Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

[LexHoskin]

Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall

[CedarDave]

The guy is completely innocent. He’s just a guy who likes guns, and goes to Virginia Tech. It’s disgusting how Fox is running stuff about him to justify their previous smearing of him “Just look at his picture, it’s understandable that people thought he might be the guy”.

I think this is a repeat from earlier this evening. However, showing him as the shooter may subject Fox to some litigation.

[Strategerist]

Considering Fox News are the fine folks who told you Al Gore won the USSC decision in the Florida recount, I’m somewhat dubious.

[Windcatcher]

As Jim Pinkerton would say, “Too good to check.”

[1066AD]

Looks like it's sufficient to be legally here regardless of class of visa, so says an ATF FAQ.

[CedarDave]

As Jim Pinkerton would say, “Too good to check.”

How about "I'd like a BIG check!"

[bnelson44]

see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1818131/posts?page=4009#4009

[af_vet_rr]

The kill ratio here (in terms of number of shots to kills as well as to number of available targets to kills) is astounding.

This guy practiced for this. It is one thing to hit stationary targets

It is decidedly more difficult to hit moving targets.

Not when you lock the doors in the hallway, have two pistols, and have gone completly psychotic. There weren't a lot of moving targets, and the ones that were moving were not moving very far, as there wasn't much elsewhere to go. The majority of deaths occurred in one or two classrooms. It's very easy to see how it could have been much worse. We are lucky that it wasn't.

[VirginiaMom]

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[ArmstedFragg]

Apparently old GR learned a lot from Katrina.... and none of it involved being responsible about your reporting.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

If enough people realize that they alone are responsible for their own safety, they will take appropriate action (including tarring and feathering gun-grabbing idiots).

[Jrabbit]

It’s live. They have some computer whiz monitoring the guys site. Whoraldo wants to know immediately if the guy posts anything. Sheesh!

[CharlesWayneCT]

Oh My Goodness. Geraldo is interviewing students, and he just brought a girl student over, and it looks like she’s sitting in his lap!!!!!

[apillar]

Well here we go, ABC Nightline has currently has on some pro-gun control father from columbine on calling for renewing the assault weapons ban and gun show background checks...

[flintsilver7]

She looks like she just takes up a lot of space to me.

[af_vet_rr]

I think all of this does come down to mental illness in a sense. Of course, a person could be a complete sociopath and simply not care. It makes no sense to me. People can “snap” quickly or “snap” and simply become somebody else. I know the Columbine killers were suspected of something months in advance. That’s several months that they were clearly out of their minds, yet still these teenagers were planning mass murder. It’s possible that these people were never right to begin with - I’m certainly a believer that some people are simply defective.

I've heard mental illness brought up a few times, but it seems like Fox and CNN want to go back to movies, videogames, guns, etc.

I agree with you - there are some people that are just not right. If we are lucky, they only off themselves. If we are unlucky, they climb a tower or lock up some doors and shoot dozens. When we are extremely unlucky, they kill 100s of thousands, into the millions.

[Shortstop7]

Utter hogwash.

With the drivel on CNN, you’re going to try to say Fox is up for litigation?

Bwaaaah.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Interesting that Hillary’s meeting at Rutgers was cancelled when it was deemed it wouldnt be carried on the news.

What a fraudulent skank.

[publana]

ping

[Windcatcher]

Is it me or is this sickening to watch? Her friend is dead, for God’s sake!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Only if you cap off a shooting spree by blowing your face off.