Virgina Tech Shooting.

[knoxydoll]

My heart goes out to all the families, students, and residents there, this should have never happened.
Is there any Specktresses who go there? If so do we know if they're okay?

I know I have some friends who go there, and thank god they're safe and sound.

Just for those who don't know there was two shootings at the school earlier today. 30+ are dead with 20+ injured. Two seperate incidents happening about 2.5 hours apart. Worst mass shooting ever is what CNN is reporting.

I did a search and didn't find anything.

 

[Shimmer]

It's all over MSN, CNN, etc. :/

 

[knoxydoll]

They're so many pictures flooding in and videos thanks to having camera phones and digital cameras in probably every room. There's also supposedly a Blood Bank open near by; with all the gun shot wounds they'll be using up a lot of blood.

It's just so sad to see this happen no matter where it is.

Also I know a lot of the medical field in the area is volunteering to rush over and help. I know my friend's wifey is a nurse and she rushed over to the nearest hospital to help. It's going to be a very long day for those people; but what they're doing is hopefully saving lives

 

[Raerae]

Yeh i never understand the point of mass shooting. People freak me out.

 

[knoxydoll]

I've heard that one of the shooters lined up 6 people and killed them execution style. It's sick. That's the only way to describe it.

 

[Raerae]

There was more than 1 shooter now? Thought it was only 1.

Never understand also how in these situations mass groups of people just let it happen. Obviously being put in the situation is different and who knows how you'll react. But you'd thing 6 people lined up would be able to overpower a single person.

 

[knoxydoll]

I been told there was one or two shooters. The two shooters weren't related and that in the first shooting this morning that that shooter was killed. Then in an unrelated event another shooter came and went crazy and started killing students, teachers, and others. I'm not sure which is true; but there was two different shootings.

 

[Annie]

When I heard about this my heart nearly stopped. I live in Virginia and I have a cousin that attends Virginia Tech and I know a bunch of people that graudated from my school go there.

It's just insane.

I know that at the very being of the fall semester they had a manhunt on the campus and there were two bomb threats within the last week. This is just so hard to fathom. VA Tech was never a place I thought of as scary or dangerous. It's just unbelievable.

 

[Shimmer]

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Originally Posted by Raerae But you'd thing 6 people lined up would be able to overpower a single person.

Fear is a magnificent immobilizer.

 

[knoxydoll]

So the president of the school has said that 33 people have been killed. One shooter, not identified. 2 killed in the first shooting. 31, including the shooter in the second. 15 injured.

 

[knoxydoll]

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Originally Posted by Annie When I heard about this my heart nearly stopped. I live in Virginia and I have a cousin that attends Virginia Tech and I know a bunch of people that graudated from my school go there. It's just insane. I know that at the very being of the fall semester they had a manhunt on the campus and there were two bomb threats within the last week. This is just so hard to fathom. VA Tech was never a place I thought of as scary or dangerous. It's just unbelievable.

Have you heard from any of the people you know?

 

[Annie]

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Originally Posted by knoxydoll Have you heard from any of the people you know?

Just found out the my cousin is unharmed (I'd say fine, but I'm sure she's not in a good mental state right now), but I haven't heard from anyone else.

 

[Tash]

It's such a horrible thing for them to go through. One of my close friends had a cousin who was paralyzed in the Columbine shootings. I can never understand the reasoning behind this sort of thing. Ever.

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer Fear is a magnificent immobilizer.

No i totally agree. But it just amazes me how in these types of incidents, be it terrorists with box cutters, or kids with guns, more isn't dont by the people involved to stop them.

I mean something tells me thing kid wasn't some huge individual, especially going to a tech school and shooting up the engineering department. He's was probably some loser who was upset that the popular kids on campus didn't want to be his friend. Seems to be the pattern in these shootings.

But I just dont understand how everyone (especially the guys on campus) have this like, save my own skin mentality. And no one tried to stop him.

The students are blaming the authorities, I blame the students as much for sitting by wathing it happen. They were the first people on the scene, it's about time people stood up and tried to make a difference, instead of sitting by hoping someone is going to come save them. All that did was create more bloodshed.

Guns dont have unlimited amunition, he has to stop at some point to re-load. Not to mention no one bothered to follow him as he went to the complete opposite side of campus to shoot up the engineering building? It just amazes me that no one tried to stand up to him.

I understand fear is a powerful feeling. But without fear there is no courage. I'm just amazed no one tried to do anything, but run.

 

[peacelover18]

I'm from Virginia, but I go to college in Boston. I have some friends that go to Tech. I've only heard from one of them.

I just can't believe this happened. VA Tech is such a great school.

 

[*Stargazer*]

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Originally Posted by Raerae . Not to mention no one bothered to follow him as he went to the complete opposite side of campus to shoot up the engineering building?

There was a large space of time, hours, between the two sets of shootings. They thought the guy had left campus after the first one. They weren't following him because he wasn't there to follow initially.

I'm sure people did try to stop him. But when confronted with a psycho with multiple weapons and clips potentially capable of holding 30+ bullets, the odds were stacked against them.

 

[Beauty Mark]

I don't think it's fair to blame the students for not trying to prevent the shootings. For all we know, someone did. It might not be just "save myself" mentality but not set off the psycho more by fighting back. Running could also be running to inform authorities, who are much more capable of taking down an armed person. Most people aren't trained to think "What would I do if I'm confronted by a person who's going to mass murder people?"

Having never been in a situation like that, I can't say how I'd react or what's proper behavior. I don't know if there is in something so terrible.

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by Ladybug10678 There was a large space of time, hours, between the two sets of shootings. They thought the guy had left campus after the first one. They weren't following him because he wasn't there to follow initially.

I was thinking more of a student with a cell phone or something. I'm sure SOMEONE had to have seen him leaving the building, and could have followed him from a distance, or called the polise and told them the direction he was going.

 

[*Stargazer*]

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Originally Posted by Raerae I was thinking more of a student with a cell phone or something. I'm sure SOMEONE had to have seen him leaving the building, and could have followed him from a distance, or called the polise and told them the direction he was going.

But no one knew what had happened with the first shooting until after the second had started. So if he was not heavily armed and was just a dude leaving a building, no one would have blinked.

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by Ladybug10678 But no one knew what had happened with the first shooting until after the second had started. So if he was not heavily armed and was just a dude leaving a building, no one would have blinked.

No i understand that... He had 2 handguns and a few clips of amunition, so he wasn't heavily armed. But you would think someone who saw the shooting would have followed. I have a hard time believing that not a single person witnessed the killings of how many people?

And he went to that dorm for a reason. He probably knew people on the dorm, chances are he was a resident in it. So I'm sure people around knew who he was.

Things like this just upset me, because it's like every time they happen people just sit back and watch as people get killed.