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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: Dr. Eckleburg
I like your tag.

Thanks. I barely made it fit and I couldn't fit the writer as well. The author was Benjamin Franklin and he get's the credit. Btw, I added the letter "r" to your post. Minor editing.

941 posted on 04/16/2007 10:35:58 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: shoedog
I hear ya', but what about the spector of the potential Beslan-type incident? Perhaps college students should consider growing up?

Sports games are another potential SJS target - gun-free zone, too. I'm just saying, folks ought to wake up and think through the recent history. And, as we brag about our drug-free and gun-free school zones, the bad guys see "target of opportunity."

942 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:03 AM PDT by elk
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To: BurbankKarl

Is that the shooter or a victim?


943 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:08 AM PDT by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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To: shoedog
If these kids were killed in class, I cannot see any university that would or should allow students to be walking around with guns in class with them.

You mean "students" like me, a 35 year old holder of an FFL and an MI officer? I can shoot quarters out of the sky. If I had been in Norris Hall, and been "illegally" armed like most law-abiding citizens, I could have possibly stopped this attack or at least mitigated it.

This maniac, in a "gun-free" zone, shot over 50 students, killing half, for over 2 HOURS!!!

THAT TO ME IS INSANE! LAW ABIDING CITIZENS NOT CARRYING DEFENSIVE FIREARMS TO ME IS THE INSANE PART!

944 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:16 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute Scum & Pit Bulls.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

And the one that the MSM and gun grabbers really don’t want you to remember, the 1998 shootings in Pearl, MS - which were stopped only because the vice principal had a 1911 in his truck and was able to retrieve it:

http://www.davekopel.com/2A/OthWr/principal&gun.htm


945 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:21 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: shoedog
You are comparing apples to pigs.......
946 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:27 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rodgers)
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To: Danae

Great info per scanner. Do you have a Motorola trunk system out there? We have an APCO-25 system here in Ohio which has been a challenge to keep up with.


947 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:34 AM PDT by anton
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To: r9etb
As a matter of fact, I can't recall a single case where school shooters had been thwarted by armed civilians -- even though some of those shootings have occurred in places where personal firearms ownership is common.

I thought one was stopped by a teacher who retrieved a gun from his car. I can't remember which it might have been though.

948 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:38 AM PDT by Dianna
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To: stephenjohnbanker

According to the staff directory, he’s in Hutcheson Hall. No idea where that is in relation to where these shootings took place.


949 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:41 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: txflake

“Rubber gloves = hazmat suits?”

More likely for Officers looking for Id on students and for going through the scent with out contaminating it. And for personal protection. If they were hasmat suits they would be requesting Hasmat suits. So far there has been no request for that that I have HEARD. That will be taken care of by investigators that are not on the Scanner channel I am listening to. They are using phones for secure communications now.


950 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:42 AM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: r9etb
As a matter of fact, I can't recall a single case where school shooters had been thwarted by armed civilians

Here's one...

A principal and his gun

951 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:47 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Ieatfrijoles

#918 bogus, sorry. 1st casualty of war . . .


952 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:47 AM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: txflake

“Rubber gloves = hazmat suits?”

More likely for Officers looking for Id on students and for going through the scene with out contaminating it. And for personal protection. If they were hasmat suits they would be requesting Hasmat suits. So far there has been no request for that that I have HEARD. That will be taken care of by investigators that are not on the Scanner channel I am listening to. They are using phones for secure communications now.


953 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:50 AM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: LexHoskin
This will not be good for anybody with a VT degree on their resume.


BUMP

954 posted on 04/16/2007 10:36:50 AM PDT by capitalist229 (Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
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To: LexHoskin
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At least 4 are in critical condition.
955 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:05 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: goodnesswins

With the trauma helicopters grounded due to weather/snow....I bet they didnt get to surgery in time to save more. Those type of numbers would overwhelm the hospital system. 50+ gunshots victims would test NYC’s trauma system.


956 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:26 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: rollo tomasi
My dad and the rest of the JROTC used to bring their guns into classrooms in HIGH SCHOOL.

When I was in HS (30 years ago, in Alabama) it was common to see rifles & shotguns in gun racks in pickups in the school's parking lot. Time's have changed.

957 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:27 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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To: Dinah Lord

Yep, she’ll be depressed for another 10 years. UGH.


958 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:33 AM PDT by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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To: shoedog

You are so right. Too late for the dead but the wounded can still use our prayers for a full recovery. And also the families...this is so incredibly sad and horrific. It can happen anywhere nowadays.


959 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:33 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Is that a bullet wound in the guy’s thigh?


960 posted on 04/16/2007 10:37:33 AM PDT by dawn53
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