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Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin

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

(Excerpt) Read more at vtnews.vt.edu ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; vatech; virginiatech
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To: SuziQ

these are some really stupid questions being asked at this presser


2,921 posted on 04/16/2007 4:58:51 PM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: OBone
However, there is evidence that al Quida is recruiting whites and other non mid eastern looking people to commit terrorist acts. There are people all over Iraq blowing themselves up in crowded places.

Is it beyond the realm of belief that we now have people who go on massacres in places where lots of people congregate and just start shooting.

No, and shooting would be the preferred method in the US, if they thought it would lead to a disarmed country with even more soft targets...

2,922 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:09 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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To: milford421
"Did you hear that they closed all of the schools in Virginia tomorrow?"

Do you have a source on that?
2,923 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:37 PM PDT by DocRock (What would Solomon Do?)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Well, they really oughtn’t to have held this one. They are only making the grief, confusion and rage more intense for the VT community..

I, for one, am more confused now than I was before the press conf..


2,924 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:47 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet & FredFan)
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To: oceanview

It should not have taken this long for us to be told there was more than one suspect/”person-of-intrest!”


2,925 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:49 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: combat_boots

my guess is that the dude who was caught with perps gf in bed fled the building, then the perp shot the RA and his girlfriend when the arguement ensued


2,926 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:51 PM PDT by meg88
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To: milford421

Take out A. Nutjob NOW.


2,927 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:56 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Mo1

FOX just cut Greta off.


2,928 posted on 04/16/2007 4:59:59 PM PDT by maggief
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To: meg88

Why? It doesn’t make him answer the questions quicker. From previous experience (news background)...that doesn’t help!


2,929 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:01 PM PDT by N8VTXNinWV (WVU 'eer)
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To: Will_Zurmacht
We now have two seperate shooters.

If true, there is still one killer on the loose. I want to know if the murderers were on a jihad. You cannot rule that out these days, until they rule it out based on evidence.
2,930 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:15 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: CedarDave

oh, he’s not “in custody” - but they do know where he is because they interviewed him, they were interviewing him WHILE THE SECOND SHOOTING WAS TAKING PLACE.


2,931 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:17 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: meg88

Thanks for the info.


2,932 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:25 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: SE Mom

I agree.


2,933 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:34 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: ArmstedFragg

I disagree. How difficult would it have been to mobilize and have armed personnel at each building for the dual purpose of perp identification and capture, and to protect students [in what initially seemed remote] against the possibility that a fleeing armed felon having already displayed the capacity for murder to inflict future harm.

Certainly, one should withold judgment and refrain from casting blame while the bodies have yet to be buried and all facts made known. However, we who labor here and triangulate every which way pose these questions in search of answers.


2,934 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:35 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: chasio649

Me too. The only guilty person so far is the shooter. The university did nothing wrong that I have heard so far unless they knew the guy was a criminal and invited him on the campus or something like it - and this is highly unlikely.


2,935 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:44 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: milford421

with a police force like this - they should close all the VA schools in that area tomorrow.


2,936 posted on 04/16/2007 5:00:47 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: CedarDave

I can barely hear the answers & questions.


2,937 posted on 04/16/2007 5:01:06 PM PDT by meg88
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To: tcrlaf

Thank you. Funny information. If Mohammed was the perp, they ran a driver’s license check. If he was a victim, his name would not have been on the scanner...Supposedly, the perp had no ID. Fingerprints? Dental Records? I saw the FBI at the school this morning.

What the h...is being kept from the public?

Why are the schools in Virginia closed tomorrow if all is well?

The story stinks...32 dead innocents. Something’s up.


2,938 posted on 04/16/2007 5:01:17 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: pgkdan
This isn’t a high school. It’s a huge campus with a huge student population. Between students and faculty and staff there are probably more than 30,000 on campus.

Yes, and the university president is using this exact excuse......"We had no idea"....yadda, yadda yadda.... Frankly, when you hear a hundred or so gunshots........it might be the first give away.....I don't buy it...

2,939 posted on 04/16/2007 5:01:18 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: LexHoskin

VIRGINIA TECH IS A GUN-FREE ZONE -— http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1818413/posts


2,940 posted on 04/16/2007 5:01:18 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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