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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: Democratic Blunderground Plant
Ismail Ax was the guy’s XBox Live Gamertag. He would sit around all the time and play Battlefield.

I've read this a couple of times as well, but I haven't seen a link.

4,861 posted on 04/17/2007 4:15:12 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Hyzenthlay

In general (IMO), State CCW regs are overly restrictive, and way too expensive. I doubt your average college student will bother, even with reasonable (or ‘ultra-liberal’) CCW regs. FWIW, and if I remember correctly, folks up in Vermont (including college students) have a constitutional right to carry weapons. Maybe you can provide some statistics from the great State of Vermont, showing that murder & mayhem have increased on Vermont college campuses (or is it campi?) as a result of the State’s firearms laws..


4,862 posted on 04/17/2007 4:39:50 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Just don't call me Geraldo...")
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To: Who is John Galt?

I’m not really against the idea, just kinda questioning it.


4,863 posted on 04/17/2007 4:48:12 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (VA Tech, we're praying for you.)
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To: DCPatriot
I agree with you. I have been to the campus. It is a large campus and not easy to lock it down. You cannot have a lockdown of a community this large every time there is a violent crime - in many murder cases the weapon is not left behind. A woman said she lives in a New York apartment building where there has been more than one homicide and the building was never locked down.

Even if the whole campus had been placed in lockdown, what would have prevented the shooter from waiting a few days and they gone on a shooting spree? At this point I cannot fault the university for the way the reacted.

As for the gunman's demented writings - just read the stuff Senator Webb wrote and he got elected to the Senate.

4,864 posted on 04/17/2007 4:57:07 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: null and void

Well, yes and no. I think for example in the Philippines I hear nothing but “akogare” as the Japanese would say, a “yearning” to live in a better place, a desire to get out of that rathole. So many Filipino men desire to work on any construction site anywhere in the world as long as it is not in the Philippines, and so many Filipina women yearn for a Western man as an escape mechanism to get out of that economic, political, military and social basket case known as The Philippines.


4,865 posted on 04/17/2007 4:58:40 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Hyzenthlay

There’s never anything wrong with questioning something - but sometimes folks (usually Leftists ;>) try to ‘snow’ people with question after question, without ever mentioning any facts. The facts indicate that concealed carry REDUCES crime, no matter what the D@mocrat Party media suggest to the contrary...


4,866 posted on 04/17/2007 5:02:41 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Just don't call me Geraldo...")
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To: BudgieRamone; Quix
Around about Memorial Day in the month after the Columbine murders I read an account online about one of the Trenchcoat Mafia founders, a graduate from a couple of years prior---I think the one who made the movie about going into the school and committing a massacre. He was the son of one of the lead investigators of the murders. Yessir, Daddy worked for one of them big Fedgov institutions. Gosh coincidences are neat. I got to thinkin' that I should go back and copy that story but SHAZZAMM it had vanished into the memory hole. Welcome to 1984.

PS: IIRC he had a French-sounding last name and the story was in the Rocky Mountain News.

4,867 posted on 04/17/2007 5:03:48 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Good point.


4,868 posted on 04/17/2007 5:06:51 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: Interesting Times

Virginia Tech shooter identified as Cho Seung-Hui

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was identified Tuesday as a English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school’s counseling service.

Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior, arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington, D.C., officials said. He attended Westfield High School in Centreville, Virginia (the same high school as Michael Kennedy who shot and killed two police officers and wounded another outside the Sully district Fairfax County police station in Chantilly, Virginia).

Police and university officials offered no clues to his motive in the massacre, the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. “He was a loner, and we’re having difficulty finding information about him,” school spokesman Larry Hincker said.

Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university’s English department, said she did not personally know the gunman. But she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy, the department’s director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as “troubled.”
Suicide note
According to reports, Cho left a “disturbing note” criticizing “rich kids”, “debauchery”, and “deceitful charlatans” before killing two people in a dorm room. Two hours later, he then crossed the campus to continue his rampage in a classroom building. Police identified Cho by matching fingerprints on the guns used in the shootings with immigration materials.
The words “Ismail Ax” were found inscribed on his arm in red ink, apparently a reference to his Xbox 360 gamertag. Friends said Cho would stay in his room and play Battlefield 2 for hours. Xbox Live have removed the gamer tag.
Officials have described finding a March purchase receipt for a GLOCK 9mm used in the assault and note that permanent residents in Virginia may legally purchase firearms with proof of residency.

http://charleypatton.blogspot.com/


4,869 posted on 04/17/2007 5:13:46 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: tpaine

When I recover from this, I will be loaded for bear. This is the second time I have been solely protected by a locked glass door with a gunman loose on campus.

Those restrictive gun laws didn’t work.


4,870 posted on 04/17/2007 5:20:27 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: valkyrieanne
It wouldn't surprise me one bit that anti-depressants were involved.

Yep, no violence in the world at all before anti-depressants.

One thing I notice is that people on heart medication are a lot more likely to have heart attacks than people not on heart medication. Clearly, we need to get people off heart medication.

4,871 posted on 04/17/2007 5:22:15 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Free Vulcan

AGREED.

Thx 4 the tip


4,872 posted on 04/17/2007 5:23:34 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Got it... thanks.

What "Ismail Ax" might mean is still unclear. I'd like to read the entire text of Cho's suicide note.

4,873 posted on 04/17/2007 5:25:00 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Strategerist

Hmmmmm . . . your alertness wins again. Thx.


4,874 posted on 04/17/2007 5:26:46 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: Rockpile

Fascinating, indeed.

Thx.


4,875 posted on 04/17/2007 5:29:24 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: Interesting Times

You and me both. I am not all that familiar with the game, either... that might shed some light on it.

Wiki about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_2:_Modern_Combat


4,876 posted on 04/17/2007 5:30:35 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Strategerist

Right. THis guy was so filled with hate, so crazed that no antidepressant would have helped him. He was a disaster waiting to happen. I suspect antidepressants weren’t what he needed. He needed antipsychotics. And a hospital, for a very long time.


4,877 posted on 04/17/2007 5:30:47 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Strategerist

It appears that your satire is becoming increasingly refined and witty.


4,878 posted on 04/17/2007 5:31:08 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD!)
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To: Rockpile
here

"BIZARRE TIES--TRENCHCOATERS/FBI Very significant information revealing the extent of the connection/ involvement/friendship that existed between Dylan Klebold and Brooks Brown has been recently revealed. There was significant involvement between the two; and now also apparently considerable involvement between THESE TWO and the son of the FBI's lead Columbine investigator Dwayne Fuselier, who is known to be directly tied to making the 1997 pre-massacre video which would appear to be a dry-run of trenchcoated gunmen shooting down students AT COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL!"

I wonder why the files are sealed for the next quarter century?

4,879 posted on 04/17/2007 5:38:29 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: af_vet_rr

Scary thing about psychopaths, they function perfectly logically with the context of their delusion. I worked ambulances in my youth and met my share of them. One was a lady who believed that the rock she was holding was a dinosaur egg that spoke to her and told her that some colors were out to get her, but green was safe. When we got her to the locked ward, she started going nuts on us until I pointed out that the nurse had a green pen and reminded her that green meant she was safe, whereupon she immediately stopped fighting.

The nurse, who’d been fighting with the woman while simultaneously yelling at me to butt out, was still looking stunned as I danced away.

That nurse was a real piece of work. She ‘secured’ our patient, and twenty minutes later, having completed the paperwork and changed sheets on the gurney, we pulled out of the parking lot and saw our former patient sitting on a bus bench out front. We debated letting them know their patient had escaped, looked at each other, realized we’d be helping the nurse, and simulaneously said “Nahhh”. “Mrs. Dino Egg” waved as we drove by.


4,880 posted on 04/17/2007 5:51:59 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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