I wish they'd post more pics today like this one of killers. Maybe people wouldn't think it was so 'glamorous'.
Posted on 12/27/2012 2:25:21 PM PST by bgill
RIP. I long for the days when a gunmen shooting from a tower prompted citizens to grab their constitutionally protected rifles and head to campus to return fire.
A great hero. I’m glad he lived a long life.
Whitman did not commit the “largest mass murder in US history”. Reporters are idiots incapable of doing even the most basic research.
It says ‘at the time’..
Then came the copy-cats.
God,I remember that day as if it were yesterday.
A horror show.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2972741/posts?page=1
Nearby thread. Mother Jones magazine says that armed civilians have never stopped a mass shooting. I recognize that McCoy was an officer, not a civilian, but it still bears mentioning. A killer was stopped because a good guy had a gun.
RIP Officer McCoy.
The Bath School Massacre occurred decades before Whitman’s rampage.
I wish they'd post more pics today like this one of killers. Maybe people wouldn't think it was so 'glamorous'.
None of the weapons used were assault rifles.
True. They don’t like to mention bombs.
Remember this very well
There was a made for tv show about the shootings
and this brave mans actions stopping Whittman
RIP.
Thanks for the post. Great picture of the sicko! I was 18 years old working a summer construction job building the top floor of a girls dormitory 3 blocks away and heard ever shot!
At the time, it was reported that a hipanic police officer named Martinez and a civilian shot and killed Whitman. This is what I have always understood. So, something seems not right here with this report.
According to the “official” story, Houston and Martinez both took him down. They were both up there for sure and stopped him. Amazing that you heard it.
Yes. . I seem to recall a made-for-TV-movie that showed the hispanic guy taking down the shooter, when (if I recall correctly), it was the Caucasian officer. Seems I recall quite a few people were upset that the movie was making PC points at the expense of facts and history.
They wanted to do research on his brain but they couldn’t because it was pretty much liquified from all the shots to his head.
They wanted to do research on his brain but they couldn’t because it was pretty much liquified from all the shots to his head.
As do I. My uncle taught there. I remember my parents calling over and over again trying to reach him or someone with information.
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