Virginia Tech Shooting. Again.

brittanyjeanxo

Reported shots fired. At least one found dead. A police officer has been shot. Suspect is wearing a gray hat, marroon sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, and a backpack. If anyone is in that area or at that school, please, for the love of God, stay where you are or get somewhere safe.

http://www.wfsb.com/story/16219871/virginia-tech-on-lockdown

brittanyjeanxo

Updated, the police officer is the one who was shot and killed. Second victim. Not sure if injured or dead.

stephevers1227

Hate this. My husband is a former police officer.

VinVenture

I really don't mean to be rude, but how can this keep happening? Are universities in the US that horrible that people keep doing this? (Keep used as this has happened at that campus twice now, I'm pretty shocked. Again, not meant to be rude)

warmachinejt

guns are too easy to acquire, should have a fingerprint id lock
apart from having to have it registered and have permit

silvergurl518

i know. this is ridiculous. leave this poor campus alone. hell, leave all campuses alone. but virginia tech has had enough blood shed

stephevers1227

Well, we don't know what happened yet, but the article said it was a traffic stop. Who knows what provoked it, but it could have been anywhere.

juliecat1

ugh! I have a friend thats a professor there. I need to call him now! thanks!

m1shootr

You can pass all the gun laws you want. People like that will still perservere and kill.

TheKitsune6

guns are too easy to acquire, should have a fingerprint id lock
apart from having to have it registered and have permit

On the contrary, if at least professors were allowed to arm themselves they could actually defend against someone going around killing 32 people. Yes, a few people might die, but arming law abiding citizens instead of disarming them is how we protect ourselves.

CastleMadeOfSand

Guys, out of reverence and the knowledge that those who feel passionately on this will never agree--let's not turn this into a gun law debate.

chocolateandvodka

first: guns don't kill people. people kill people.

what if everyone was required to carry arms? for starters, that gave me a great visual. but then again... if i were a malicious person, i would think twice about randomly firing off a weapon into a crowd if i thought the entire crowd was armed.

by the way, i think arming every student is a terrible plan. i just wanted to throw it out there.

jenn_is_trouble

Guys, out of reverence and the knowledge that those who feel passionately on this will never agree--let's not turn this into a gun law debate.

AMEN!

brittanyjeanxo

This is not a gun debate. I don't care how anti- or pro- gun you are. This isn't about your opinions. This is about the family of that poor officer. The worried families of the students and staff.

liftingbro

I really don't mean to be rude, but how can this keep happening? Are universities in the US that horrible that people keep doing this? (Keep used as this has happened at that campus twice now, I'm pretty shocked. Again, not meant to be rude)

School shootings happen because young college aged (and HS aged) people are going through a lot of changes in their lives and stress and add to that someone who has mental health issues and you get violence.

n003k

Being Vehemently pro-gun myself...it doesn't friggen matter. Who gives a hoot right now what could have/would've prevented this, or was pointless, you want to debate that, I'm a member of a group you can do that in.

What is important right now is some criminal shot and killed a cop and one other, and there's no good reason for it. A campus that's gone through enough crap in the past 4 years is going through more, and what needs to happen is unity against crime, and behind the victims to support them and their families, not an argument about guns. If you want to argue that, this isn't the place.

lind3400

His poor family

CastleMadeOfSand

fair enough.

lind3400

I changed my answer lol I dont wanna start a fight either

liftingbro

His poor family

35% of all homicides in Canada are via guns. Make you feel better?

AZTrailRunner

What a tragedy!!!

I sure hope all of you anti-gun people don't get this thread locked because of your beliefs!

lind3400

His poor family

35% of all homicides in Canada are via guns. Make you feel better?

Leave it be I tried to take it back

midwifekelley2350

Guys, out of reverence and the knowledge that those who feel passionately on this will never agree--let's not turn this into a gun law debate.

what he said!

Misiaxcore

I suspect enrolment numbers will be down next semester.

Unbelievable.

n003k

Look, you want to debate the gun laws, take it here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/416370-guns-on-campus I made a post specifically for it in the gun lovers group. I'd actually love some of you against it to pop in and debate, I'm a moderator of the group, and our main rule is attacking the argument, not the person, so as long as you feel you have truth and facts on your side, you've nothing to fear.

Let's keep THIS thread about support for the victims though.

Misiaxcore

I really don't mean to be rude, but how can this keep happening? Are universities in the US that horrible that people keep doing this? (Keep used as this has happened at that campus twice now, I'm pretty shocked. Again, not meant to be rude)

School shootings happen because young college aged (and HS aged) people are going through a lot of changes in their lives and stress and add to that someone who has mental health issues and you get violence.

Ugh I have to point out that your statement is stereotypical about those who have mental health issues from a sociological perspective. Not everyone with mental health problems is going to grab a gun and shoot up a campus. People without mental disorders are capable of doing the same. Statements like that give people with mental disorders a bad stigma. They have enough on their plate without sweeping statements like that :flowerforyou:

ofccat

You can pass all the gun laws you want. People like that will still perservere and kill.

I agree. My husband is a PO and I was one. There are lots of gun laws we don't need more. The people who want them to kill others will find them on the black market, etc and no amount of gun laws will unfortunately prevent that. What CAN be done is the judges, etc upholding the law to the maximum extent and not giving slack sentencings. If someone is given life (and stays there) or death peantly -v- 5-10 it would maybe make others think twicw before comitting that crime.

k8bugz

I suspect enrolment numbers will be down next semester.

Unbelievable.

Enrollment wasn't impacted by the 4/16 tragedy and won't be affected by this. Virginia Tech is an amazing community, the hokie nation is proud and strong, and acts of senseless violence will only strengthen our resolve to provide education to our youth and research for a better future.

Blacksburg is my hometown, and I'm a current VT grad student. The shooter was not a VT student, btw.

I was on campus when this happened. I felt completely safe the entire time. I only feel a terrible sense of loss and sadness.

Love more.