22 Killed in US school Shooting

[anythinggoes]

(Updates death toll, includes campus police comment)

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - At least 22 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and many others were wounded on Monday in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university, police and university officials said.

The rampage took place in two separate areas of the campus about two hours apart during the morning. Police said they believed a single gunman was responsible.

"This is a tragedy of monumental proportions," Virginia Tech president Charles Steger told reporters.

It was one of the worst shootings on a university campus in the United States since a massacre at the University of Texas in Austin on Aug. 1, 1966. Charles Whitman killed 15 people, including his mother and wife the night before, and wounded 31 others in that shooting.

Virginia Tech, with 26,000 students, is located in the southwest corner of the state, about 240 miles (390 km) from Washington.

Police said they were investigating whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by authorities.

Most of the shootings took place at a part of the campus called Norris Hall, according to campus police chief Wendell Finchum.


http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1631605420070416


Shocking Stuff

[Loaded NightraiN]

This shit is horrible... People are nuts... RIP to all 

[polluxlm]

Again? Already?

Where are we heading...

[stvyrayvhn]

ABC News is now reporting 29 http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574

[FunkyMonkey]

Federal Sources: At least 32 dead

This is horrible.

[SLCPUNK]

Here we go again.......disgusting.

[Izzy]

I'll just say it

The same people shot today were defending their ''right'' to bear arms yesterday

You reap what you sow

Honestly what do Americans expect?

And not one of you will do anything about it - you'll be defending your ''right'' tommorow and savaging any politician that dares to do something about this

[polluxlm]

The right to bear arms got little to do with it. My country has the highest concentration of guns per household in the world, and we've never had a school shooting. It's a problem rooted deep in the society, and there are no short cuts to a solution.

Try looking at the increased work pressure, the power of television and marketing, and the increasing alienating of different thought/behaviour.

[SLCPUNK]

I'll just say it

The same people shot today were defending their ''right'' to bear arms yesterday

You reap what you sow

Honestly what do Americans expect?

And not one of you will do anything about it - you'll be defending your ''right'' tommorow and savaging any politician that dares to do something about this

You're really going to draw out the nut jobs with that one.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

well the gun law mixed with the appetite for destruction in th usa doesnt help at all.

sad stuff, i know people from virginia

[Izzy]

I'll just say it

The same people shot today were defending their ''right'' to bear arms yesterday

You reap what you sow

Honestly what do Americans expect?

And not one of you will do anything about it - you'll be defending your ''right'' tommorow and savaging any politician that dares to do something about this

You're really going to draw out the nut jobs with that one.

and tommorow will there be a great uproar against guns? Will we see presidential candidates campaigning against guns?

No.

We'll have everyone from Bush to Obama saying how sorry they are - but its still a good idea to have every psycho armed to the teeth

How many school shootings does there need to be before people do something?

In the UK a madman went into a school and shot children a decade ago and over night every gun was banned, shooting clubs were banned - the government did everything it could possibly do

America will just wait for the next shooting and condemn the ''evil'' individual society had armed

[2NaFish]

guns are bad.

[GnFnR87]

this is fucking ridiculous, when will America learn. i wonder who the media will blame for this now, i mean marilyn manson has been used already..... i guess people will try to blame violent video games and movies etc, which i think is bullshit.i mean c'mon violence has always been in human culture/society since the beginning of time. i don't have a problem with those things because sane people obvoiusly know that its just a form of entertainment and they aren't gonna try to copy it or be persuaded by it to go out on shootings. give me a break.


as someone said earlier in the thread, this is a problem rooted deep inside our society. and unless we stop blaming other people/things and using scapegoats, this will continue to go on. we need to take a good hard look at ourselves and get to the root of the problem.

[GeraldFord]

How could the rampage of taken place in two instances, two hours apart? Why didn't the police evacuate the building after the first killing spree?

The same people shot today were defending their ''right'' to bear arms yesterday

You can't speak for anyone who was shot. For all you know all the victims were in favor of more gun laws.

I personally feel that for anyone who isn't a cop or in the armed services, only rifles should be legal, and for hunting purposes only.

[LunsJail]

I went to school there and lived in Blacksburg for about 4 years after that. It's definitely not a place where you would expect something like this. Small town, pretty quiet overall...very unfortunate this happened. And not all of us Americans defend the right to bear arms, just a very vocal minority.

[Mal Brossard]

If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.  A ban on alcohol didn't work.  A ban on drugs isn't working.  Why do people think a ban on weapons will be any different?

The only way it would be any different is if it becomes completely impossible for guns to be manufactured.  Ain't gonna happen.

[FunkyMonkey]

How could the rampage of taken place in two instances, two hours apart? Why didn't the police evacuate the building after the first killing spree?

That, if true, is something that someone is going to have to answer.

[Loaded NightraiN]

If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.? A ban on alcohol didn't work.? A ban on drugs isn't working.? Why do people think a ban on weapons will be any different?

The only way it would be any different is if it becomes completely impossible for guns to be manufactured.? Ain't gonna happen.

Yup.. People around here act like their countries have no problems and are perfect...  Just because school shootings dont happen alot there, dosent mean your way of life, or society, is any better...

[2112]

I wonder what will happen if the murderer happens to be from Iran etc...

This is so crap, USA should rethink their gunlaws.
There are idiots all over the world, but only in USA they get armed..

Sad shit.

[LunsJail]

I wonder what will happen if the murderer happens to be from Iran etc...

This is so crap, USA should rethink their gunlaws.
There are idiots all over the world, but only in USA they get armed..

Sad shit.

The shooter was Asian, don't know if he was an American citizen or what. Apparently he was looking for his girlfriend and I guess the crazy fuck just decided he'd shoot everyone until he found her.