Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

[LexHoskin]

Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall

[umgud]

THX

[dragnet2]

Agree. Very odd.

[2ndClassCitizen]

My oldest daughter was recently “accosted” by three black, (yes black) males on a deserted street where she was jogging at night (about 10:30pm). She pulled out a firearm with a laser pointer. They ran. Thank God you were not her father. Yes they ran. She is a college student and had to forget that she had a firearm when she made her police report.

The police thought that the persons who accosted her were involved in a recent killing and multiple armed robberies. PS They ran. She chased them. They ran. Again they ran. The only real dangers she faces are laws that criminalize her defending herself.

[Paved Paradise]

Precisely. Plus, if you were going to off your girlfriend and maybe some of her roomies just for spite, why carry 60+ rounds of ammo?

[happinesswithoutpeace]

“If they know who the girlfriend is, they know his ID, by now.”

Unless the girlfriend had kept him a “secret” from everyone in her life???!?

[floriduh voter]

Latest witness report "He was good looking."

Can you imagine? That proves how looks are over-rated. Some of these witnesses are probably in shock and getting on tv anyway.

[spunkets]

"oh my, I’m labeling them all again"

Yes you are.

[null and void]

Give us dirty laundry?

Or out of shear stress?

[Quix]

Seems to me, the drama is to be part of a very conservative website and cast aspersions at The Constitution.

. . . amongst other things.

[Old Sarge]

That is how I’m seeing it. I’m not 100% sold on the “crime of passion” scenario - but I don’t have enough data to call it a planned hit - but the weight of evidence is leaning towards the latter.

[meandog]

Exactly. Another one of the mysteries. You know, I got really annoyed when the President of Virginia T. said, “we have to begin healing and going on” or something like that. They haven’t even notified all the parents and he’s talking about healing!!!! These people are just unreal. How do you heal from something you haven’t even processed yet?

I hope parents of students and alumni begin calling for his head and SOON!

[glock rocks]

Meantime, we still can’t avoid the fact that the campus can do as it wants, as it is sovereign vs. the students. If college admin. wants to ban weapons, it’s not a “legal” matter anyway, because it is their property to use as they wish.

In the case of a private university, you may have a point. However, with our state operated Universities, the Utah Constitution, Utah Code, Utah Supreme Court, Legislature, and governor disagree, and concealed carry is legal on campus here.

[Quix]

An exceedingly plausible scenario, to me.

Thx.

[floriduh voter]

Obama = that’s creepy. How does he know there will be more? Many more what?

[Paved Paradise]

The only thing I can say about this is that the police are still saying it “wasn’t necessarily a boyfriend/girlfriend thing.” Anyone who knows teenagers and listens to them talking knows how they can take anything and turn it into mumbo jumbo (just filtering out the, “and um like”s is enough to take hours of time). As always, the facts in these situations are often a mish mash and by tomorrow, maybe we’ll have some more definite info.

[Zeon Cowboy]

"Should have an orange plug on the barrel but everyone paints over them."

I would never dream of painting over the tips of my Airsoft guns, especially not after something like this.

[xjcsa]

I also carry an Osama bin Laden driver license. Everyone except the folks at the airport likes it. Some people just have no sense of humor...

I suppose something about having a couple of your planes and dozens of your passengers and coworkers smashed into little pieces taking down some buildings probably dulls the sense of humor in that particular area. No idea why.

[Salvation]

Prayers for those affected by this day at Virginia Tech

[advance_copy]

UK Daily Mail:

"Sky also reported one witness describing a gunman as Asian, wearing a vest with an "ungodly" amount of ammunition, firing at will. The student newspaper has quoted a victim who described the shooter as an Asian male in his twenties wearing a maroon hat and a black coat."

[The KG9 Kid]

The fact remains that survivors are saying that they had no idea that the gunman was going around shooting until they actually saw him shooting other students.

If the VA Tech admin's hasty response was suitable in this situation, why would the above fact be the case?

The real 'blood on their hands' moment is the quashing of the CCW bill at VA Tech.