Anyone been watching the news, They said there was a shooting at Virginia Tech and last I heard on the news 22 people were killed.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...ewsbreaking-hed

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Oh wow...was there even a motive or was it just a random massacre? Either way pretty sad

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This is the worst shooting in history..
That kid is crazy

What is with VT? Last August there was Morva who fled to the campus after escaping from jail and killing someone and now this??

I was watching the news earlier at like, 11 and there was only one dead and now there's 31? :( :( :(

omg i have 2 friends that go to vtech i'm calling them right now

Oh my God, thirty-one people? God Bless their families.

I just tried calling most of my friends that go to VT and I can't get through. I wonder if this is anything like what the families felt during the 9-11 ordeal.

I have a friend at VTech, and I got to her through facebook, so I'm feeling so relieved.

She lives in East Ambler Johnston, right beside the dorm where the shootings took place.

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it's really sad

That's scary. I live in Virginia, and when I was in school today, our chorus teacher told us about it. We sat in class for like, 30 minutes talking about it. It's pretty scary. My sister goes there, so I was kind of freaking out, until I got home today, and I saw her at home (she doesn't have classes today). =/

By the way..there's more than 22 killed. There were 32 people killed, and 24 injured. I don't know that much about it, because I haven't read the article yet. But my chorus teacher told us the dude who was responsible for this committed suicide.

They just released that the gunman committed suicide. This is awful. I can't believe that they didn't shut down the campus after the first shootings at West Ambler Johnston.

I heard about this earlier today. May the victims rest in peace.
Meanwhile I'm calling my cousin who lives in Virginia.

My bf's family lives in VA. But I think most of his cousins go to George Mason and not Tech. I think. I hope.

the vt shootings is all cnn will cover with other reports about the death toll in iraq and four deaths in the northeast because of the storm. all in all, a very heartbreaking news day/

my heart and sympathy goes out to the victims and their families. may those who died rest in peace.

It's really horrible. It's almost hard to believe that it actually happened but it did. I'm absolutely heartbroken by it. It's terrible to think that someone would actually do that. I pray for the victims' families. It's a horrifying and dreadful incident. I give them all my sympathies and prayers.

It's absolutely horrible. Why someone would do that..it only highlights the savageness in us all.

God bless them & their families.

This is so terrible. Last I heard the number was up to 33 deaths.

I cant believe after the first shooting at 7:00, they didnt bother to properly inform all the students. All they did was send out emails... who the heck checks their email that early in the morning? The school was equipped with emergency alarms, which were never set off. It's almost like they continued classes like it was no big deal. I cant help but to imagine, what if they would have locked down the school properly? The additional 30 deaths could have possibly been prevented.

This is allegedly his xanga.


http://www.xanga.com/wanusmaximus



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nevermind, the xanga is debunked.

ends up being a freakishly large coicidence.

(Edit) He has a lot of gun pictures there..



Who? I've been wanting to know eversince I heard about it today..

Thats a little creepy...

They don't know who it is yet. CNN says that the gunman wasn't carrying ID.

^ They said they think he was asian. That's all I've heard.

I've been watching the news ever since I've got home. This is so terrible.

My best friend texted me about it. It's terrible.

RIP to everyone who lost their lives today. I'm still in a shock about this.

Nearly double the 2nd most killing on a school campus. Ouch.

I heard but who is that guy and what was his purpose of killing those people ?

R.I.P =(

somesthing something shooter finds g/f and dude together shoots them and goes to shoot school. ouch.

God bless their families. This is so sad.

I think he was an ex-student or something related to the school in some way.

this is the saddest thing I have ever heard. i really cant imagine what those students went through im like shocked about this whole thing. oh man what is this world coming to, why did he have to do this. ughhhhhhhh. so depressing.

i heard this guy was definately asian but i also heard he is chinese.

That is so awful. I can't believe it...

God bless all the families of the victims. And I hope they R.I.P.

Poor people. They were all so young. RIP.

This is the best thing to have happened for a while. Shows how fake human sincerity can be. You guys are prime examples. Why do you guys even care about this thing unless it directly affected you.

i haven't seen you around for ... a really, really, really long time.

I think his girlfriend cheated on him with some other guy. Since his gf goes to Virginia Tech, that's why he started going all crazy there. His gf died too.

Retribution?

LOL Wow th5418 you didn't bother reading any posts did you? Maybe you just got finished playin Super Nintendo and you're living in a virtual world if you don't think it doesn't effect us all. This particular incident could happen anywhere else.

Yeah, that's what I heard. He only shot the people he planned to shoot, right? I don't think he shot anyone randomly.. ?

I remember you.

I agree that sincerity is questionable especially in cases like these where not everyone is directly affected but I don't think that it's right to generalize everyone in that category...

Wow, you dont bother reading MY single post do you?

Illiteracy hits us all sometimes.

You're right, this incident can happen anywhere else. So why does this incident deserve special treatment. Nobody bats an eye at the people dying in Africa of AIDs or even at that one forsaken place called Darfur. Nobody bats an eye at the diamond mines they have in Niger. Nobody batted an eye at the school shooting that happened in Quebec a couple months back. But this deserves special treatment. Human sincerity, what a joke.

I agree, I will generalize that for 90% of the population.

It's also media coverage. I didn't even know about that shooting in Quebec until a couple weeks after the fact, and I'm Canadian. It was shown on the news but not much coverage, surprisingly.

some serious shit. they said the guy didn`t even go to virginia tech what an idiot. RIP to those killed.

Strangely, I always had an irking feeling that something tragic would happen on a college campus. Given all the protests, the occasional riot, the bomb threats that happened infrequently; all thanks to young men and women struggling to find themselves in a world where beliefs clash. I don't know what this guy's motives were, but the likelihood of it happening (on any college campus where people push the lines of extremism), has always been pretty high.

In a situation like this, what do you do? Lock down a college campus like a military base? Set up gate guards and ahve metal detectors? Make people carry clear backpacks and wear uniforms? Cut back on political activism and multiculturalism? What can you do? I had a Glock 22 in college (and in high school), but it certainly wasn't for a killing spree, it was in case karma kicked in or if something incredibly scary happened.

On the contrary , there are people who give a damn and do all they can to help out with AIDS in Africa like Alicia Keys. What about Oprah building a school for disadvantaged kids in Africa? So you think no one knows about the diamond mines although last year Kanye blazed the air waves with Diamonds are forever, and the movie Blood Diamond came out late part of last year. And for the record the Quebec shooting was all over CNN the day it happened.


Although the chances are not likely, makes me scared to go to school tomorrow. But for the most part people will probalby continue to do things like they normally do.

Hey hey, I didn't know Alicia Keys, Oprah, Kanye, and movie producers did this out of the will of their good hearts soley. Oh, I also didnt know that these four people represent all of America! I'm sure I have a part of Oprah in me somewhere.

EDIT : Sure, people know about them. They bat an eye at them and go "oh, damn poor people living in crappy places and working for such crappy wages." Then they go back to eating fillet mignon.

We don't truly know if they did this out of the pure goodness of their hearts but it certainly raised awareness.

On a side note, Blood Diamonds was an excellent movie.

That movie was pretty bad in my opinion. I've never seen so much killing and a boring story line.

KC: I agree. All it takes is a spark to burn the place down. Who knows, this may be the beginning of violence to come. People need to get a grip on shit, man. Our society is deteriorating from within.

Robbi A!: Agreed. Blood Diamond was damn good.

th4567890: I see what you're getting at, but don't try to downplay one topic because you feel as though another is more important. Example; what if you knew someone or had family at Virginia Tech and they fell victim to the mass murderer? Would you give two shits about terminal illness in Africa then?