....click on victims and they have bios of each of the children....very sad....http://daggy.name/tbsd/index.htm


2,669 posted on 04/16/2007 4:05:13 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: Cicero
What worries me is that the FBI has a perfect record of covering up almost every incident of domestic terrorism or Sudden Jihad Syndrome in this country.

I agree!

They know who the shooter is by now. Wouldn't surprise me if the shooter was an Illegal Alien.

2,670 posted on 04/16/2007 4:05:48 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker
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To: dawn53
Resident Assistant was what they were called when I went to college (many moons ago.) They were an older student “in charge” of a dorm floor

In my first dorm, that was a 25 year old Special Forces non-com just back from beautiful Southeast Asia, this being in the very early '70s.

Needless to say, not much ever happened on his floor.

2,671 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:03 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: The KG9 Kid

He had killed 2 hours ago and was hiding/moving for 2 hours you say it like he was continously shooting for 2 hours.


2,672 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:04 PM PDT by omega4179 (Each unskilled Immigrant costs 30,000 annually to taxpayers.)
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To: Ignatz

So, when do you think the usual cabal will outlaw and move to censor the term “rag head”?


2,673 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:14 PM PDT by Alia
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To: null and void

Barghouti!


2,674 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:18 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"But shouldn’t have been, given that there were only 2 people shot and it appeared to be just an interpersonal conflict involving the shooter, his target, and one person who tried to intervene. Locking down a 2600 acre campus with 25,000 students in that scenario wouldn’t be reasonable — but they absolutely should have sent out an alert with basic info on what had happened, and the fact that the shooter was still on the loose, and a PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOOTER (which apparently wasn’t even included with the message that finally went out 2 hours late)."

A good comparison would be the first day of classes when they had a loose convict in the area. How did the staff and police react and what was the difference. I haven't looked into this yet, but if I was a lawyer for one of the victims, I sure would.

2,675 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:42 PM PDT by DocRock (What would Solomon Do?)
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To: SuziQ

oh, now I see his “jail” reference.


2,676 posted on 04/16/2007 4:06:54 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: TBall
I wonder if the shooter was taking antidepressants?

I've been wondering something similar all day. I was wondering if it's going to come out that the perp was a Ritalin case.

2,677 posted on 04/16/2007 4:07:00 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: HockeyPop

Well remember it was about a month ago that the FBI
issued a warning about school bus drivers as a
terrorist threat.

Now Fox is saying some of the students were lined up
execution style.

I can’t believe they are clueless about the identity of the shooter.


2,678 posted on 04/16/2007 4:07:16 PM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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To: MinuteGal
It may already be posted here but I just sat down at the computer. My poor eyes refuse to go through two thousand-plus comments to find a name.

I just got home from seeing doctors and hadn't heard anything about this until I called my ex-husband to tell him what the doctors are thinking is wrong. Of course, my cable is on the fritz too and won't be fixed until tomorrow so the only place I'm able to get news is here on FR and the other websites.

My heart and prayers go out to all of the families affected by this. Thirty three so far with fifteen wounded? That's just so hard for me to wrap my mind around.

2,679 posted on 04/16/2007 4:07:27 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns (http://www.fda.gov/emaillist.html - Class I (life threatening) recalls email alert sign-up)
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To: pitinkie

Thanks. bin Laden was a weak attempt at humor.


2,680 posted on 04/16/2007 4:07:48 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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