Virginia Tech Shooting: At least 33 Fatalities

Apparently the shooter was an Asian man, non-student, who shot and killed his girlfriend after having an argument with her. From there he went on a rampage, but I doubt he would've had enough ammo to kill 22 people unless the whole event was pre-meditated.

The cops were arresting all asians on-sight just to be sure, and there's some talk of there being one man being charged while another presumed gunman being dead.

Pretty weird stuff. Most of them were lined up and shot execution-style. Get ready for the Talking Heads and accompanying Palace thread. =/

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"Cameras tracked down" John Edwards to get his two cents, so if somebody wants to get a shot of John Edwards at a Farmer's Market saying what you'd expect anybody to say, I guess somebody cares about what President Bush has to say.

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I dunno, Yama ever say he's a Libertarian?

The Thompson hoopla is priceless. Not least of which because we have no idea who the perp was other than that he was a young asian.

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I thought about that earlier. We had the same system at OSU Okmulgee. It's all pretty pointless.

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My mom came in today and said, "It's pretty scary."

And I go, "Not really."

"You're not scared?"

"No."

"Why not?"

I guess it's easier for me to not feel scared despite being a college student, as my mom teaches special education at the local middle school (you know, all the 7th grade autistics and the 8th grade arsonists). On the other hand, I also intend to become a teacher myself. It sort of makes me wonder what kind of attitude we'll have in regards to school safety down the line. All I know is that by the time I become a teacher, I'll be able to arm myself on-campus.

Concerns aside, the likelihood of being shot to death at school, is still smaller than dying from a bee sting despite the recent Bee Holocaust. I've got better odds of living to 100. There's no reason to be scared. For anybody.

Edit: Oh great, they just tied in Imus with the shooting on CNN. Wonderful.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Spike

I am actually kinda scared to go back on campus. I just learned that one of my professors got killed and so did my lab TA. The civil engineering department just sent out the e-mail confirming that they died. I just feel so sick. Some people are scared of a copy-cat thing. I hope our concerns are not valid.

I understand what you're going through, but your fears are unfounded. The actual chances of a copycat shooting occurring so soon after this are hardly even worth considering. There's never been a copycat shooting occurring on the same campus in the history of school shootings, and there's nothing to suggest that it'll happen to V Tech.

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Odd. There was a recent shooting in Appalachia that was committed by a Nigerian man. I forget where it was but the idea of foreign nationals committing school shootings becoming a trend is odd, especially in that kind of a locality.

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Think Thompson can tie Starcraft to a school shooting?

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Clue-ins to parenting quality should've been flagged when he wrote a play in 10 pages about a pedophilic father who murders his 13 year-old son. Any Southern Playwright could've come up with that one.

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So Barack Obama's outed himself as a complete shitheel:

Quote:

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/20070416obama.mp3
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi..._Violence.html

"Maybe nothing could have been done to prevent it," he says toward the end.

So he moves quickly to the abstract: Violence, and the general place of violence in American life.

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."

There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.

There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."

There's "the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,"

And so, Obama says, "there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other."

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

What, exactly, would you like to have seen from him?

I guess I would've liked to have not seen him use the largest mass-shooting in US history as an awkward metaphor for outsourcing and Don Imus.

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

Opportunity? It's the most tasteless statement that anybody could make at this point. Brushing it off as "business as usual" doesn't even begin to consider how mind-bogglingly stupid it is. He analogized losing jobs to overseas manufacturing, to being shot in the back of the head.

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Quote:

http://blogs.washingtontimes.com/insiderpolitics/?p=750

“We seem in this country to have a copyright on this kind of violence.” That’s CNN commentator Jack Cafferty on yesterday’s “Situation Room” discussing the Virginia Tech shooting tragedy.

Not to be too morbid, but that’s just wrong. In fact, no American citizens even make the top-four rankings of individual massacres in world history:

- South Korea, 1982. Woo Bum-Kon killed 57 and then himself, using grenades and a high powered rifle
- Australia, 1996, Port Arthur massacre. Martin Bryant, using two semi-automatic weapons, a CAR-15 and an L1A1 SLR, killed 35
- United States, 2007. Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-hui, a South Korean, killed at least 33, including himself
- Japan 1938, Tsuyama massacre. Mutsuo Toi, using an old Japanese rifle and swords, killed 29 and then himself.

Just more factual evidence that it’s far too early to be making blanket assumptions about a national tragedy of this magnitude.

Responding to this article on Reason.com, David Weigel notes:

Quote:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119714.html
I'm waiting for Dr. Phil's researchers to reveal what video games Mutsuo Toi used to play.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Haha what a fuckshit. So intimidating.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

If his plan was to reveal to the world that he was as gigantic a loser in life as in death, then plan succeeded.

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What would we do without the Westboros constantly reminding us that God hates America 'cause we tolerate the gays?

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Keep in mind, he wasn't just bullied, he also showed signs of paranoia, possibly schizophrenia. His great aunt in South Korea said he was antisocial when he was a child. This guy had some serious wires crossed, possibly from the get-go.

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