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arrettinator
Apr 16, 2007, 4:52 PM
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people and wounding another 21 before he was killed, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/...cVEzqSNGfZUADwes0NUE
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stonefoxgirl
Apr 16, 2007, 5:07 PM
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I just read about this on CNN.com. How terrible.
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rogue10186
Apr 16, 2007, 5:25 PM
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I just saw this on the news after getting off work, thats some scarry shit, I hope nothing like that ever happens here at LSU...
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climbingbetty22
Apr 16, 2007, 5:43 PM
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My god, that's horrifying. I see this kind of stuff with increasing frequency on the new today and I have to ask myself what kind of world I'm living in and what kind of world my kids are going to have to grow up in?
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rrrADAM
Apr 16, 2007, 6:51 PM
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31 dead, 29 wounded as of 3PM EST according to CNN. 
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pinktricam
Apr 16, 2007, 6:55 PM
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The sick irony is that it happened on the week of the Columbine mass murder rampage 8 yrs. ago...4/20/99.
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reno
Apr 16, 2007, 7:13 PM
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Just tragic. Horribly, horribly tragic.
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pinktricam
Apr 16, 2007, 7:17 PM
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climbingbetty22 wrote: My god, that's horrifying. I see this kind of stuff with increasing frequency on the new today and I have to ask myself what kind of world I'm living in and what kind of world my kids are going to have to grow up in?
You're not imagining things. Here's a scary timeline:
"Until today, only one other school massacre notched up a higher death toll than Columbine. The Bath School disaster in 1927 saw 45 people die in a series of bombings in Bath Township in Michigan. Most of the victims were young school children. The killer was a school board member, Andrew Kehoe, who was upset by a property tax that had been levied to pay for the construction of the school building.
Some of the worst shooting incidents inside US schools and universities in recent years:
August 1966: Charles Whitman is one of the most notorious names among America’s mass killers. In August 1966 he climbed a 27-storey tower at the University of Texas in Aust in and shot passersby on the campus below before being killed by police. Fifteen people were killed, including his mother and wife, whom he had shot the night before. An autopsy found he had been suffering from a brain tumour.
October 1997: A 16-year-old boy stabs his mother, then shoots dead two students at a school in Mississippi, injuring several others.
December 1997: A 14-year-old boy kills three students in Kentucky.
March 1998: At Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys aged 13 and 11 set off the fire alarm and killed four students and a teacher as they left the school.
April 1998: A 14-year-old shoots dead a teacher and wounds two students in Pennsylvania.
May 1998: A 15-year-old shoots dead two students in a school cafeteria in Oregon.
June1998: Two adults are hurt in a shooting by a teenage student at a Virginia high school.
April 1999: Two heavily armed teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, rampage through their school in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 24 others, before committing suicide
May 1999: A student injures six pupils in a shoot-out in Georgia.
November 1999:A 13-year-old girl is shot dead by a classmate in New Mexico.
February 2000: A six-year-old girl is shot dead by a classmate in Michigan.
March 2001: A pupil opens fire at a school in California, killing two students.
January 2002: A student who had been dismissed from the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, kills the dean, a professor and a student, and wounds three others.
April 2003: A teenager shoots dead the head-teacher at a Pennsylvania school, then kills himself.
May 2004: Four people are injured in a shooting at a school in Maryland.
March 2005: Jeffrey Weise, a 16-year-old high school student guns down five students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in northern Minnesota before killing himself. He also killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend elsewhere on the Chippewa Indian reservation.
November 2005: A student in Tennessee shoots dead an assistant principal and wounds two other administrators.
September 2006: Duane Morrison, a 53-year-old drifter, takes six female high school students hostage in Bailey, Colorado, after entering Platte Canyon High School, claiming to be carrying a bomb. He sexually assaulted them and then shot one, fatally, before killing himself when police arrived.
September 2006: Two days after the Bailey killing, a 15-year-old student kills his school’s principal in western Wisconsin after telling another student “you better run".
October 2006: Charles Roberts, a 32-year-old milk truck driver takes hostages and eventually shoots 10 girls girls aged seven to 13, killing five, before shooting himself. Roberts had indicated to his wife over the phone that he had dreams about molesting children.
April 2007: A gunman kills at least 31 people in a dormitory and classroom at Virginia Tech university before being shot dead himself."
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devils_advocate
Apr 16, 2007, 7:21 PM
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pinktricam wrote: The sick irony is that it happened on the week of the Columbine mass murder rampage 8 yrs. ago...4/20/99.
Further support of my theory that "irony" is the most mis-used term in the English language.
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rrrADAM
Apr 16, 2007, 7:23 PM
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devils_advocate wrote: pinktricam wrote: The sick irony is that it happened on the week of the Columbine mass murder rampage 8 yrs. ago...4/20/99. Further support of my theory that "irony" is the most mis-used term in the English language.
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devils_advocate
Apr 16, 2007, 7:34 PM
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rrrADAM wrote: devils_advocate wrote: pinktricam wrote: The sick irony is that it happened on the week of the Columbine mass murder rampage 8 yrs. ago...4/20/99. Further support of my theory that "irony" is the most mis-used term in the English language. Ironic, isn't it.
When in Rome...
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epic_ed
Apr 16, 2007, 8:14 PM
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All fixed.
So who among us attends VA Tech? Any word from anyone?
Ed
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carabiner96
Apr 16, 2007, 8:17 PM
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epic_ed wrote: All fixed. So who among us attends VA Tech? Any word from anyone? Ed
Thank you ed, very much.
My best friend started is from VA and has loads of friends who go there. We still can't get a hold of them,
We are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. It's been a tough year.
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acarp
Apr 16, 2007, 10:17 PM
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We're all still standing vigil. Keep your thoughts and prayers with us.
My girlfriend was in class right next to where the first shooting was at and after class, before heading outside, she ran upstairs to her lab and the lab got a call to lock the doors and get down. She was in Fralin at the time. That was a little scary for her I'm sure.
the nest press release is supposed to be at 7:30 tonight.
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Apr 16, 2007, 10:25 PM
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You got it acarp. All of you dig deep.
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Apr 16, 2007, 10:53 PM
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acarp wrote: We're all still standing vigil. Keep your thoughts and prayers with us. My girlfriend was in class right next to where the first shooting was at and after class, before heading outside, she ran upstairs to her lab and the lab got a call to lock the doors and get down. She was in Fralin at the time. That was a little scary for her I'm sure. the nest press release is supposed to be at 7:30 tonight.
i will keep you and everyone else involved in my thoughts and prayers
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carabiner96
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We now know one of the dead. She was only 19.
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carabiner96
Apr 17, 2007, 2:25 AM
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We just lost one more. A triple degree student and a star trumpet player, went to school with my best friend.
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rogue10186
Apr 17, 2007, 2:29 AM
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Damn, I hope your doing alright biner, lossing friends is tough, I hope everything works out for you and your friends...
I also have 2 friends at VT, but they're both ok...
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rrrADAM
Apr 17, 2007, 2:43 AM
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Don't be alone 'biner... Go to your family and/or friends.
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Apr 17, 2007, 4:17 AM
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Still waiting to hear from a couple members from another forum. Apparently one of the moderator's friends was injured in the shooting.
Condolences to biner and everyone else who lost someone today.
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Apr 17, 2007, 4:18 AM
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All day long I have been thinking about the many people who are going through the worst day of their lives. For whatever reason, I've only really thought of the injured and of the family and friends of the departed. I don't know why but it takes a while to fully acknowledge the snuffing out of so many young lives. It's too heinous of a thing to truly realize in the course of a few hours. I knew a few of the kids and the teacher killed at Columbine eight years ago. I really wish that my hometown was still known as the site of the worst school shooting in recent history, as wrong as that may sound.
All those affected by this tragedy are close to my heart tonight.
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mowz
Apr 17, 2007, 4:27 AM
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mbg wrote: I don't know why but it takes a while to fully acknowledge the snuffing out of so many young lives.
To those affected: I am sorry for your loss.
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