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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

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To: LexHoskin

Oh, dear Lord, 22 dead and 28 wounded. It’s almost unbelievable! Prayers up for families and wounded.


901 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:09 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: elk

My point is, if you are 21 you have a right to drink alcahol, but you cannot go to class with alchahol, you cannot go into sports games with alcahol. I have no problem with someone having the right to carry, but in college class rooms isn’t the place.


902 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:11 AM PDT by shoedog
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To: freeperfromnj
Disgusting opportunists...

Yep. This may be that landmark event that the antigun zealots have been hoping for - our own version of Dunblane on which they can build a hyperemotional campaign to enact something, anything, quick before anyone can think it over. The media pressure is going to be as intense on the issue as anything we've ever experienced. It will happen, they've been waiting for it.

903 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:21 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: goodnesswins

“don’t tell, don’t show”

Yep.


904 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:30 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: utvolsfan13
I’m in college and I would feel incredibly uncomfortable going to class surrounded my random people with firearms.

My FRiend, I bet you are already surrounded by random people w/firearms. Many people, w/and w/o permits, are not going to let themselves become victims because someone thinks that criminals are going to stop engaging in criminal activity just because it's a gun-free zone.

There's a saying, 'Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.'Many people, including many women, see the truth in that saying and will not let anti-constitutionalists determine their personal safety.

905 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:42 AM PDT by radiohead (They call me DOCTOR radiohead.)
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To: r9etb
As a matter of fact, I can't recall a single case where school shooters had been thwarted by armed civilians -- even though some of those shootings have occurred in places where personal firearms ownership is common.

I can think of several: Paducah, KY, that law school in NY, outside that courthouse in TX, and that's in about 30 seconds of thinking.

906 posted on 04/16/2007 10:30:47 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Danae

Rubber gloves = hazmat suits?


907 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:04 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: r9etb

do a little more research....there was one in Oregon a few years ago....that I can remember.....I’m sure there are more.


908 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:34 AM PDT by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

There were bomb threats on April 2nd and April 13th


909 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:38 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: jdm
I don't know where you went to college, but my professors didn't even wake up until 6 or 7AM. I don't think my comment was naive at all.

THe point is, the professor wakes up in the student's bed.

Maybe a littel naive.

Cheers . . .
910 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:42 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: r9etb

school shooters have been thwarted by armed civilians. Pretty rare because armed civilians not allowed in schools. One case in Virginia I know about, but news reports hid the fact about it being an armed civilian that took out the shooter. That’s why you don’t read about it, media hides cases of people defending themselves with guns and overplays tragedies.


911 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:55 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: JeffAtlanta

It is the daily press conference that the White House gives. It is not done specially for this shootings in Virginia Tech.


912 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:56 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: flashbunny

Furthermore, in this presidency, the President has to come out quickly or he gets hammered by the press for not being involved quick enough (e.g., the Pet Goat smears ala Moore and his leftist ilk).


913 posted on 04/16/2007 10:31:58 AM PDT by deputac (NYPD & FDNY: The Other Twin Towers of New York)
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To: tcrlaf

You gotta be kiddin’ me!


914 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:06 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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Massacre at Virginia Tech: 25 Confirmed Dead

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574

915 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:06 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: utvolsfan13
My dad and the rest of the JROTC used to bring their guns into classrooms in HIGH SCHOOL.
916 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:07 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Mac94
That’s probably very unfair ... but the thought is there

I don't really think that a specific finger can be pointed anywhere. I guess that I was just lamenting the fact that:

a)in the name of "safety", the campus put people in a position where no one could do anything.

b)People that potentially were in a position to act, didn't (or couldn't because of a) )

I lay this solely at the feet of those that condition people to believe that guns are evil and that since *they* could never responsibly carry a gun, than no one can.

917 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:16 AM PDT by wbill
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To: markomalley

Guy on hold with Prager said the shooter is identified as fugitive that had been featured on AMW. Dennis’ going back to him in 2 minutes.


918 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:17 AM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: utvolsfan13
Little boy, if that’s how you feel about college students, the mind reels at what you must think of a Marine infantry platoon, average age 19. We’re talking MACHINE GUNS, for all hands, both magazine and belt fed, grenades, launchers, pointed sticks, and they’ve been trained to be very unsympathetic.

Perhaps you have been gelded, but there are others who have not.

919 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:42 AM PDT by jonascord ("Don't shoot 'em! Let 'em burn!...")
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Yes, 2 bomb threats...one was on April 2, I believe. The other last week.


920 posted on 04/16/2007 10:32:44 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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