Virginia Tech Distributes Funds to Shooting Victims

WJLA 7 DC ^ | Oct 30, 2007 | not specified

[RDTF]

Virginia Tech officials said Tuesday they have distributed more than $8.5 million in donations to help victims of the April shootings.

Families of the 32 people killed by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho were eligible for cash or a combination of funds and endowed scholarships in the victims' names. Money also went to more than two dozen who were injured in the classroom building when Cho killed 30 people and then himself on April 16th. Payments also were made to people who were uninjured but were in the classrooms during the shooting rampage.

University President Charles Steger said a total of 21,000 donations were received after the shootings.

The money came from private donations made to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, which will accept donations through the end of the year.

[HokieMom]

Hokie Spirit

[krb]

Payments also were made to people who were uninjured but were in the classrooms during the shooting rampage.

I didn't realize there were many of those people. I wonder which classrooms qualified.

[Tax-chick]

They’re giving people money for being in the same room with people who were shot?

[krb]

Apparently. It doesn’t say how close to the action the Norris people had to be to qualify.

[Tax-chick]

How interesting.

[Continental Soldier]

Good that families of the deceased recieved something from Virginia Tech, a school that failed to follow through on information they had about the killer, failed to provide campus security, and even failed to post adaquate warnings of a murderer-on-campus!

[basil]

Even after all of this, the school still fails to allow armed citizens, including qualified staff and students, to be able to defend themselves from further attacks. Some folks are just slow learners, I suppose.

[Continental Soldier]

Officials and students at Virginia Tech are too busy for such concerns, too busy kneeling at the shrine of Michael Vick.

[Eaglefixer]

As an old Hokie, 55-63, I was a slow learner. But the way VT has gone PC leaves me sad. It didn’t use to be that way. In the old days it was mostly an engineering school but that has changed more to other disciplines.

[basil]

Sadly, it's not only VT---it's nearly every school in this country.

At Second Amendment Sisters, we are working very hard to change peoples' thinking.

We would like to see every school become a "Safety Zone"--ie, with armed teachers,qualified school workers, visitors and qualified students.

With concealed carry, the bad guys will not know who and how many are armed, so they will not be so quick to attack any school.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Even after all of this, the school still fails to allow armed citizens, including qualified staff and students, to be able to defend themselves from further attacks. Some folks are just slow learners, I suppose."

I have family there. One is a die-cast liberal. We were talking, and he raised the point that guns are too easy to get. I wheeled towards him slowly, and noted: "There's a Kroger's a couple blocks away, and a movie theater. In those places you are surrounded by dozens of your fellow citizens who are packing. If Cho tried to round up people to slaughter there like he did at VT, his life expectancy would be measured in seconds. There would be no way he could murder thirty people." My liberal relative just sneered and went on about how Cho shouldn't have been allowed by the government to have guns in the first place. Which is true enough, but government is incompetent, and that's why sane people are armed.

[GAD]

Cheap shot.

You’re a fool.

[Corin Stormhands]

Officials and students at Virginia Tech are too busy for such concerns, too busy kneeling at the shrine of Michael Vick.

That's just a dumb@$$ statement.