Unofficial Tex Murphy

Anybody here know if anyone here has been hurt or affected personally by the thing at Virginia Tech?

I have no words to describe accurately the gruesomeness of the situation, other than to offer my sympathies for the ones who've lost someone close to them.

Bloody nutcases!

-Fred

Indeed... my sympathies to the families and friends of those lost in this horrible event.

I hope nobody knows anyone who might've been close enough to be involed?

It never ceases to amaze me how sick some poeple are.

-Cub. =o)

Man, I just learned of this happening about thirty minutes ago, and I'm shocked. 33 people dead? This goes beyond nutcase. With this kind of body count, there was nothing going throught this guy's mind, except how many people he could take with him.

I feel terribly about this whole thing, because this is the kind of tragedy you have no way of defending yourself against. These things happen on a large scale, and in a public place, and the perpetrators are usually the sickest human beings on the planet. These people were taken by violent, bloody surprise, and it literally makes my stomach turn to imagine what it was like to have been in or around that ordeal. It makes me even sicker, that I can say "these things", because they have happened before. Just never this many casualties. It's sickening.

To anybody affected by this tragedy, it may not mean much, now, in the hours immedieately following this insanity, but my heart goes out to you. I cannot begin to imagine the feelings you're going through.

Oddly enough I have applied to this school. Very sad indeed.

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I hope everyone who was injured will be fine!

-Sam

I just saw in on the news CNN and BBC

and what amezed me is that there discusint the fact that they want to keep the right to bear arms.

Ohh well im from europe the netherlands and u we are not that liberal here here guns are not alowed to everyone who can sight a name on a piece of paper.

To be honest i do not see the need for every emerica to own a gun but on the other hand if u want to harm peaple its too easy to get one there.

just my thought though.

My thought go out to all who lost a loved one.

I think they all have guns because they fear that someone might invade their territory (both through war and crime) and hence they feel the need to blast anyone. But then they take the power that a weapon has too lightly and kill everyone without concequence.

American law is sick, I vote we shoot all the NRA (see what I did there, hypocracy )

I've been doing some reading on the shooting this morning; and I can say I'm a bit frustrated. Firstly, 32 people dead is just shocking, shocking and sickening.

What really has got me frustrated is that the campus officials did not close down the campus after discovering the 2 people shot in the dorms. In articles, I have heard one specific discrepancy.

In one part of an article, it is said that campus officials believed the dorm shooting to be domestic in nature, and a contained event; such as a murder-suicide event.

Later on, it says that the officials believed the killer had left campus after the first shooting, and there was no cause to believe anyone was in any farther danger.

Let me just say that the campus needed to be shut down. The idea that the first shooting took place, and nobody was made aware of it, and nothing beneficial was done, is just wrong. You don't just carry on with your daily routine when it appears two students have been gunned down in a dorm.

Sigh...very unfortunate indeed. I do not know anyone who was injured, killed, or experienced this in any way, but my heart goes out to those. All I can say is that I hope time can heal those wounds as well as possible.

Let's concentrate on the victims and the families of those affected, and not try to commandeer this tragedy to make a political point.

Tragic hardly describes that event. It simply takes one's breath away.

I dont get it werent there two different shootings and only one shooter? Why wasnt this contained?

What really gets me is that they told everyone to run and hide.... by email.

But it's so sad about those that died. They were all so young too. Why are guns even legal? They should just be removed from society.

Unfortunately, how would you go about doing this? Guns are not even the only way to kill people. As they say, guns don't kill people - people kill people. And where there's a will, there's always a way.

Jerry Dan wrote: As they say, guns don't kill people - people kill people.

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, "but the gun helps."

I wasn't sure if I was going to post in this topic. I spent the last night binge eating in stress after hearing the news. I'm keeping all politics and pro/anti $#it out of it.

But, my heart goes out to the friends and families of the victims, and to those who have passed, I wish them peace.

PS Edit to add, hmm..anti profanity built in the message board. I sure didn't put $# there.

I'm not sure whether to say this or not as I agree with Jen and the others about not wanting to get political about it all, except that if the loon didn't have a gun there wouldn't be 33 dead, there'd be about 3.

I just hope (again) that it never happens again.