OMG 4/16 nevar forget ok?

Holy shit!

This has been buzzing around the office quite a bit today, one question that is thought provoking is why schools are the backdrop for this type of violence and why do we not see this happen more in the modern stress filled workplace.

(at this point ppl looked at me funny, and hid in their offices)

The gunman was quoted, 'DON'T RUN, I HAVE BULLETS FOR EVERYBODY'.

Fuck it. V Tech sucks any way.

thank god... I couldn't take another week of Imus commentary.

Good point. Perhaps the 'gunman' actually went from room to room whispering 'you nappy-headed ho' to each of his victims, who then obligingly fell down dead. After all, it ruined the dignity and fortitude of trillions of otherwise-hardy American citizens.

Pretty scary. UNC is pretty similiar demographically. I know 7 or 8 people that go there. I'm hoping they are not dead.

'there were 'multiple victims' at Norris Hall, an engineering building.'

two of them are engineering students. uh oh.

I go to UNC. Only thing happening here is trees falling all over the place causing power outages.

AP: 'Gunman Kills 30 on Virginia Tech Campus'
AFP: 'Shooting spree on US campus leaves at least 22 dead'
Washington Post: ' 32 Killed in Virginia Tech Shootings, At Least 24 Injured'
ABC: ' 32 Killed in Virginia Tech Shootings, At Least 24 Injured'
CBS: 'At Least 31 Killed In Va. Tech Massacre'
MSNBC: 'At least 31 dead in Va. Tech shooting rampage'
fox: 'Virginia Tech Campus Reels From Shooting That Leaves at Least 32 Dead'
cnn: '• Police chief says at least 22 people are dead; AP reports 31
• Four hospitals report 29 wounded
• Attacks mark deadliest school shooting in U.S. history
• Student describes situation as 'mayhem'; says 2 students jumped from window'

Bravo, press. way to get your facts in order before inciting mass hysteria.

Mass wisteria is more like it.

KABC said he was an AZN...

the revenge of Ryu!

cue NRA rally to show how they're support for the local community.

^ Cue the sentences we can actually understand.

See? I just tied Imus and this shit all together in one neat little package for you.

ROCK ON.

33 pwnt all told

There was a listing of the last 10 years of school shootings on a website I was reading this afternoon. Nearly all of those shootings were at high schools. The school shootings, by nature, get more coverage for a longer duration. I would be curious to see the ratio of school shootings to workplace shootings on a per capita type (population in the situation) basis. One wonders that if school shootings are more common on that basis, could that be attributed to the kind of intense emotional pressure cooker that adolescence is/has become for some kids.

Duh.

It's because of violent video games, dummy.

the school must have cut him off from his MMOGs, using too much bandwidth -- dont mess with the asians and their internet

Or their gambling. I dealt at a casino outside of Chicago for a few years. Those little slanty-eyed cocksuckers are fuking RUTHLESS.

Shit. Now it'll be against the law to carry a concealed asian. I'll have to get a permit or something

Why wasn't the campus evacuated after the first shooting? I dunno. You tell me.

^larry was out seek

Acheron - I really hope your friends are alright. If I weren't atheist, i'd throw a prayer or two your way.

Acheron - I really hope your friends are alright. If I weren't atheist, i'd throw a prayer or two your way.

The bolded portion is the only needed response.

Why is it always 'gunman kills...', and not 'nut job kills...'?

Because guns are teh debbil. You know that.

Or, better yet, 'gun nut kills...'?

If you leave a gun alone it'll never hurt any one. Really.

Take an AK47 and put it in a closet and 20 years later it won't have a single person.

Same thing is true for bazookas and hand guns and howitzers and hammers.

We don't need gun control. We need better nut control

I heart the word bloodbath

cue the liberal statistics and ranting

^ You go first

In Switzerland, the government issues to every man an M-57 assault rifle and 24 rounds of ammunition which they are required to keep at home. The surplus guns (after upgrades and such) are sold to the general public.

Gun crime in Switzerland is so rare they can't assemble statistics about it.

Their schools and public buildings don't have gun control limitations. Politicians aren't surrounded by police escorts.

Sure, this is anectdotal evidence, but it seems to me violent crime is the product of societal factors that seem to be absent in places like Canada and Switzerland where guns are everywhere but people aren't shooting each other in the head very often.

And the Winner is:
Cho Seung-Hui

I bet that fucker would have set off huge phrenology alarms if only they had thought to test that.

Shit I guess he sent out his anonymous warning....

Students at the university's online newspaper, planetblacksburg.com, today discovered a message on a website that seemed to announce the massacre.

Posted early yesterday morning on 4chan, a website that allows anonymous postings, the message warned: 'hey /b/ I'm going to kill people at vtech today in the name of anonymous.'

Nice. Good ol' 4chan.

Anyone know what specific antidepressants he was taking? The whole episodes reminds me of the kid taking paxil in The Drugging Of Our Children

Stay away from any drug that has a television commercial.

stay away from any television that has a drug commercial. works better

OMFG.. that would include beer ads and wine too? Ah hell no!

beer and wine are food items, not drugs. you can't cook with 'alexlivia' or what fuckitall name they come up with--it breaks down with the heat...

SWEET! As news coverage starts to droop we get into the really juicy tidbits... Like the fact that

'The Massacred Victims were full of possibilities'

Story Highlights• NEW: Bio-systems engineering student wanted to help others, profs say

Oh shit! A person that wanted to help other poeple... FUCK!!!! NOOOOO!!!

Damn you Cho Seung-Hui! Why couldn't you have just targeted the students who were only in it for the cash and didn't give a shit about anyone else!

^funnay as hell! hice find Clavis!

There all shhoters i tell ya!

Um, alcohol is a drug. Maybe the fluid surrounding it is a food item.

^ fie on you yellow man! anyhow the beer/wine they peddle on TV isn't any good anyhow.

So, apparently the right to free speech doesn't apply when there is mass hysteria going on.

It was a class discussion about VaTech, where you were only allowed to discuss one half of the situation? That sounds awfully academically dishonest to me.

I would've submitted this as a link... but for some reason IE refuses to let me.

Why does IE hate America ?

or is it uart ?...