Posted on 04/16/2007 11:14:52 AM PDT by processing please hold
Eyewitnesses at Virginia Tech university have been emailing the BBC News website describing the scene at the campus, where at least 22 people have been killed and more injured.
Read a selection of them below, as they come in.
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Just like in every state that has CCW permits, right!
NOT!
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They would only have to shoot the person holding the gun.
Unless some brave student or teacher had also ingored the "gun free zone" and was going after the perp. Can't assume that only the perp is armed. (Several mass shootings have been stopped by just those types of people, although the MSM never reports those facts.)
Its like the drug free zones around schools...yeah right...
Just heard FBI said they called school and asked why there was not locked-down. Someone on phone said sorry we are buisy and hung up! --- Lives could have been saved and someones head is gonna roll.
Just think on a fri or sat nite after a big game that was lost, and about 20 beers...
Wouldn't that be considered a felony? Do you think they would risk breaking that golden rule considering the consequences if they were caught or would they obey it?
I believe in most states CCW's (and often pistol ownership) are limited to those 21 and older. With luck you would have an armed professor, maintanance guy or cook.
Just because I disagee with you doesn't make me ignorant. We have 15 million college students. If you think that arming them all with handguns will make college campuses safer, you are nuts. How many college students are killed by guns now each year on campus? Using one incident like today's to make policy does not place this tragedy in the proper context. This is a very rare occurrence. The chances of getting shot on campus are probably less than being struck by lightning. And you can still be shot even if armed.
BTW, how old do you think most of our troops are? Last I checked, they carry guns. Do you think the rules for carrying are different for 18 to 22 year olds? The penalties for using a firearm improperly? Can 18 to 22 year olds drive (cars kill far more than firearms every year)?
Using your logic, we should start arming 17 and 18 year olds in high school.
You post is the pinacle of feeling-based abject stupidity.
It has nothing to do with feeling, but rather thinking. I don't agree with the rationale for arming 15 million college students because of an isolated incident.
WRONG. There will be 5,000 articles about how Bush's illegal war is creating all these terrorists.
PravdABDNC is waiting to find out if he is Mooselimb or Christian to decide how to cover this.
Pray for W and Va Tech
Depends on the state. Where this has happened, though, the DA usually quietly decides not to prosecute. Actually, I've never heard of a prosecution in these circumstances (in the US that is -- in the UK, you're likely to do more time than the perp).
I was in a shooting at my company, (ESL, 9 dead, 5 more injured), and there is no way anyone could prepare for it.
Every instance is different. There is little information going on.
I was very lucky to get out. I wasn’t in my office, but in someone else’s office when a co-worker said that there was a man with a gun shooting people.
You couldn’t use pre-planned exits because we didn’t know where he was. Lots of people climbed up in the roofs and hid.
I got out quickly because I was close to an exit on the opposite side of the building.
It also takes time for SWAT to get there. All of the victims were killed in the first few minutes way before the police got there.
I just ran outside and then through another building, and all the way across our company’s campus.
No way can teach common sense, and that’s what you need in this kind of situation. You can’t panic, but use common sense.
They were hiding behind the cars in Columbine.
The pictures I have seen of this tragedy show heavily armed police outside and students carrying other students out to safety.
It’s starting to look like the same reaction as in Columbine.
LOL. I remember those nights well. I used to make my own beer 30 gallons at a time. I also worked as a bartender and saw more than my fair share of drunks and fights. And this was on 2% beer.
I can just imagine what it would be like in the dorms with people cleaning their weapons, checking them out, etc. Accidents waiting to happen. I saw enough of it in the military and we were checked out on the weapons.
We know who the media wants this to be.
I’m thinking about that guy in NY on the subway who shot those thugs. His name escapes me. Wasn’t he charged?
I just look at where I live on any given nite. There seems to be a shooting at least 3 or 4 times a week around clubs that cater to kids of college age.
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