Jackass Thompson is going to have a field day with this one...

As of 24 hours ago, CCN reported a former student of Northern Illinois University returned to his old stomping grounds to do a little house cleaning with a firearm then turned it on himself.

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DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then shot and killed himself, said university president John Peters. Four died at the scene, including the shooter, and two later died at the hospital, he said.

At least 22 people, including a graduate student who was teaching an ocean sciences class, were shot, Peters said. Seventeen victims were taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, its Web site said. Of those, six were in critical condition and were flown to other hospitals. One fatality, a male, was confirmed -- but was not the gunman, the hospital said. Two were admitted, and three others were discharged. The other five were not addressed on the Web site. Four of the fatalities were female, said Peters.
Most of the injuries are head and chest gunshot wounds, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN.

The gunman started shooting from a stage in the room shortly after 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) in Cole Hall, officials said. Police Chief Donald Grady said authorities do not yet know of a motive. They know the identity of the gunman but have not released his name, Grady added. The shooter was a graduate student at NIU in the spring of 2007. Currently he was not enrolled there but, Grady said, "He may have been a student elsewhere."
Kevin McEnery said he was in the classroom when the gunman, dressed in a black shirt, dark pants and black hat, burst in carrying a shotgun.

"He just kicked the door open, just started shooting," said McEnery, who was in the class at the time. "All I really heard was just people screaming, yelling 'get out.' ... Close to 30 shots were fired."

There are about 162 registered students in the class that met in the large lecture hall. A student described the classroom as having four exits - two at the front and two at the rear. "Witnesses say someone dressed in black came out from behind a screen in the front of the classroom and opened fire with a shotgun," Peters said.
At 3:03 p.m., NIU police responded, and four minutes later, the campus was ordered into "a lockdown situation," Grady said.
At 3:20, an all-campus alert went out via the campus Web site, e-mail, voice mail, the campus crisis hotline, the news media and various alarm systems, he said.

"The message basically was: There's a gunman on campus, stay where you are, make yourself as safe as possible," he said.
Rosie Moroni, a student at the school, told CNN she was outside Cole Hall near the King Commons when she heard shots coming from the classroom she was heading to. The shot was followed by "a lot of people screaming," then people ran out the doors yelling, "He's got a gun, call 9-1-1," she said.
"It was complete chaos. It's very scary here right now." By 4 p.m., DeKalb police had swept the area "and determined there was only one gunman" and that he was dead. Grady said the man used three guns: a shotgun, a Glock handgun and a small-caliber handgun, and was still on the stage when he turned one of the guns on himself. The small-caliber handgun has not been recovered, he said. The shooter started with a shotgun, then switched to a handgun, said Grady.

A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives told CNN that agents were on the scene, and could help trace the weapon or weapons used. Peters said the FBI is processing the crime scene and ATF was interviewing witnesses Thursday. Events and classes were canceled until further notice, Peters said. Seven counseling areas were set up throughout the campus, and hotlines were established.

Security around campus was increased in December when police found threats scrawled on a campus bathroom wall that included racial slurs and references to last April's Virginia Tech shootings. One of the threats said "things will change most hastily" in the final days of the semester. Peters said there is no evidence that points to a link between the December incident and Thursday's shooting. Grady said it was unlikely authorities could have prevented Thursday's tragedy. "As much as we do, it's unlikely that anyone would ever have the ability to stop an incident like this from beginning," he said.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared a state of emergency, which will open the governor's disaster fund to reimburse local government entities for "extraordinary expenses related to the response in NIU DeKalb" and will allow the state Emergency Management Agency to provide assistance, the governor's office said in a statement. The 113-year-old school is 65 miles west of downtown Chicago and has an enrollment of more than 25,000. The campus covers 755 acres.

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That's some fucked up shit and it's starting to become a little too common these days.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

His 15 minutes were up 6 years ago. This is like a death rattle by now; and a rather desperate one at that.

How ya doing, buddy?

No seriously, guys. What the fuck is in the water back east that makes you fuckers go bonkers with firearms in the schools?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

But can't it be agreed that it's up to the individual to discern what is right and wrong? Why blame an entire media for the completely nonsensical and irrelevant fuckups of a few prats?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Capo

Didn't I just say I wasn't really blaming anyone? It's more a general product of our society, our entire line of development up to this point. Maybe it's just a general human trait. Doesn't change the fact that it's disconcerting.

Oh... I didn't mean to sound accusatory or anything but yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes I just have to sit back and rationalize that there are some people in the world who are THAT fucked up and yes they WILL snap. It's more disconcerting to me that right away people flock to find tertiary sources to point fingers towards when in reality they should probably be looking into what caused this young man to go bonkers.

Maybe it was in the water... Maybe it wasn't. It's still worth a look.

I was speaking idiomatically.

ISSUES CAUSED BY VIDEO GAMES.

It's true. I'm sure it's in the bible somewhere. Halo Deathmatches featuring Jesus with a plasma rifle blowing niggas away like it's Compton up in this bitch!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?