Posted on 10/30/2007 8:39:59 PM PDT by george76
Virginia Tech officials gave out more than $8.5 million on Monday to people who were wounded, lost loved ones or survived the shootings at the Blacksburg campus on April 16.
The "bulk" of the money, according to university President Charles Steger, was being disbursed "to 79 families and individuals."
"There is no right way to disburse these monies, but we believe the best way to continue the healing is to put as much as possible in the hands of those who have suffered most," ...
some of the recipients will get "the disbursements over time in the form of free tuition."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...
So they are admitting complicity in the murders by disarming the students and faculty?
I would not send a kid to school there until the “gun-free zone(TM)” thing is gone. Simple.
Consider me stupid, but why is VT libel for a freakazid going berserk on their campus?
Because they forbade legal, trained permit holders from carrying on campus.
It's not like they're unique in the Commonwealth. Other public higher-learning institutions, including U.Va., where I am studying, maintain the same policy.
I work with a VT grad who had a carry permit while attending VT. He followed the rules and never carried while on campus.
If he had it to do all over again....knowing what he knows now......
He would have broken all the rules.
I was streaming the news on that day in my office and he was standing there, crying his eyes out.....
My bro-in-law, VA Tech alumni, happened to have the Tech website up the morning of the shootings, and so he instant messaged his son who was in the dorms at Tech, who happened to just be leaving for class, to STAY PUT. That was the FIRST my nephew heard of it. Good thing my b.i.l. had that website up.
Just as it was madness to pay millions out to families or significant others of civilians killed on 9/11.
I must be callous — but I never understood the rationale for that...
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