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VT Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit (Virginia Tech)
ABC News Online ^ | 4/18/07 | Ned Potter and David Schoetz

Posted on 04/18/2007 2:01:00 PM PDT by foreshadowed at waco

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To: Paige

They already did.


41 posted on 04/18/2007 2:24:17 PM PDT by since1868 (God said it. I believe it.That settles it.)
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To: ASOC
I wonder what he sent to NBC news.

Probably nothing that the police haven't had since Monday when they took his computer....I'd be fairly certain it was all composed there.

It sure has gotten all the newsies hyper this afternoon, though...

42 posted on 04/18/2007 2:24:32 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: skikvt

Did the University know of his “mental health issues”? That question will be worth 250+ Million Dollars.


43 posted on 04/18/2007 2:24:39 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Redleg Duke
The same liberal pukes who want to take away our guns are the ones defending the rights of the criminally insane to not be profiled or have their information in any data base.

I thought that needed repeating.

44 posted on 04/18/2007 2:25:36 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Kevmo

How would gun store owner know the BATF form 4473 was wrong and the person is lying on the form?


45 posted on 04/18/2007 2:26:11 PM PDT by art_rocks
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To: Lazamataz

> This person was illegally in possession of a firearm.<

This is the kind of stuff that has to be caught by the instant background check. You can’t rely on the individual telling the truth. The trip to the mental hospital was voluntary, and thus was covered up to protect the poor dear’s privacy.

And now 31 innocent lives have been snuffed out.


46 posted on 04/18/2007 2:26:55 PM PDT by Darnright
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To: foreshadowed at waco

bttt


47 posted on 04/18/2007 2:28:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ErnBatavia

THe newsies are pinging harder than a bunch of 8 year olds after a suger feast.


48 posted on 04/18/2007 2:28:53 PM PDT by ASOC (Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
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To: foreshadowed at waco
....and now thousands of VT students are urged to go to "grief therapy" and "bereavement counseling" by all those shrinks who used to go to shrinks themselves.

(.....shiver ((( ))).....)

Leni

49 posted on 04/18/2007 2:29:00 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Bahama Mama ( moi) planning FReeper vacation week. Not a cruise. It's "FReeps Ashore!" Stay tuned!)
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To: foreshadowed at waco
He slipped through so many cracks.

People wanted him to slip through the cracks. The police / campus authorities didn't want to deal with another problem, and his peers didn't give a tinker's d*mn about someone who was "different."

Sometimes, society produces monsters. I'm rather amazed it doesn't happen more often, to be honest.

(Which is not to say some people aren't just full-bore nuts from the moment they're born, but I haven't seen any indication of that here. This guy seems to have been building up his hostility slowly over many years.)

50 posted on 04/18/2007 2:29:00 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (My voting record: Rudy '89, Rudy '93, Rudy '97, Rudy '08. (Why not piss off BOTH sides?))
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To: Lazamataz

Isn’t that a form with Check-off boxes?

I mena, if he checked “no” then how’s the gun dealer supposed to know?


51 posted on 04/18/2007 2:29:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Ellesu
Victim said Cho smelled bad,

Hellfire and brimstone, perhaps?

52 posted on 04/18/2007 2:29:12 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: samadams2000
"Did the University know of his “mental health issues”? That question will be worth 250+ Million Dollars."

Hey, that would be a good way to shut down the psychobabble and black magic industry. "Kids, don't ever go to a psychologist, or you won't be able to go to college!"

...matter of fact, we should start broadcasting that now, as such policies are already in effect in some schools.
53 posted on 04/18/2007 2:30:09 PM PDT by familyop (Essayons (has-been))
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To: Lazamataz
This person was illegally in possession of a firearm.

I am sure the MSM will get around to figuring this out sometime around, oh ... *checks calendar* October or so.

54 posted on 04/18/2007 2:30:13 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (My voting record: Rudy '89, Rudy '93, Rudy '97, Rudy '08. (Why not piss off BOTH sides?))
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To: foreshadowed at waco

Any unsolved cases of missing young women either nearby Blacksburg or eleswhere in Virginia? The question needs to be asked. There is a certain profile here.


55 posted on 04/18/2007 2:30:14 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: foreshadowed at waco

Governor Eyebrow’s Fault!


56 posted on 04/18/2007 2:31:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: foreshadowed at waco

So how did this guy end up in the suite with the other guys? Most people pick their roommates—maybe someone dropped out and the school plunked this psycho in the empty bed?

I would NOT be happy if it was my son who was stuck with this guy, and didn’t know he was nuts!


57 posted on 04/18/2007 2:31:55 PM PDT by jaybee
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To: KarlInOhio
"Do they just take the buyer's word on the Crazy/Not Crazy question?"

Unless the background check has the information the dealer is in fact taking the word of the buyer. However, as others are pointing out here, lying on the form makes the purchase illegal and the person illegally in posession.

The MSM's drooling reporters are loving to be able to report that he was able to legally buy the weapons. But if he lied on the form, he was in criminal possession from the start.

58 posted on 04/18/2007 2:32:15 PM PDT by n230099
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To: GOP_1900AD

So a DWI from 1985 keeps you from getting a LTC, but being a dangerous lunatic is a matter of privacy?


59 posted on 04/18/2007 2:32:37 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: n230099

Technically, he committed a felony by lying on the form, even before he took possession - so he was a felon in possession at that point.


60 posted on 04/18/2007 2:33:48 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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