Anyone know how to get ahold of deathbyhokie? Doesn't he go there, or has he already graduated? Any idea at all?
Also, what's with all these crazy people shooting up schools? For real.
Just heard on tv, 22 dead, 28 injured... Gunman shot himself.
Scary.
Bah, they always say the gunman shot themselves to take the blame off of the police.
I just watched a cell phone video showing some of the action. It was indeed pretty scary.
I just saw this on the news 😞 Fucked up. The shooting-up-random-colleges thing is getting weird... I hope dbh is okay. Also, 22 people dead = lots of people-shooting practice? Wtf.
Fuck that stupid ass hole who did that. Fuck him.
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Another one? Why the fuck do these idiots go around shooting up schools? It's just sickening....
My heart goes out to anyone injured (or who knows someone injured) in the attack.
bigjoe wrote:Bah, they always say the gunman shot themselves to take the blame off of the police.
I just read that it's unclear whether the gunman shot himself or if the police shot him...
Aegix Drakan wrote:...Another one? Why the fuck do these idiots go around shooting up schools? It's just sickening....
Somewhere along the line they decide that it's better to be known for a horrible tragedy than to wallow in obscurity. It's the same thing that has driven a lot of high profile violence like the JFK assassination and Columbine.
This is truly horrible.
i was just keeping tabs on the news, and the death toll has risen to 32 dead at this point.
reading ticker at the bottom (FoxNews), although i didn't quite catch itn, but it said something to the effect of the shooter might have been looking for his girlfriend (this is unconfirmed, just something i thought i saw).
32's what I heard as well. I caught this a couple of hours ago before I went over to babysit someone who insisted on watching Coronation Street (Shock! Someone who'd worked 20 hours straight fell down a set of steps and died!), so I haven't had a chance to learn more.
Sky News has this down as 'The worst School shooting incident in the US', which is a little worrying by what that statement doesn't include. Have we had worse elsewhere?
Honestly though, how could someone do something like this? 32 lives snuffed out just by the pulling of a piece of metal. It's a scary thought.
Darth Marsden wrote: 32 lives snuffed out just by the pulling of a piece of metal.
Unfortunately, 32 lives in one day is peanuts compared to what humans have achieved in the past and are reaching towards in the future.
Isn't that the truth.
It's pretty horrible from what I've heard so far. But we've seen this sort of thing happen so many times. We already know what to expect. And honestly I doubt this person or any of the other shooters were actually good/accurate shooters. People like in the media just seem to assume these people were deadly trained killers. The primary reason firearms came about was because they are so horribly easy to use. It takes alot of skill and strength, not to mention time to train something like an archer. But you can just give anyone a gun and tell them point this end at what you want to die and squeeze your finger.
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Figured i'd alleviate any worry amongst those who still remeber me. I'm no where near campus anymore.
deathbyhokie wrote:< Is okFigured i'd alleviate any worry amongst those who still remeber me. I'm no where near campus anymore.
YOU WERE THE FIRST PERSON I THOUGHT OF!
I was sitting here like, "Omg, DBH!" and one of my co-workers looked at me funny. Ha.
Glad you'e far away.
Man this is insane. When the Columbine shootings happened I was only in elementry school but still lived 5 minutes from there. Now I move to Virginia and live about an hour from VA Tech. Good thing I'm only in high school *shudders*. It has been insane here in Virginia today. Almost every single channel is broadcasting reports about this and everyone is freaking out. Yup it's been one nasty monday here.
The police were really stupid here. I mean, even after the first shootings they didn't bother to lock down the campus? What kind of moronic idea is that.
Amaster42 wrote:The police were really stupid here. I mean, even after the first shootings they didn't bother to lock down the campus? What kind of moronic idea is that.
They didn't lock the campus down because it was an isolated incident. All in one place.
I thought of Hokie too <3 hokie <3<3<3
I find it strange that one guy with pistols was able to kill 32 people and injure countless others. It's pretty hard to get actually KILLED by those things from what I know, when threatened by one you're usually told to run even when injured etc. Although I guess there were a lot of people at close range, it seems hard to pull off without at least one other person/accomplice/massive strategy. Just a thought 😞
This is terrible. I heard about this on the news. It's people like this that ruin it for everybody else. Especially for those 32 and their families/friends. Geez.
Still...maybe after this, they'll think about investing in some better security. Unfortunately, since it seems to have a pretty big campus...I doubt they'll be 100% secure. At least stop something like this from happening anytime soon.
P.S. Don't know you, but glad you're safe, hokie.
Lilith wrote:I find it strange that one guy with pistols was able to kill 32 people and injure countless others. It's pretty hard to get actually KILLED by those things from what I know, when threatened by one you're usually told to run even when injured etc. Although I guess there were a lot of people at close range, it seems hard to pull off without at least one other person/accomplice/massive strategy. Just a thought 😞
The .22 pistol isn't as likely to cause instant/quick death unless to the head, however the 9mm pistol he had, esspecially with hollow points (not sure if he used those), is very deadly. Ofcourse it all depends precisely where the bullets hit. Many people might underestimate handguns compare to rifles and automatic weapons, but a pistol is plenty deadly. They say the main reason he did so much damage was because he had many extra clips for the 9mm pistol, though they didn't really say what kind of .22 calibre pistol he had though it too could have been semi-automatic.
They didn't lock the campus down because it was an isolated incident. All in one place.
I'm glad Hokie and Plissken are ok. 😊
...what sickens me most about this kind of thing is that the people injured are KIDS (well...relatively speaking. They're really young adults, but whatever). The people hurt by this are all innocent, and don't deserve this.
They always pick on the helpless. Students, the Amish, the disabled, and those who aren't strong enough to stand up for themselves. It just shows everone just how retarded the human race as a whole is (with some minor exceptions).
Aegix Drakan wrote:I'm glad Hokie and Plissken are ok. 😊
Yeah, that was a really close call for Plissken, living only an hour away. I'd be scared shitless in his situation.
Yeah good thing I'm only in high school. Although the only colleges I'm even interested in are out of state it still is pretty freaky.
Plissken wrote:Yeah good thing I'm only in high school.
Count is up to 33... http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
MottZilla wrote:The primary reason firearms came about was because they are so horribly easy to use. It takes a lot of skill and strength, not to mention time to train something like an archer. But you can just give anyone a gun and tell them point this end at what you want to die and squeeze your finger.
33 people. I just wish these people would tell us WHY. If we knew that, maybe we could work to stop things like this from happening.
Darth Marsden wrote:33 people. I just wish these people would tell us WHY. If we knew that, maybe we could work to stop things like this from happening.
Because they're a cocktail mix of evil, crazy, and bastard. Anybody who could even CONSIDER performing such an act is one sick fucker.
Good to know you're okay, though, DBH.
What amuses me is how the newspapers over here report it. The Daily Telegraph (which my parents get) has 'Lone gunman kills 32 in rampage at US university', while the Sun (which we don't get because it's rubbish) has '32 Killed By Love Row Student', despite it not being confirmed that the killer had gone for his ex-girlfriend. Oh yes, we love the Sun.
Darth Marsden wrote:Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make. It seems anyone can buy a gun in the US these days. I'm suddenly reminded of a section from Fahrenheit 9/11, that Michael Moore film, with the gun you can get when opening a bank account... Yikes.
You shouldn't believe anything in Fahrenheit 9/11 was unbiased reporting. I wish I got a gun when I opened a bank account.
The only way this could have been stopped is if someone in the area had a gun and defended themselves.