Va Tech massacre

I was actually in class myself when I first heard the news. It drove home the point that anyone can perpetrate this kind of event anytime, anywhere, without any warning.

(side note: there's a popular rumor spreading around other colleges that the shooter went on a rampage because he couldn't handle being dumped by his girlfriend very well -- but I'm not reading into that at all.)

My condolences to the family and friends of the victims.

 

my heart and sympathies go out to the victims, their family and friends.

"why?" permeates my thoughts. I cannot comprehend the motivation for this event.

"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

 

My cousin is a grad student at Va Tech and thankfully he was not involved in this massacre. It is hard to believe that one person can do so much damage. Hearing those gun shots from the cell phone was unreal.

I do not think the Va Tech school and police could have done much different to avoid the second shooting from happening. The campus is 2600 acres and there are 26,000 students plus another 10,000 in faculty and staff. I am sure there will be some firings because of this, but in my opinion, no one should get fired.

The unfortunate reality is that if someone wants to shoot people in a school environment, it is going to happen. There is really no way of knowing or stopping someone from doing something like this.

 

We're all saddened by this. i've wanted to wait until all facts were known... or at least there was some good background info on this poor deluded sicko before I commented on here.

But I have been commenting on the offal, because the theme quickly turned to 'american fascination wiht guns' and the call for banning.

While in some office at the edge of the VT campus, at the time of the shooting there were 79 guns, belonging to students and faculty with permits, in the lockbox.