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Post by Justin Melick on Apr 17, 2007 13:07:14 GMT -4
From the USA Today ...Witnesses said that Cho, wearing a cap, a jacket and a dark vest that was apparently laden with ammunition, strode into several classrooms and opened fire on students and faculty, reloaded and fired again. He also shot at, and missed, a custodian who came upon a victim in the hallway. Erin Sheehan, who was in the German class at Norris Hall, told the student newspaper, the Collegiate Times, that she was one of only four of about two dozen people in the class to walk out of the room. The rest were dead or wounded, she said. She said the gunman "was just a normal-looking kid, Asian, but he had on a Boy Scout-type outfit. He wore a tan button-up vest, and this black vest, maybe it was for ammo or something." www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm
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Post by summerose on Apr 17, 2007 16:44:24 GMT -4
That is such a sad situation. My heart goes out to all the people effected by it.
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Post by bella on Apr 17, 2007 19:19:15 GMT -4
Our thoughts and prayers to all the family and friends of loved ones lost and injured.
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Post by honeybee on Apr 17, 2007 22:18:54 GMT -4
If I got the same call, that the parents of the murdered students received, I would not be able to function. My heart and prayers go out to them and I wish multitudes of blessings on all of them.
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Post by gunnerMark19 on Apr 18, 2007 8:58:40 GMT -4
My prayers go out to those who were directly affected by this tragedy, as well as to the country as a whole. God Bless America and May America Bless God.
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Post by wranger on Apr 19, 2007 12:35:40 GMT -4
Absolutely. They're saying the gunman was picked on in high school. Maybe we should all start being nicer to one another.
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Post by honeybee on Apr 19, 2007 14:14:45 GMT -4
wranger, around here the picking on starts in middle school.
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Post by shortcircuit on Apr 19, 2007 18:40:09 GMT -4
Yep, and by the time high school rolls around the bullies have either dropped out or have been sent to jail.
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Post by tessa on Apr 19, 2007 19:34:57 GMT -4
"The gunman was picked on in high school." I knew the excuses for his actions would start up soon. Wonder if Hitler was picked on in high school too and if so, would that "excuse" all the evil he did?
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Post by honeybee on Apr 19, 2007 20:46:40 GMT -4
He was also picked on in grammer and middle school, and yes that did affect him, mentally at least.
Am I defending him? "HECK NO", if he was smart enough to get into college then he was smart enough to know right from wrong.
I think the point that Wranger is making is, maybe we should all start being nice to one another and people wouldn't get so out of whack. Use the basic information we learned in Kindergarten all the way through our life.
The history on most school shootings (except the Amsih one) is that the kids never stopped picking on them. I am not defending the Columbine shootings, however I can fully understand the way the killers were made to feel. After all the teachers were even guilty of making fun of them in class.
Tessa, maybe you weren't ever embarassed, bullied or picked on in school, but I was and I can understand where the feelings of hostility can come from.
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Post by tessa on Apr 19, 2007 21:09:31 GMT -4
You are scaring me honeybee. Since you were "embarassed, bullied or picked on in school", does this mean that you are going to blow people away? Do you have "feelings of hostility" because of it to the extent that you are going to kill people? I doubt it UNLESS you have a serious mental illness like schizophrenia. You seem pretty mentally healthy to me.
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Post by honeybee on Apr 20, 2007 10:34:46 GMT -4
Mentally healthy, me??? Depends on who you ask. But thanks for the compliment.
I didn't grow up pampered, as a matter of fact my mother crossed the discipline/abuse line very often. So maybe instead of "beating me senseless" she beat it in.
What get's me is the crazy one's you can't spot? Walking around like normal folks.
The signs with this guy were there, way before college but because of civil rights (as a person) and not wanting to be a social disgrace (by the family), it was ignored.
THIS IS WEIRD, BUT DON'T TAKE IT OUT OF CONTEXT PLEASE!!!!!!!!! THe good thing that I can see from this is:
It has brought a lo of people closer to and back to God.
The media finally realizes the public doesn't want the bad guy's glamorized, we want to hear about the victims and their lives.
I think that by turing the attention more to the victims and the kind of people they were and the lives they lived, would acheive more convictions of criminals. Don't analyze the bad guy's life and show everybody where his problems come from. We already know he had problems by his actions. Build sympathy for the vistims adn their families and then send him to the death chamber.
I feel some people feed to much on the madness and insanity surrounding them until they reach a point that "Hey, it's ok. Everybody else is doing it whi can't I?"
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Post by tessa on Apr 20, 2007 11:17:09 GMT -4
I agree honeybee. In addition colleges need to be more concerned about the rights and safety of all the students and faculty. In the rarified college atmosphere, sometimes the philosophical gets in the way of the practical. My best friend works at Harvard and she is constantly appalled and amazed by the lack of safety and security.
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Post by honeybee on Apr 20, 2007 11:31:18 GMT -4
I never went to college but I can understand. Kids are looking to get outside of their "box" by testing their freedom and the "somewhat" lack of supervision.
It's a small city of hormones and freedom of expression.
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Post by shortcircuit on Apr 21, 2007 14:29:27 GMT -4
Hopefully this doesn't start a bunch of copycat school shootings. Our kids already have enough stress on them as it is.
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