Originally posted by: JoPh
Any updates?
Originally posted by: Umberger
none from my end... they're still driving by playing an emergency announcement telling us to take shelter. i'm fielding calls and IM's from friends and family members that are asking if i'm okay.
Originally posted by: toekramp
confirmed multiple shooters
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: Phokus
Virginia Tech? Did Marcus Vick re-enroll or something?Originally posted by: supafly
Anyone going to Quadfest on 4/20?
Not sure if this is the time for humor
Originally posted by: eleison
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: TallBill
Sounds like OP was being sarcastic. To bad you cant conceal carry at school. Easy targets for a psycho.
LOL, oh my god, please explain how everyone involved having a weapon in this instance would have resulted in *less* shootings? Seems to me that a bunch of jumpy students with firearms might well have turned the whole thing into a massacre. Or are you suggesting it's ok for more people to get shot as long as one of them is the guy who started it?
A recent case-in-point involves the man who shot six people -- murdering three of them -- on the campus of the Appalachian School Of Law (ASL) in Grundy, Virginia.
In mid-January, a disgruntled student at ASL, Peter Odighizuwa, opened fire on campus wounding three people and murdering three others -- the school's Dean, a law professor and a student. As reported in The Charlotte Observer newspaper (1/18/2002), two men who helped bring the murderer under control were ASL students Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges... both were armed...
http://www.gunowners.org/sk0302.htm
http://www.newsobserver.com/1331/story/490568.html
Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Not going with either side here, but the fact that students who were in no immediate danger paniced and jumped out windows, would make me wonder what they would do if they all had loaded guns.
Originally posted by: DaWhim
something like columbine? wow....too much stress?
Originally posted by: Mellman
Originally posted by: TallBill
Sounds like OP was being sarcastic. To bad you cant conceal carry at school. Easy targets for a psycho.
Armed society is a polite society...this idiot would be dropped in 2 seconds had people been allowed to carry...that - or he would not have done it in the first place because he would know he'd get himself killed first.
Originally posted by: Atheus
It would seem to me the idea is to make sure the *murderer* never had a gun in the first place, not to make sure everyone else has one too...
Originally posted by: Atheus
You'll understand my reluctance to believe an article on a site called 'gunowners.org', but assuming for a moment it is correct...
"Now, notice the difference here, please, President Machen. When the murderer was confronted by the man with no gun, he ignored him. The murderer punched him in the face. But, when the murderer was confronted by the two men with guns, the murderer put his gun down and surrendered."
It would seem to me the idea is to make sure the *murderer* never had a gun in the first place, not to make sure everyone else has one too...
The situation could just as easily have resulted in the CCW guys firing all their rounds at the murderer in a panic and hitting another 6 people in the process.
Guns are for wars, and for killing dinner, not for taking to school like a damn toy.
Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Not going with either side here, but the fact that students who were in no immediate danger paniced and jumped out windows, would make me wonder what they would do if they all had loaded guns.
My point exactly.