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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

(Excerpt) Read more at vtnews.vt.edu ...


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

the bald girl that survived the classroom shooting (that did the interview) said the professor was ‘down’


3,501 posted on 04/16/2007 6:45:38 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: Jedidah
and arming college students is just a nutty idea.

How in God's name can you say that after today?

3,502 posted on 04/16/2007 6:45:56 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Jedidah

“The thought of a campus full of armed 18-25 year olds scares me to death.”

Ever been on a military base?


3,504 posted on 04/16/2007 6:46:37 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Jedidah
Your (masculine version) namesake armed himself to the teeth.
(Jedidiah = King Solomon)
3,505 posted on 04/16/2007 6:46:57 PM PDT by Enosh (†)
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To: redgolum

Do you think someone else might have supplied the vest and guns?? How can a new arrival from China get those?

Pray for W and Va Tech


3,506 posted on 04/16/2007 6:47:10 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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To: Dog Gone

Let’s get totally paranoid and irrational because it’s fun.

This is international. What is the big difference between broadcasting the cutting off of heads for the world to see and broadcasting the gunshots that killed and maimed numerous young students.


3,507 posted on 04/16/2007 6:47:12 PM PDT by Chickensoup (.The Muzzies are hanging us with the rope we paid out to the leftists.)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Only RESPONSIBLE and well trained people should have access to weapons in those type of situations. I see no problem with well certified citizens carrying weapons in public, but I don’t think every hot headed 18 year old on campus should be packing heat as some posters have advocated.


3,508 posted on 04/16/2007 6:47:16 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: bray
"Pray for W"

Pray that he'll pull his head out of his @ss and do something about the illegal immigration problem.

3,509 posted on 04/16/2007 6:48:10 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: bray

This guy was trained. He knew how to keep his cool and execute. A “jilted lover” would not keep his cool; further the events leading to the executions (i.e. the bomb threats and planning) suggest terrorism.

All that is left is the perps name.


3,512 posted on 04/16/2007 6:48:31 PM PDT by Porterville (All hail the Prophet Gore, an ass dressed in a lion's skin)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
You can’t shut down a city of 26,000 people because somebody shoots two people in a dorm room.

Yeah You can, and in this case you must. It's a school, not a city. And a murderer is loose on campus. Lock down all buildings ASAP. That is the protocol.

3,513 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:00 PM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: buccaneer81

I didn’t say it in God’s name. I said it in absolute seriousness.

What happened today was bad enough without more people dying via friendly fire or accidental discharges. Can you imagine thousands weapons being fired in panic?

There is a legitimate argument that we must fortify our schools to some extent. More security, including people authorized to carry firearms, is in order.

But students need to be students. A gun in every backpack is a nutty idea.


3,514 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:04 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: bray

I don’t know. Heck, with $1000 and a little time anyone anywhere can find a gun. With the serial numbers filed off, that hints that they were “hot”.

But why would an exchange student go through the time, effort, and risk to get some illegal guns? That is what I am trying ot figure out.


3,515 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:09 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: markedmannerf

Not the killer:

Pictures at the link predate the killer coming into the country

Doesn’t look 24 years old

Mastery of English is too good for someone here on a student visa from China


3,516 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:13 PM PDT by bnelson44 (http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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To: markedmannerf

That journal was ruled out earlier supposedly.


3,517 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:16 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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Geraldo reporting white guy with greasy hair, black pickup truck with farm license plates.


3,518 posted on 04/16/2007 6:49:43 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: bnelson44; markedmannerf

Yep.

And he seems to have a taste in old surplus rifles of Russian and Chinese vintage.


3,519 posted on 04/16/2007 6:50:25 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Dante3
...Interesting that he might be Chinese. Although college shootings are relatively rare compared to high school, it has been mentioned that a number have involved those from Asia. I recall three other cases: ...

A law student from Nigeria shot two faculty members and a student in 2001 at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia...

He may have been Asian but most likely he was African.

3,520 posted on 04/16/2007 6:50:49 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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