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Post by Mr. Durandal on Apr 17, 2007 14:43:40 GMT -5
I thought I'd start a thread on this just to keep everyone up to date on what happened. The facts are pouring in, so if you have some info that han't been posted here about this, then post away.
What we know:
-Bomb threats arrive at school weeks in advance, possibly testing security speed.
-Gunman (Wiki says it's Cho Seung-hui, but you know how unreliable Wiki is), who went to that school, enters first dorm at approximately 7:15 am on April 16, 2007, and guns down 2 people.
-2 hours later gunman crosses to another dormitory and there he kills 30 more people.
-Then he turns the gun on himself.
-Could have been 2 gunmen but it is unlikely.
-Bomb threats have yet to be linked but are not ruled out.
-29 injured, meaning more could be dead.
-Worst shooting in the history of the United States.
This was a terrible crime commited by this man. 33 people, including himself? Pretty bad.
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Post by Sir Metz a.k.a. "Metzy" on Apr 17, 2007 14:53:40 GMT -5
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Post by Porcu on Apr 17, 2007 16:32:03 GMT -5
Horrible incident...
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Post by South Malaysia on Apr 17, 2007 21:21:48 GMT -5
Very horrible indeed. Tech, is only 3-4 hours from where I live...so thats close to home for me, since the Hokies (Tech's football team) is really big in VA [even tho i'm not much of a fan]...The families & friends of Tech students that have been murdered or injured are in my thoughts...even the shooters family...
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Apr 17, 2007 22:58:22 GMT -5
Ya, you gotta feel sympathy for even the killer. He apparently had a medical condition. The school and cops knew about it a long time ago but did nothing. They should have institutionalized him. There were many warning signs, like his pictures and stories in school. They were grotesque and violent, an obvious warning sign.
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Post by Lanayru on Apr 18, 2007 7:02:26 GMT -5
From what he hear his English Teacher actually warned councillors and authorities about him because he apparently wrote some disturbing stuff (One play had someone beating a 13 year old child to death and planning the death of a teacher). But when the teacher mentioned this the police replied with something along the lines of "Don't worry, he won't kill anyone!"
That's just what a British news report says...
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Post by Kritschboilek on Apr 18, 2007 15:55:18 GMT -5
If you read this kind of things... you sometimes begin to wonder what went through nature's mind when we arose on this planet... Perhaps she'd taken drugs or had a bad day...
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Post by Mr. Durandal on Apr 18, 2007 17:36:43 GMT -5
Ya... I just learned that friends of ours in Florida had a cousin who was killed in the shooting. It hit very close to home for us.
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Post by Ignatius on Apr 18, 2007 18:43:41 GMT -5
Looks like Hurricane Cho came to town...
I survived Cho!
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Post by Skydiving Penguin on Apr 19, 2007 16:16:35 GMT -5
This has really been a bad week throughout history. OKC bombing, Colombine, VT, and the Iraq stuff.  (sorry, this stuff is really bad) This stuff makes me sick...sorry.  |
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Post by Ness Snorlaxia on Apr 20, 2007 17:29:14 GMT -5
Indeed. This is truly a sad event, and several other bad things have happened in the past on this week too.  |
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Post by Kritschboilek on Apr 20, 2007 18:27:10 GMT -5
We are all doomed to live in sadness.
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Post by Ignatius on Apr 20, 2007 21:26:20 GMT -5
April sucks ass...
Being the month of Hitler's birth... A prick who somehow managed to wipe out my fellow Yid bruddas..
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Post by Pacdude on Apr 22, 2007 11:29:34 GMT -5
Ya, you gotta feel sympathy for even the killer. He apparently had a medical condition. The school and cops knew about it a long time ago but did nothing. They should have institutionalized him. There were many warning signs, like his pictures and stories in school. They were grotesque and violent, an obvious warning sign. But how many people doesn't have those signs? You can't always think the worst. @voltigeur; It's also the month were my father, a brother and, in a matter of hours, my sisters' child were/are born. |
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Post by Ignatius on Apr 22, 2007 14:12:14 GMT -5
It's also my month of birth, BTW..
That said, April does still suck ass.
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