OT - Horrible Shootings at Va Tech

ellice · 2007-04-16T16:55:38+00:00

Yikes - evidently some escaped prisoner got onto campus, shot someone on the4th floor of a primarily freshaman, large dorm. Then moved on to a mainEngineering Building - with horrid consequences. As of now, they're sayingthat 21 VT students are dead, 21 wounded, and the gunman dead as well. Bigdoings - the campus admin sent out an e-mail to all the students at 10:53teeling them to get safe, they're in a lockdown, etc. Va Tech is in a smalltown, outside of Roanoke, and evidently the police chief didn't want to saythat the shootings were related. But, the worst violence what happened inNorris Hall. So, for horrible notoriety - this is now the "worst" campusshooting incident in US History.So, we're glad that the godson is in Australia on semester abroad, and noton compus - but worried about those we know who could've been in theengineering building at the time.Yuck. So, that campus is shut down for the day, and they've not said aboutclasses, etc for tomorrow. Pretty awful.Ellice

Apr 16, 2007 62 Replies

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ellice 19 years ago

It takes a lot of such stuff to make much of a bomb - and it's messy.

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ellice 19 years ago

Gee, I haven't heard any rumours like that here in the DC beltway vicinity - even from the most ardent haters, or friends in close enough places to have some inkling. Of course, you are on the Left Coast, so who knows what rumours would make the denizens happy to spread.

Don't think there is any danger of such a ludicrous thing. While I don't agree with much in politics - GWB does seem to kind of be a strict constitutionalist - hence no emperor or martial law declarations would fall in with that. Just my HO.

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