At least 21 dead at Virginia Tech

[ghost of miles]

Addendum: especially when you consider that this campus had just gone through a "gunman-run-amok" incident last year.

[BERIGAN]

You are right ghost, something was clearly very poorly handled in this situation. Get the kids out of the classrooms! Error on the side of caution. And, didn't anyone have a gun? A campus this big, no security guards with guns?????

[catesta]

A real tragedy.

[RDK]

Only in America.

...this shit happens all over the world as we speak.....not just in America....sad none the less!

Yeah, horrible as this is, it's hard to compare this with what's going on in, say, Darfur.

Why do they have to be compared?

Not trying to compare (though I guess i did say "compare" -_- - just pointing out that this sort of thing doesn't happen "only in America."

[clifford_thornton]

Just hearing of this now. Jesus.

[Brownian Motion]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

[ghost of miles]

Iraq?

[BruceH]

I've been hearing about this on the radio for more than an hour now. Terrible.

[Scott Dolan]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody?

True....a shotgun perhaps? Brownian's talking about assault weapons, but I thought the guy had a couple of pistols 9mm and .22? Maybe the authorities haven't yet said?

[Brownian Motion]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

At one point he lined people up and shot them all down, execution style. You can't do that with a bolt action rifle.

[Aggie87]

BM/Al -

Off topic, but your signature moebius image gets really annoying after about the third time I see it in the same thread. It's too big and distracting - any chance you can remove it? i

[sal]

A student on the phone with a news network is saying that there were students jumping out of the top story windows of one of the buildings, some landing on the ground and not moving afterwards. Horrible.

[Scott Dolan]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

At one point he lined people up and shot them all down, execution style. You can't do that with a bolt action rifle.

Nope, but you can do it with a shotgun or a pistol.

[WD45]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

At one point he lined people up and shot them all down, execution style. You can't do that with a bolt action rifle.

Nope, but you can do it with a shotgun or a pistol.

You can do it with any of the above. A skilled operator can fire a lever-action quicker than a semi-auto. Same goes with a revolver.

[Scott Dolan]

Good point.

[Dan Gould]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

How ironic yet appropriate that his screen name can be shortened to "BM".

[catesta]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

At one point he lined people up and shot them all down, execution style. You can't do that with a bolt action rifle.

I heard the same story, but the news said that was never confirmed.

[Brownian Motion]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

C'mon, BM.

How ironic yet appropriate that his screen name can be shortened to "BM".

Oh Dan, you do make the cleverest observations.

[Johnny E]

Who needs an assault weapon to kill somebody? If the guy had his mind set on it as much as he obviously did, he would have found a way to carry out his plan no matter what kind of weapons he would have had to resort to.

[Johnny E]

You can do it with any of the above. A skilled operator can fire a lever-action quicker than a semi-auto. Same goes with a revolver.

Sounds like a good case for gun control to me.

[sheldonm]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

...he had two handguns.

[GregK]

You can do it with any of the above. A skilled operator can fire a lever-action quicker than a semi-auto. Same goes with a revolver.

Sounds like a good case for gun control to me.

I agree.

[Brownian Motion]

Only in America.

Not only awful, but highly incorrect as others have already pointed out.

Name another civilized country where you or I can purchase an assault weapon for our private use.

...he had two handguns.

They still could have been assault weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_assault_weapons_ban

[Chuck Nessa]

Please don't be stupid and argue about the type of gun. They are dead! Talk to the mothers and fathers and wives and sisters and brothers and cousins and......................................