Thread: Virginia Tech Shootings

Originally Posted by VirginiaBob

Would he have attacked if the whole campus was packing?

Quite frankly, I would feel even less safe if that were the case. He was a smart guy, but obviously nuts and out of touch with reality. I doubt this person would have even cared.

Originally Posted by Wrngway

Quite frankly, I would feel even less safe if that were the case. He was a smart guy, but obviously nuts and out of touch with reality. I doubt this person would have even cared.

Whether he would have cared or not - no matter. The fact is he would have likely been taken down earlier.

Originally Posted by VirginiaBob

Since these guns were obtained illegally (the serial numbers were chiseled off), this is all a mute point.
Maybe the reason why this ended in so many deaths is because of the fact that the VT campus is a gun-free zone. Would he have attacked if the whole campus was packing?

Actually, he bought both guns legally in Roanoke, Virginia. He filed off the serial numbers, but had the gun receipt in his wallet. Weird.

Originally Posted by VirginiaBob

Maybe the reason why this ended in so many deaths is because of the fact that the VT campus is a gun-free zone. Would he have attacked if the whole campus was packing?

Are you kidding? Drunk/high college students packing guns? Guns in the classroom? Professors packing guns to protect themselves from the students? I wouldn't send my son to a university where everyone was packing.

Mayor of Japanese city dies after being shot.

No one is "allowed" to pack in Japan... So much for gun laws...

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi..._shot_by_gang/

Rokid, I think your absolutely correct, any place that attracts young people is always going to invite explosive situations, the last thing we need to do is add more fuel by arming the students (however, the professors?...that may not be such a bad idea - even if it is only with a rubber bullets, a tazer gun or something non-lethal). I live near a college town and get e-mail alerts from the University (which is a very good school in the suburbs) On average, I get an alert about some college kid getting robbed at gun-point (usually at night) about every three or four days. I remember college...I was broke...we got people running amuck with guns praying on college kids for ray-bans, a twenty dollar bill and bottle opener...and a lot of them do turn out to be college kids themselves. I think the universities football & basketball teams are responsible for the largest chunk of the violent crime - they get arrested about once a month. I bet the enrollment rate for Virginia Tech is down next year.

Originally Posted by rokid

Are you kidding? Drunk/high college students packing guns? Guns in the classroom? Professors packing guns to protect themselves from the students? I wouldn't send my son to a university where everyone was packing.

Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks

By Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo. - A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.
During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, the student "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said.
Several witnesses told investigators the student said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.
The student, identified by police as Max Karson of Denver, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of interfering with staff, faculty or students of an education institution. He had a court appearance set for Wednesday afternoon.
His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.
"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said privacy laws prevented him from releasing personal information about the student.
At Oregon's Lewis & Clark College, another student was detained by campus police Wednesday shortly before a vigil for the Virginia Tech victims when he was spotted wearing an ammunition belt. Portland police later determined that it was "a fashion accessory" made of spent ammunition, and said the man did not have a weapon. The belt was confiscated.

Originally Posted by Griffin

I bet the enrollment rate for Virginia Tech is down next year.

Griffin,

I hope not. VTech is a tremendous engineering school. Liberal Arts students may look elsewhere, e.g. University of Virginia, William and Mary, James Madison and George Mason. However, the best engineering students go to VTech.

This is like the third incident in the last 100 years in Montgomery County VA (Blacksburg, Radford, Roanoke). Unfortunately two of them took place this school year. In August, an escaped convict killed one or two law enforcement people.

Finally, I read in the Washington Post that the Korean community in Northern Virginia (52,000) is really upset about this incident. They've already offered support to the victim's families.

Terrible incident for everyone.