Why Might You Need a Gun on Virginia Tech's Ultra-safe, Gun-free Campus?

[VApatriot]

VT Alert:

Law enforcement agencies have determined there is no longer an active threat or need to secure in place. Resume normal activities.

Virginia Tech Police, in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, have determined that there is no longer an active threat or a need to secure in place. Resume normal activities.

 

[VApatriot]

The first words out Charles Steger's mouth was to blame guns, and not the sick people behind them!

 

[peter nap]

This thread probably coulda, woulda, shoulda been a POST in a thread we have all been following for the last 3 hours and 20 minutes!

Why Might You Need a Gun on Virginia Tech's Ultra-safe, Gun-free Campus?



anybody else want to start another new thread about another VT shooting?

Wow!

It was, that's why I said it had already been posted.
Anyone else want to correct a thread that's already corrected?

 

[ocholsteroc]

Anyone catching this on Foxnews live? This State trooper is like, large police present here and I feel safe. :banghead:

 

[protias]

I didn't have class today, but I have at least one buddy in lockdown on campus. This buddy is pissed he has been left defenseless. I would be too.

Personally, I think the school should be sued. This is far from the ideal case, however. And god forbid an ideal one ever comes along again.

I read the other day VT is still trying to stop the lawsuits from 07.

 

[HandyHamlet]

Leave it to the OCDO "shock troops" to be on top of a story before the MSM.

Anyone have the definition of irony?

Citizen Journalism.

With technology we can instantly report the news.

Film it, photo it, record it. Post it.





And drive the fascists of Homeland Security absolutely insane.

 

[ProShooter]

Looks like police saw the second "victim" alive. Sounds like he committed suicide when the police spotted him....that's just a guess from what I'm hearing in the press conference.

 

[VApatriot]

Larry Hincker has to go! He is snapping at reporters left and right, and he got real pissy when asked about being in Washington today to appeal the school's fine under the Clery Act for the '07 response.

 

[T Dubya]

The first words out Charles Steger's mouth was to blame guns, and not the sick people behind them!

Can you cite this?

 

[T Dubya]

Seems ANTI Lori Haas is already out there on CBS6 talking about how this just shows the gun show loophole should be closed. And of course Massengill did the same.

Never too early for them to try and score political points.

I tried to find it, couldn't. I did find this: http://hamptonroads.com/2011/12/campus-police-officer-2nd-person-killed-virginia-tech

“I’m sitting in my car double parked about two or three blocks from the hearing, sitting here crying,” said Haas, whose daughter was shot during the campus tragedy four years ago."

"A gun control crusader, Haas said the notion that the easy availability of guns means we live in a safer place is idiotic."

 

[sidestreet]

Why do I carry?

Because Lori Haas is never around when I need her to jump in front of me and flash her bullet proof sign (which also produces an all campus encompassing bullet repellant force field) that reads "No Guns On Campus" and state authoritatively that there is absolutely no reason for anyone to have a loaded gun on campus, because this is one of the safest places in the country, thereby saving us all. And so now, let the kumbayas commence, "Oh Lo--rd, Lo--ri Haas".

sidestreet

Jeremiah 29 vs. 11-13

we are not legal, we will never be legal, but we must be relentless.

 

[VApatriot]

Can you cite this?

It was in the press conference that I was watching live. His statement was along the line of "this university has suffered at the hands of guns." If I can find the whole thing, then I will post it.

 

[hunter45]

I heard that an innocent third party shot the gunman in the VT parking lot. Can anyone confirm this? Maybe an armed citizen?

Edit - Wait, nevermind, they said a third party shot the Police Officer (rather than the person involved in the traffic stop). Now I'm confused.

 

[VApatriot]

I heard that an innocent third party shot the gunman in the VT parking lot. Can anyone confirm this? Maybe an armed citizen?

I haven't heard anything like that yet, and the State Police are surely not confirming anything like that at all at this time.

 

[Grapeshot]

Seems ANTI Lori Haas is already out there on CBS6 talking about how this just shows the gun show loophole should be closed. And of course Massengill did the same.

Never too early for them to try and score political points.

Let no tragedy go unexploited. The WWW* dances on the bodies of the victims.
IMO - totally shameful.


* Put words in order of your own preference: west, witch, wicked, of, the.

 

[nuc65]

I had spoken with officer Foust at the VA Tech protest and asked about lockdown. He mentioned that it is illusory. He said it was a college campus and they cannot 'lock down' the campus. The 'adults' don't have to listen to them and cannot be held prisoner against their will, although they would strongly suggest (blue talk for order without authority) they remain in or out of the bldg.

I wonder.

 

[Doogie]

Can you cite this?


Here you go... 2:25 into vid

http://www.fansonly.com/schools/vtec/allaccess/?media=287746

 

[kellogg2185]

Fox News has the story that the officer was involved in a traffic stop at the time, and the "3rd person" was the shooter, who was not the driver of the stopped car.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/0...a-techs-campus-gunman-sought/?test=latestnews

 

[Sangre]

I haven't heard anything like that yet, and the State Police are surely not confirming anything like that at all at this time.

The State Police seemed to hint that the second unidentified dead man may have been the gunman. From: http://abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-t...ad-lock-lifted/story?id=15114257#.TuFOWYQmSSp

Police declined to say outright that the second shooting victim was the gunman, but said "no additional victims or shooting reports have given to the police" since the second person was shot.

"I think the investigators feel confident that we've located the person, but I don't want to give you specifics," Virginia State Police Sgt. Robert Carpentieri said at a news conference. "You can kind of read between the lines."

I also heard from students on campus about the huge police response, my friend saw DEA and ATF agents, campus, state and local police all over the place. The order without authority matches what they have told me about being on "lockdown", they where instructed to stay inside and students where under the impression they where not allowed to leave.

 

[Uber_Olafsun]

I really want the bio of the shooter to come out. Normally the news is all over this.