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04-16-2007, 05:49 PM
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Elf Lord
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The massacre at Virginia Tech. :*-(
I just wanted you guys on campuses to know I'm always praying for you.
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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04-16-2007, 06:39 PM
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thanks Sis, because I'm in deep water right now...
 Seriously however, I haven't familiarized with this news yet. It's brand-new to me...
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04-16-2007, 06:40 PM
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Elf Lord
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Have you looked? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18140727/site/newsweek/
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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04-16-2007, 06:43 PM
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Now what the heck started this madness?...*goes on reading*
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04-16-2007, 07:07 PM
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33 people dead, that's terrible. If even a place of education can't be safe, just... damn.
Who does that?
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04-16-2007, 07:31 PM
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I just heard about this - I usually don't turn on the news during the day, and my husband just called me and told me about it ...
Terrible!
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04-16-2007, 07:43 PM
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Damn! Who started that? That's terrible. I can't believe someone one would kill 33 people at a college campius
I just heard of this just now. That makes me not want to go to college. Is no place safe?
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04-16-2007, 07:53 PM
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the Shrike
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Good godfrey cambridge.... what kind of sicko does this?
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04-16-2007, 07:56 PM
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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04-16-2007, 08:17 PM
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Words just completely fail. How do people get to this point where they think everything can be solved with a hail of gunfire?
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04-16-2007, 08:36 PM
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My brain is incapable of understanding this tragedy, or even absorb what's going on.
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"I can’t really think about myself, I can only think about how hard this is going to be for the families. I’m sitting here watching the death count rise, the number keeps going up. I’m in shock. I’m not afraid to walk out the door. This isn’t some militia campus full of guns or gangs. This is a nice place to be. This was an isolated incident." This incident does not mean that college isn't safe. It means that someone at Virginia Tech was very unwell, and very violent. *hugs*
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04-16-2007, 10:11 PM
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Some of the students closed their classroom door and held it blocked shut with a table, risking the bullets by getting that close, and thus saving their class. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6561733.stm I'm grateful for the presence of mind and courage that several students in the shootout showed.
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04-16-2007, 11:14 PM
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HOLY Crap!
 I've always kidded around that college is so much safer, because unlike high school no one wants to kill each other in college. I cannot believe the body count, the guy must have been loaded down like rambo.
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04-17-2007, 12:24 AM
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I'm still in shock over this whole thing. I thought living through 9-11 was history enough for this generation.
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04-17-2007, 01:39 AM
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Elf Lord
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Was he bullied or a revengeful bf? Not that these are mitigating circumstances to go in and mow down 33 people.
Absolutely horrid - another Bowling for the Columbine. Guns should be prohibited in the eductional facilities and ppl who enter campuses should be body-searched or x-rayed. |
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04-17-2007, 02:04 AM
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I disagree, and even ignoring abortion, there are lots of other examples I could point to where huge collectives of people have together become ruthless killers. I don't view most people as "safe" at all. Quite the reverse. I agree with you that most westerners aren't likely to snatch up a gun and shoot up a classroom. I don't find that an adequate definition of "safe," though, and neither do I think it applies to people in general, but I don't know if this is the place for that conversation. Quote:
The article doesn't mention their courage either, specifically, but just thinking about it logically, to hold the door shut with the table, they would have to get right up next to the door, and some of the bullets went through the door. They may have shielded themselves somewhat behind the table as well as the door, but with bullets going through the door, that's fairly ify protection.
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04-17-2007, 08:03 AM
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Elf Lord
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If you'd like to debate human nature, or gun control, there's probably a thread for that.
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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04-17-2007, 08:06 AM
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Oh God... This is why I never watch the news or such.
I hope I will never fully understand how a person can get in such an emotional state that they start killing innocent people.
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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