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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The blame is so predictable. Some people have to blame someone, no matter what. The real person to blame is dead, so that just leaves Virginia Tech. It makes no difference what the school did or didn’t do.
>>I see Shep has made it to Virginia Tech.
So I won’t be turning on the TV. I can’t stand CNN, and I can’t stand Shep’s overwrought histrionics.
Talk about "Inconvenient Truths" for the antigunners.
Certainly with military training and very experienced in US gun identification laws the serial # on both guns were erased.
It is very difficult to accept that a foreigner with less than a year on US soil knows so many things.Unless he was purposely trained for that.
I would have no problem sending my child to Virginia Tech. It is a beautiful area and the food is far better than at many other schools.
Still, the fact that this is likely a Chinese student who carried this out and they blame American culture for the act seems hypocritical.
Mainland Chinese are very violent, and it is a very militaristic country. I have traveled to China at least 6 times in the past 6 years, and every single time I have seen acts of violence in public...fights and brawls and theft. I am only one person and don't travel to every rough part of town to see these things.
The other thing I am struck by when I have been to China is that every single TV station has shows and commercials glorifying the People's Liberation Army every single day...all day long. It is scary.
If he was here for 8 mos it makes the jealousy story less possible. How does he find a girl and get that possesive in 8 mos. This is terrorism and he was sent here on a mission. The girl was a diversion.
Pray for W and Va Tech
This has a similar KIA/WIA ratio to Port Arthur and reeks much the same.
If you don't have the shooter, then you need to be concerned. jmo
He also remembered to call in bomb threats to check police response times.
Pray for W and Va Tech
There must be a fine line to how you expand this feeling beyond those effected.
I was moved by the President who spoke of how OUR hearts go out to those who lost friends and loved ones, but somewhat repulsed by people who said “the nation suffered a tragedy”.
This wasn’t a national tragedy. It wasn’t my loss. Sure, I was sad, and hurt, and maybe angry, but the event belongs to those who lived through it or died from it. Sometimes I think we publicise stuff like this so much that we take away from the true victims their “victimhood”.
I felt that way with the Rutgers team. By the time they had their press conference to discuss how mean words said about them effected them, a lot of people were saying things like “shut up already”, or “what victims”, because Sharpton and Jackson had already “stolen” their victimhood for all black people, and Imus was even making himself out to be the victim.
Maybe if you are suffering a loss like this, it helps to know other people “feel your pain”, but frankly every time I’ve been around people who had a loss, the last thing they seemed to want to hear was how others “understood”, or “felt”, their loss.
I wish some of the second guessers would tell us exactly what they would have done.
1) They had an incident in a dormitory, where two people were shot.
2) We are being told that the campus should have been "locked down", at that time. There were some 9,000 students living in dormitories ON CAMPUS at that time. So some suggest that the University should have locked them in their dorms when they'd already had one shooting in a residential facility.
3. The second shooting incident happened in a building of classrooms, but how were they to know yesterday at 8:00 where the second horror would occur, even if they could have foreseen it??
4. I can only conclude that what is being suggested is that a campus of some 30,000 should have been completely exacuated. To where? How long does it take to do that?
Instead of the blame game, I'd like to see practical ideas about what people are truly suggesting.
Hindsight is 20-20
I personally think the North Hollywood shooting was one of the “worst” shootings in our history. Not in terms of number killed (which I’ve decided is not a good way to measure the events, since that seems to be simply a matter of will of the shooter), but because of the sheer terror factor.
Knowing the police had the guys surrounded, but that they could do nothing to stop them, that civilians who had been shot couldn’t be rescued, that the gunmen owned the street, that’s just scary. Like “Terminator” scary.
In this shooting, we can speculate that one student with a gun could have stopped this guy. In NHollywood, we had police with guns and they could do nothing.
I guess we will have to wait another 45 minutes or so to get the final word on the perp.
Steve Doocy (Fox News) was saying Librescu held door and died while his students went out the window, so that professor shot in the head is not Librescu.
MSNBC just reported that now.
I was just about to make a smart comment about his pathetic whining during Katrina, and whether he would pull the same theatrics here— and I ran across your post.
Ugh.
I think the Cho guy is who furnished the guns and the shooter is from Shanghai. He may have left from Shanghai and came from somewhere that has AQ ties. If the rumors are true he looks like he came here on a specific terrorist mission.
The Samestream press will never speculate terrorism. They will follow the Columbine script. It is up to the new media to follow other possibilities.
Pray for W and Va Tech
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