Shooting at Virginia Tech

[Skerik]

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According to the Washington Post, this is now the deadliest shooting spree of any kind, ever, in American history.

[SidVish]

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What I want to know is this (if what I read is correct):

They say this guy went to the dorms and shot a person or a few people there. Then 2 hours later, went to the building where he shot a bunch of people in the classroom and did most of his damage.

How the heck wasn't the entire area on lockdown after the dorm shooting? How did he get to the classroom area 2 hours later and do damage there?

That part doesn't make sense to me (if true).

Can anybody explain any of this? I really don't understand this either.

[Spectre]

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Can anybody explain any of this? I really don't understand this either.

Just a terrible (and fatal) mistake by Virginia Tech campus police.

[BROman]

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The safest place in the entire world when it comes to handgun deaths is Switzerland. In Switzerland every family is issued a Automatic Assault Rifle because they have no army and there could be a circumstance where a milita would need to be created. Just some food for thought.

they have a milita, and all able-bodied males must serve at some point.

[fistofrage]

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I'm sorry but it's impossible to say for sure how you would react in a situation like this.

Thats exactly it, everyone wants to say they would do this or that, but until you are looking down the barrell of a gun, you have no idea how you'd react. I guarantee your first instinct isn't to kick the guys A$$, but rather how do I get out of this situation. The answer may be to attack, but the first instinct is to run if that's an option.


They are also saying he chained the door so I imaging alot of people went running towards the exit and when they couldn't get out, it was like shooting fish in a barrell.

[The GIGGAS]

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I'm reading basically the same (unsubstantiated) rumors that he was a Radford student, came to VT looking for his girlfriend. Went to her room, didn't find her there and then shot her roommate (the dorm shooting). Then apparently went to the classes to find her.

Oh God I hope that's not true, being a RU student.

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Can anybody explain any of this? I really don't understand this either.

From one article on one of the major news sites (I think it was MSNBC) I read that all the VaTech authorities were at the dorm investigating the first shooting, so they're weren't many spread throughout the rest of the campus.

But what still seems odd as hell is that it took two hours before the shooter got to the classrooms. Looking at the campus maps they have on some of the news sites, I would guess it's a 20 minute walk tops to get from the site of the first shooting to the site of the second. I'd love to know what the heck the shooter was doing for the other hour and a half or so.

[Double Eights]

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I'd love to know what the heck the shooter was doing for the other hour and a half or so.

He was probably loading up for Norris Hall. This definitely sounds like a premeditated assault.

[RockyTop1]

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From one article on one of the major news sites (I think it was MSNBC) I read that all the VaTech authorities were at the dorm investigating the first shooting, so they're weren't many spread throughout the rest of the campus.

But what still seems odd as hell is that it took two hours before the shooter got to the classrooms. Looking at the campus maps they have on some of the news sites, I would guess it's a 20 minute walk tops to get from the site of the first shooting to the site of the second. I'd love to know what the heck the shooter was doing for the other hour and a half or so.

I've spent some time on the campus, even played football in the drill fields, no way that is 20 minute walk, more like 5-10 max.

[Double Eights]

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It is just sickening to think we still have these kinds of acts taking place on our own soil. We are at war with other countries, with men and women risking their lives to defend our country.

Then we have douche bags on our own soil who act just like the terrorists we are trying to defeat.

[Skerik]

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He was probably loading up for Norris Hall. This definitely sounds like a premeditated assault.

Premeditated for one thing, and the guy seems to have had considerable expertise in firing those handguns. I mean, he killed more people than he wounded and a +50% kill rate is pretty difficult to accomplish unless you have a very good idea what you're doing.

As for the maps, I've seen those maps and it's got to be at least a 20-minute walk between the two shooting locations. They're pretty far apart. But why didn't they lock down the entire campus? They couldn't have found anything at the location of the first shooting that led them to issue an all clear, so why didn't they issue a campus-wide lockdown before the second shooting could occur almost two hours later?

Ok, so Rockytop says it's not a 20-minute walk. But the rest of my post still stands....where was the campus-wide alert following the first shooting?

[coogrfan]

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From one article on one of the major news sites (I think it was MSNBC) I read that all the VaTech authorities were at the dorm investigating the first shooting, so they're weren't many spread throughout the rest of the campus.

But what still seems odd as hell is that it took two hours before the shooter got to the classrooms. Looking at the campus maps they have on some of the news sites, I would guess it's a 20 minute walk tops to get from the site of the first shooting to the site of the second. I'd love to know what the heck the shooter was doing for the other hour and a half or so.

Imo, the two hour gap between incidents reinforces the theory that the shooter was looking for someone in particular. He may have just lain low until a specific class was scheduled to begin.

[The GIGGAS]

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It is just sickening to think we still have these kinds of acts taking place on our own soil. We are at war with other countries, with men and women risking their lives to defend our country.

Then we have douche bags on our own soil who act just like the terrorists we are trying to defeat.

There's a staggering number of people who are just unfit to be part of the public at large.

[Heelfan71]

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of course someone isn't going to fight a guy with a gun. But with all the chaos, it seems like it could of been stopped sooner.

[Double Eights]

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But why didn't they lock down the entire campus? They couldn't have found anything at the location of the first shooting that led them to issue an all clear, so why didn't they issue a campus-wide lockdown before the second shooting could occur almost two hours later?

If you find a person with a gunshot wound on a college campus, you close down the school. It should have been an instantaneous closure of the school.