How can this be? Great sadness for families and their friends.
Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Collegiate
Time newspaper coverage.
From Virginia Tech website: Two shootings on campus today have left 22 confirmed dead. Update the confirmed dead at 2:00 are 28.
Families wishing to reunite with students are suggested to meet at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The university is planning a convocation for tomorrow at noon at Cassell Coliseum for the university community to come together to begin to deal with the tragedy.
Counseling is available in the Bowman Room in the Merriman Center (part of the athletic complex) for employees who seek assistance following today’s events.
All faculty and staff have been released and asked to go home effective immediately.
The university will open tomorrow at 8 a.m. but classes are cancelled.
Cnn video
Bonnie blog of crime
The Leaf Chronicle
At least 17 individuals are wounded.
President George Bush speaks on the right to bear arms.
The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," Perino said, noting that Bush and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings held a conference on school gun violence last October. "Certainly, bringing a gun into a school domitory and shooting ... is against the law and something someone should be held accountable for," Perino said.
More on the shooting at law hawk.
Former student blogs about shooting.
Paula Mooney more on video shooting.
I think I could give up the right to bear arms in exchange for the right not to be shot with arms. As a mostly law-abiding Black man, I think the likelihood of my being killed by an armed person is much greater than the likelihood of my successfully defending myself because I happen to be armed when the drive-by shooting or mall mahem occurs.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Amendment doesn't protect Black's "right" to bear arms, since any Black person who is armed (or unarmed) is fair game for police, who shoot first and ask questions later.
I have fired rifles and guns. The power of the weapon is dangerous. I am not a gun advocate. I do not own a gun. I do not like being in a room with someone who is armed.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a tragedy. It is so easy to take a life with firepower. This senseless act is so painful.
One man has changed the lives of so many people. What was going on at the time? What was the warnings? Who failed to heed the warnings?
The school stated that the university would be opened the next day, but classes are cancelled Business as usual. They better pray that a parent does come and blow up the school.
Lives lost and the close can't take a moment to be still in this madness.