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22 dead in Va. Tech shooting rampage
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/?GT1=9246 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 9:34:30 AM PDT by Shade2

BREAKING NEWS MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: less than 1 minute ago BLACKSBURG, Va. - At least 22 people were killed Monday in a shooting rampage on the Virginia Tech campus, police said. They said the gunman was among the dead.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; blacksburg; crime; shooting; vatech; virginia; virginiatech
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1 posted on 04/16/2007 9:34:30 AM PDT by Shade2
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To: Shade2

” The gunman was among the dead “

GOOD !!!!!


2 posted on 04/16/2007 9:37:03 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for -------- Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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Very sad. Twenty-three people and apparently only one of them was armed. Prayers for the grieving families.


3 posted on 04/16/2007 9:37:47 AM PDT by Obadiah (Republicans - the battered wives of Democrats.)
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To: Shade2

Some are students, some are teachers. So many cut down so young.

I wonder how long it will take the Dems in congress to try and use this politically?


4 posted on 04/16/2007 9:38:07 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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Cue opportunist Democrats in 3... 2... 1...


5 posted on 04/16/2007 9:39:56 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: Shade2

22? My God, what went wrong over there!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!...........


6 posted on 04/16/2007 9:40:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
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To: Shade2
Yow, that's a horriic toll. Obviously, No one was armed and in a position to stop this maniac. Very, very sad.

I wonder what the perp was like.

7 posted on 04/16/2007 9:40:16 AM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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Earlier reports said 1 dead and the perp in custody..


8 posted on 04/16/2007 9:40:37 AM PDT by cardinal4
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I wonder how long it will take the Dems in congress to try and use this politically?

And if law abiding citizens were allowed to carry guns, 22 people may be alive today.

9 posted on 04/16/2007 9:41:04 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658

A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.

House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.

The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill's defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

10 posted on 04/16/2007 9:41:28 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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It will be interesting to see info on the perp. Baptists again?


11 posted on 04/16/2007 9:41:29 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Anti Islam and a Global Warming denier - piss on Islam)
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Eyewitness on FOX said one ‘Asian guy’, so probably a student who snapped. But, with this kind of carnage by one shooter imagine a planned, multi-shooter - bomber attack. There is a Beslan waiting down the road for us.


12 posted on 04/16/2007 9:41:59 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Shade2

Other sources reporting that 1 is dead, 21 wounded.


13 posted on 04/16/2007 9:42:42 AM PDT by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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I think I remember reading an Editorial in the last couple days from Roanoke where the author was saying it is time to repeal the second ammendment.


14 posted on 04/16/2007 9:43:34 AM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: Red Badger
What went wrong is that those that died were following the law by not possessing a gun to protect themselves because the University was a “gun free zone”, whereas the shooter (criminal) was violating the law by having a gun in a gun free zone. Once again, it unfortunately shows that gun control laws only protect the criminals.
15 posted on 04/16/2007 9:44:20 AM PDT by Deano
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To: Shade2
My God ... the last I'd heard was one dead. How awful. My prayers go out to the families of the victims.

I hope the shooter is burning in hell.
16 posted on 04/16/2007 9:44:21 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: lionheart 247365

Columbine, Luby’s restaurant and the Long Island Railway shootings come to mind here.

In those and similar other events, the only one ON THE SCENE with a firearm was the killer. One armed citizen could have stopped this long before 20 + were murdered.

And it’s too bad the shooter is tits up: He might have copped to being motivated by some radical — ahhh — religious/political philosophy if you get my drift.

If there the authorities DO find some — er — religious/political motivation, wonder how long it will take for us to learn that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2acfzkhz8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4


17 posted on 04/16/2007 9:44:53 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: wtc911

A man of Eurasian decent perhaps?


18 posted on 04/16/2007 9:44:54 AM PDT by meg88
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Musta been one o’ them Home-Schooler thugs.


19 posted on 04/16/2007 9:45:03 AM PDT by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: I still care

How long before the media descends with their directors’ chairs and holds court on the campus.

Next up a rehash of Colombine and all the other school shootings.


20 posted on 04/16/2007 9:45:08 AM PDT by OldFriend
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