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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: DCPatriot

Actually, I meant it seriously, if flowerly. ;-)

What is the visual difference between a bullet proof vest and a suicide vest?

This guy had a mean vindictive streak and made it personal, too. :-(

O’Reilly mentioning the Sun Times info.


3,241 posted on 04/16/2007 5:49:31 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Dogwood Blossoms trickle down like Snow, bringing hope of Renewal, Redemption and Resurrection)
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To: IamConservative

The police chief at the press conference said at least 2 doors were chained. The Palestinian kid, Jamal, who took the cell phone footage said he noticed policemen having a hard time getting into the main entrance to the building.

Somebody earlier in the afternoon proposed that the “perp” was in the building for some time before the shootings started...he would have had to be if he was the one who chained the doors.

Also, the chief said the shootings were in different parts of the Norris building, so he was definitely killing in more than one classsroom.

I’ve thought that if the two incidents are tied together, either the first was diversionary (which would also be in keeping with the Chicago Suntimes story about the bomb scares being to “test” security)

or

the first killing, if it was a girlfriend, was the random act and she was killed because she found out what he intended to do and the planned event was the Norris building...the RA was killed because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.


3,242 posted on 04/16/2007 5:49:36 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: HockeyPop

The campus has over 200 buildings. I doubt the campus police force has more than 50 total officers, not all of whom were on duty on duty at the time.


3,243 posted on 04/16/2007 5:49:48 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: California74

My - I thought the same thing, but sardonically, if that’s the right word.


3,244 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: relee

Yeah, we will be lied to again.


3,245 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:00 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: LexHoskin

O’Reilly saying the gunman was a Chinese National here on student visa.


3,246 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:01 PM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: omega4179

I wonder if this killer Chinese national is from a connected family in China. Maybe this is also a diplomatic problem also. 24 yrs old, arrived last year. “lone gunman” bomb threats tested campus security by the killer.


3,247 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:14 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: rollo tomasi
How about those little rubber guns that shoot ping pong balls?

Do you supposed CNN wants them banned?

3,248 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:15 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops. NOW more than ever!!.)
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To: floriduh voter
I heard the FBI lady. She called Fox news.

From what I read, this lady was NOT an FBI agent. She apparently had worked for the FBI in the past, but right now, she's a mother of one of the students, and was calling in that capacity.

3,249 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:32 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: bray

Maybe just one of those “truth is stranger than fiction” coincidences ? Genuine crime of passion going down earlier on a day something big planned by other persons unknown.


3,250 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:32 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Dog Gone

Because maybe he bought them from someone who erased the serial numbers.


3,251 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:40 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: bray

Agreed.


3,252 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:42 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Netizen

I suppose...but aren’t there always students and people wandering around campuses of this size?

Though your idea is plausible.


3,253 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:44 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet & FredFan)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Boy A still isn’t identified. ;-P


3,254 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:44 PM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Dogwood Blossoms trickle down like Snow, bringing hope of Renewal, Redemption and Resurrection)
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To: whenigettime

I agree with you.


3,255 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:49 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: SE Mom

Thanks for the clarification, SE Mom. :)


3,256 posted on 04/16/2007 5:50:53 PM PDT by California74
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To: pinz-n-needlez

I don’t know if this guy was a Muslim or not, but 2 percent of the population of China are Muslim. And 2 percent of “a lot” of people is a lot of people, LOL.


3,257 posted on 04/16/2007 5:51:11 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Netizen

Probably waited for after classes to start so they wouldn’t notice the chained doors. Basically trapping his victims. This was very well planned.

Pray for W and Va Tech


3,258 posted on 04/16/2007 5:51:12 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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To: LexHoskin

Does it seem that in our own Country we’re playing Defence instead of Offence it protecting our Own,,?,,,in the so-called upper echelon,,??


3,259 posted on 04/16/2007 5:51:12 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

metal detectors? conceal carry exceptions


3,260 posted on 04/16/2007 5:52:06 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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