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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: markedmannerf

Probably not a good idea to post something like this with the speculation that the guy is a mass-murderer. You (or FR) could get a note from the guy’s lawyer ...


3,581 posted on 04/16/2007 7:13:29 PM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: AppyPappy

CNN saying “they know his name”. what is it?


3,582 posted on 04/16/2007 7:13:32 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Cindy

good find Cindy!


3,583 posted on 04/16/2007 7:13:43 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: milford421

No they haven’t.


3,584 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:10 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

thanks


3,585 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:21 PM PDT by bnelson44 (http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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To: AppyPappy
I walked on campus while my son was at Scouts tonight. It was so empty. It was like a reverent silence. God informed me during the walk that evil exists in this world but not in the next. I’m not even sure I know what that means.

We had a beautiful sunset tonight. One of the best I have seen. There is light that permeates the darkness. Maybe we got a glimpse of Heaven to remind us of our true home.

What a moving and reassuring post of eternal truth and light on this dark day, Appy.

THANK you!

3,586 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:28 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops. NOW more than ever!!.)
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To: Frank Sheed

I just looked it up on CNN and they have his name. It’s Jamal Albarghouti. As he told Blitzer, he is Palestian and he was spent much of his youth in Saudi.

Might be a simple coincidence, but since Blitzer said his family was famous, the two “famous” Al Barghoutis (that’s how they spell it in the ME) are Marwan, who was head of Fatah and leader of some intifadas, and Mustafa, who is a Palestian politician. I wonder what his connection to them is, if any. He sure was in the right place at the right time to snap that video.


3,587 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:36 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: bnelson44
Pictures at the link predate the killer coming into the country

Do you know the date of entry, and could I get your source?

3,588 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:36 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: AppyPappy

Do you know any of those that were killed today?


3,589 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:43 PM PDT by Halls (check out my profile and it will explain everything!)
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To: jennyjenny

True. One group is held to a high standard and for the most part they achieve it. The other isn’t held to much of a standard and for the most part they achieve it.


3,590 posted on 04/16/2007 7:15:57 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: milford421

I know President Bush wanted to extend his sympathy, but his Presser seemed to really come very quickly. IMHO, something is going to come out of this that isn’t going to be pretty.

He responded with a Presser more quickly on this than on 9/11.


3,591 posted on 04/16/2007 7:16:32 PM PDT by not2worry ( What goes around comes around!)
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To: Jedidah
It is about not turning our public places into very scary places.

Today VA Tech was a scary place and only 1 person initially had a gun. The shooting didn't stop until 100's of police descended on the campus! The 2nd amendment didn't place any limitations on where I can carry a firearm - people with your mindset did and they/you make us sitting ducks for the loonies who want to kill.

3,592 posted on 04/16/2007 7:16:52 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org ? Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Dog Gone

I don’t buy the “signal” hypothesis but a simple “success” message doesn’t seem outside the bounds of possibility. Impossible to differentiate from an innocent recording. If he was from a “well-known Palestinian family” then I think a run-through of his email records isn’t unreasonable.


3,593 posted on 04/16/2007 7:16:58 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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To: DBrow
Obviously, a person who is going to shoot 30 people, some execution style, isn't worried about if he is breaking concealed weapon laws. My point was your comparison to the military, where they are being highly trained to use these weapons.
3,594 posted on 04/16/2007 7:17:13 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: not2worry

Perhaps he wasn’t reading a book to a classroom of young children today.


3,595 posted on 04/16/2007 7:17:35 PM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo (The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
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To: Jedidah
The thought of a campus full of armed 18-25 year olds scares me to death. ~ Jedidah

Ever been on a military base? ~ DBrow

I grew up on one. It would give me the willies if that group hadn't been through basic training and boot camp.

With that level of maturity and self discipline among the military armed, I've never felt (or been) safer in my life.

3,596 posted on 04/16/2007 7:17:38 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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To: AppyPappy

Your post has brought tears to my eyes.

I stressed to my sons tonight (I know at the ages of 5, 7 and 11 I sure wasn’t being talked to about this sort of thing) I stressed to them, AGAIN, they have to always know that any of us could be called home at anytime, we can’t control that, but to always be prepared in their hearts and minds, because we will wait for each other in heaven. And everything will be alright there. Extra hugs from mom and some silent tears sitting with them in the dark for the heartbreak so many are and will feel.

We just never know when or where.

Prayers for you and yours, and more prayers for all of the affected and the VT family, and the town.


3,597 posted on 04/16/2007 7:18:15 PM PDT by eyespysomething
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To: Cindy; All

Make sure and check out Cindy’s post at 3,562 (the first link)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1810409/posts?page=827#827


3,598 posted on 04/16/2007 7:19:06 PM PDT by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: dragnet2

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.articleprint


3,599 posted on 04/16/2007 7:19:10 PM PDT by bnelson44 (http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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To: LexHoskin
My feelings are surprisingly mixed. Of course I don't want people to die, but 3000 Americans have already been killed by illegal aliens alone. Plus I read one year ago they (stupidly) voted to ban guns on campus. In a Southern school a couple years ago (the name of the school escapes me) an African (not African-American, but a guy from Africa) offed the prof and was about to lay into the students when one returned from his car with his own legal piece. The foreigner dropped his gun real quick-like.

Anyway, along with all the soul searching, I see things just like this as inevitable results of liberal policies across the board.

Sorry to say, but things like this will toughen kids up, just like seeing that Nick Berg kid get his head sawed off. This is our world, and we need Reaganesque social and governmental values in order to survive in it. We'll arrive at those values, one way or another.
3,600 posted on 04/16/2007 7:19:10 PM PDT by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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