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Old 04-16-2007, 11:45 AM
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Is anyone else following this story? Every news outlet is reporting something different, but they think 31 people have been killed and another 28 wounded. Holy crap what a tragic day.
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 12:02 PM
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I just got home from work and started watching the news about it. It's F***ing crazy. They are saying the shooter took his own life. If your going to kill yourself, why go on a shooting rampage, jesus, all those innocent lives. I know quite a few ppl that went to school there and have been to that campus many times. Unbelievable.
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 12:13 PM
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Such a terrible thing.
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 01:47 PM
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31 killed not including the shooter. Some kids were injured when they jumped from 2nd story trying to get away.
 
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Sad, its what our world is becoming!
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 02:31 PM
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wow, what a horrible day. It's really hard to imagine someone with a hand gun being able to shoot that many people.....I will be crazy to see how many shots the guy really did fire...doesn't a 9mm pistol hold like 12 rounds or something like that? That would mean a lot of re-loading and firing again. just tragic.
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 03:13 PM
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I heard it is up to 33 people killed. What is going on in peoples heads?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vte...ing/index.html
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 03:52 PM
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I'm not understanding something about this whole thing.....so the guy goes on campus, shoots a few people and 2 hours later starts shooting again? Why the hell weren't the cops there in force before the 2nd rampage went on? Some things just aren't adding up.....and 1 guy did all of the shooting? That's crazy stuff.
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by jjtgiants
I'm not understanding something about this whole thing.....so the guy goes on campus, shoots a few people and 2 hours later starts shooting again? Why the hell weren't the cops there in force before the 2nd rampage went on? Some things just aren't adding up.....and 1 guy did all of the shooting? That's crazy stuff.
Those are my thoughts exactly. The comment above about the blame game being played now is totally off base. Its not like a student got shot in some off campus setting. This actually happened on campus and was a student shooting other students. The school should have been shut down and the police should have been there looking for that little bastard, just as jttgiants pointed out.

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Old 04-16-2007, 05:34 PM
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Guys, keep it reasonable in here. If you wanna start beef, take it to the smackdown. Keep this thread for information only.

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Old 04-16-2007, 05:56 PM
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Yeah, there is no need for the name calling. My feelings are truly hurt...

My point about the blame game was that the person that made the initial comment was being all sarcastic about people blaming the school. I said that it was offbase, because the school should be blamed. You need to read the initial comment before you start accusing me of contradicting myself or being ignorant.

Even if they didn't cancel classes, they could have made sure to get the news out and make sure people knew, so that they could make their own decisions. I mean, you give examples where only certain areas are closed off after a crime or whatever. If something like that happened at a mall like the example you gave, I sure as hell am not going to be anywhere near there, for the same reason as what happened today. Once all the focus goes to that specific area, it makes other areas vulnerable.

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Old 04-16-2007, 07:22 PM
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Oh yeah yer right scott.

The school is to blame. Of course they should have evacuated all 9000 students living on campus, all 26,000 students enrolled, and pulled out the national guard to secure and clear all 100 buildings because somone got shot.

What were they thinking.
wnracing...i was actually being sarcastic about my feelings being hurt. you didn't have to apologize lol. It's funny how you tell it one way but the quotes I have read in the numerous have students saying that they didn't receive any news about it until the second shooting started taking place.

Jack...I never said to officially evacuate the campus. They could have cancelled class to keep students in their homes, dorms whatever, where they could lock their doors to help protect themselves. If they chose not to, then that would be their choice. If they chose for themselves to evacuate then fine too. There are quotes in the articles as well about some students leaving campus and not staying in their dorms and heading to friends' homes off campus and such after hereing the news.

And I'll just end with this. You guys want to criticize me because you claim I act like I am 100% correct, but what are you guys doing to me? You are putting me down because I am wrong, according to you all. How hypocritical is that? It is all opinion. They made the decision they felt was best but hey, people make mistakes, and they should suffer the consequences. If enough people feel that they did make a mistake, then they will.

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Old 04-16-2007, 07:26 PM
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All I know is someone is to blame, 1 person killed 2 people in a dorm, was missing for two hours, and the students were not informed until just before the second shooting started (by email, of all things).

The fact that ONE person was able to kill 33 people and that the only reason it stopped is because he took his own life is ridiculous and very very unfortunate.
 
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All I know is someone is to blame, 1 person killed 2 people in a dorm, was missing for two hours, and the students were not informed until just before the second shooting started (by email, of all things).

The fact that ONE person was able to kill 33 people and that the only reason it stopped is because he took his own life is ridiculous.
THANK YOU!!!!!!

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we'll know more in the days to come. I'm not going to put blame on the school because I have no idea what really happened and it's always easy to blame something or someone after the fact. I just find it very strange that the shootings took part on the same campus, but two hours apart from one another....

So the cops showed up at the first shooting and didn't even think the at large shooter could still be on campus? Regardless if they thought it was an isolated event, and who would have ever thought someone would have done this, but you'd think they would have been searching the campus?.....who knows maybe they were. I'm not blaming anyone, it all just sounds a little strange at this point.

Others have pointed out that VA Tech is pretty much like a small city so it wasn't like they could just evacuate people in minutes, but damn how did a guy with two pistols shoot so many people?? Time will tell.
 
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How sad...there are some serious ****ed up people in this world...
 
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From what im hearing he took those 2 hours chaining all the exits in a building shut, started shooting then just blasted everyone as they were trapped.
I guess that's why he was able to hit so many people. Nobody saw some guy chaining the doors? strange.
 
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Old 04-17-2007, 10:15 AM
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They also said that he was wearing a vest with numerous clips. Thats how he got so many shots off. Since he was using a 9mm he could reload in a matter of seconds and just keep firing.
 


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