At least 20 dead in campus shootings at Virginia Tech

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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Reynaldo6 wrote:
    was the killer a student?

    Haven't heard yet.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    i don't think this sort of behaviour is necessarily new ... it's just a lot easier to go on a rampage now then it was before ... can only speculate somone's motives but in the end - there are enough of these a year to know that this behaviour isn't isolated ... and that we can continue to expect more ...
  • wavin_goodbye
    wavin_goodbye Posts: 135
    condolences from montreal :(..
  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    There is a video on the sky news website that was taken by a student on their phone, can just hear loads of shots being fired. You dont see much but its still quite distressing when you know what was happening.
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  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Sky News is also reporting that the gunman lined the students up and shot them one by one. It's so tragic, i feel for everyone involved.
    "This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

  • ||Release_Me||
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    stu gee wrote:
    There is a video on the sky news website that was taken by a student on their phone, can just hear loads of shots being fired. You dont see much but its still quite distressing when you know what was happening.


    The Sky News channel just showed that clip again. It's very scary indeed.
    "This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

  • Chris1401
    Chris1401 Posts: 354
    Man, this is brutal to watch and listen to, being on a college campus myself.

    When I was in my undergraduate studies I would be in huge lecture halls with 150 to 300 students...now with a semi-automatic or even a handgun, imagine the damage one person could do?

    I wont debate guns here, but how to do adequately secure open campuses without creating an atmosphere that would stifle the open and creative characteristics college campuses normally encompass?
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    Praying for the students, their families, the faculty and staff at VT, and the community of Blacksburg. This is a terrible terrible incident.

    And any attempt to turn this into a discussion or make some kind of pointed remark about gun control before bodies are even cold is a shameless pathetic show of political opportunism.
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    dkst0426 wrote:
    Praying for the students, their families, the faculty and staff at VT, and the community of Blacksburg. This is a terrible terrible incident.

    And any attempt to turn this into a discussion or make some kind of pointed remark about gun control before bodies are even cold is a shameless pathetic show of political opportunism.

    Gun control is not about politics its about public safety.
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    Abuskedti wrote:
    Gun control is not about politics its about public safety.
    The practice may be so, but the debate? All about politics.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    ||Release_Me|| wrote:
    Sky News is also reporting that the gunman lined the students up and shot them one by one. It's so tragic, i feel for everyone involved.
    Execution style. This is overwhelming.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Abuskedti wrote:
    Gun control is not about politics its about public safety.

    Nope ... Its a political issue that pretends to concern itself more with public safety. Some peoples' hearts are surely in the right place, granted.
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Hey guys, I started a gun debate thread so we could keep this one strictly to discussing information about the shooting and giving our sympathies. theres no reason someone should have to sift through 10 pages of endless gun control debate to learn something new about what happened or to read what has gone through everyone else's heart.
  • Low_Light03
    Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Tragic news. I can't believe he killed so many. 31 was the total so far last I heard, and 29 injured. Poor families and students.
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  • whitepants
    whitepants Posts: 729
    If this doesn't reopen the debate for tougher gun laws, then we will be seeing a lot more of this. Unstable fuckers taking out their frustrations on innocent people and murdering them by the dozens.

    My heart and prayers go out to all the murder victims, the surviving victims and all their friends and families. :(
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Hey guys, I started a gun debate thread so we could keep this one strictly to discussing information about the shooting and giving our sympathies. theres no reason someone should have to sift through 10 pages of endless gun control debate to learn something new about what happened or to read what has gone through everyone else's heart.

    Great idea
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  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    reborncareerist wrote:
    Nope ... Its a political issue that pretends to concern itself more with public safety. Some peoples' hearts are surely in the right place, granted.


    Thanks for your point of view.. I prefer to think that some people's aren't.
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    im relatively unstable...but i dont hurt anything :)
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    On a slightly more positive note:

    How many more students would've been in that building were it not for the campus-wide email, text messages, IMs, etc.? I've already heard at least 3 different accounts of students who were on their way to class hearing from friends who don't even go to school at VT. 30+ are dead, yes, but the technology we take so much for granted definitely played a part in helping save at least a few lives today.
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    dkst0426 wrote:
    Praying for the students, their families, the faculty and staff at VT, and the community of Blacksburg. This is a terrible terrible incident.

    And any attempt to turn this into a discussion or make some kind of pointed remark about gun control before bodies are even cold is a shameless pathetic show of political opportunism.

    just makes one thats pro gun realize a major weakness in their position.
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