Deadly shooting at Virginia Tech

[Shock]

I'm speechless.

[jacob hunter!]

Hmmmm I wonder what was their motive. Just bored and wanted to kill humans? Or was it hatred hmmmmm people these days... more and more unpredictable.

[Lisa]

Thoughts go out to anyone who has been affected by this.

 

Such an evil world we live in

Edited April 16, 2007 by Lisa

[Chambahs]

The highest possible reason why this happend:

 

www.pwned.nl

[Slipped]

The University President confirmed 31 dead including the gunman. Watching the press conference now... this is a really bad deal. They did lock down the building that the first shootings occurred in, but with the police and everything there, they weren't expecting the guy to turn up on the other side of campus and start shooting again. Maybe they should have been better prepared and maybe it was a mistake, I'm not one to say, but pointing blame at anyone isn't going to do anything.

[rootbear75]

The highest possible reason why this happend:

 

www.pwned.nl

chambahs... stfu

i highly doubt that

 

video games are not the reason behind everything like everyone thinks they are.

[★ Dav]

if you guys want to start the video game debate do it in politics.

 

I just heard a death count of 33 on the news here

[Chambahs]

I just tried to throw a little joke in there, but i guess everyone is too tense.

[Shock]

Same, Dav, 33 including shooter.

[nahtaiveL gniK]

I go to Radford and I've worked at Tech and my family works there too, it definetly is a horrible thing. My family and friends are alright but this morning was spent on the cell phone, classmates were crying and I made sure my family was alright. I didnt know so many other SSers were at Tech, I thought me and Cord were the only ones. It's good to know that you all are alright.

[Audry]

Where the !@#$%^&* is this world going >=/

[Incomplete]

My condolences for those who were affected.

[Shock]

I just heard that the shooter was Asian.

[Slipped]

I just heard that the shooter was Asian.

Yeah, they said it was an Asian guy in his 20's.

[🜲 Samapico]

holy potato...

[Obsol33t]

Maybe they should have been better prepared and maybe it was a mistake, I'm not one to say, but pointing blame at anyone isn't going to do anything.

 

The best thing thing for them and other schools to do is to learn from the mistakes that were made. Even then, no matter what precautions schools take, it won't completely prevent an incident like this from happening elsewhere in the country. What should be done is informing the students how to react in situations like these. Even though these incidents occur at random, students will be better informed on how to act in a crisis such as this.

Edited April 17, 2007 by Obsol33t

[★ D1st0rt]

I have addressed this subject more at length in the Trench Forums

[Guest k0zy]

That's really sad...

[Hiperiberia]

I'd like to give my condolences to anyone that lost a family member or friend because of this.

[Aileron]

"Preventing" instances like this with security measures is impossible. Destroying life is so easy, and its impossible to protect the student body from the student body. This event doesn't shock me. I for one think its been a while since the last one. Society won't stop these shooters until we can understand them. By "understand", I sure as !@#$%^&* don't mean "feel sympathy towards". Infact, I believe it is sympathy itself that has lead to these types of killers.

 

 

Suppose for some reason or another you really liked to follow rules. Suppose you were in a sort of long distance race. A short distance into the race the course crosses a street with no traffic. The streetlight says "do not walk". You stop, but your opponants jaywalk. However, the judges of the course are sympathetic and forgive the compe!@#$%^&*ors for such a minor infraction. Later in the course, there is a corner which turns around a lawn with a sign "Keep off the gr!@#$%^&*". You go around. Your compe!@#$%^&*ors cut accrossed the grass However, the judges decide that since this is a minor rule, they shouldn't be penalized for it. The rules of the race state "No outside help". About halfway through the race, you have to stop to drink water from a fountain. Your compe!@#$%^&*ors have friends who hand them bottles of water so that they can keep on running. The judges do not view this as unfair.

 

Eventually, despite working harder than your compe!@#$%^&*ion, they still win, because they kept taking shortcuts and you did the course alone and by following the rules.

 

The academic careers of these killers is similar. They like to follow the rules, which creates the situation in which anger builds up. For instance with a common homework !@#$%^&*ignment, they go home and do it themselves, whereas their classmates will form a group and do it collectively. Their classmates more often than not get better grades for less work because of this. The would be killer however has a social disorder and thus can't join a group, has to work five times harder for a grade that is much worse. They hate "second chances", following the logic that some people don't get their "first chance", and they deserve to have one before someone else gets two. Eventually they begin to lose the concept of fairness, and anger overwhelmes them.

 

I don't know exactly how that anger morphs into psycotic rage. It easily builds up into a general desire to prove their superiority over others. I guess they pick up the belief that the act of killing somebody implies superiority from somewhere.

[rootbear75]

i totally agree with you ail.

didnt need to post it twice to get your point across tho

[★ Dav]

duplicate post deleted.

[🜲 Samapico]

I for one think its been a while since the last one.

The last one was here in Québec, in Dawson College. It was a few months ago... in September or October

 

Check this post in trench forums... ô.o

[Shlazzer]

We should all go make our own seperate country.. buy some island in the bahamas and make our own laws.

Continuum land.. no guns, and free internets for SS use..

 

It'd be nice

 

 

 

 

 

None the less.. what the !@#$%^&* is going on in this wild !@#$%^&* world of ours... Why do people have to be so !@#$%^&*ing re!@#$%^&*ed.

[Swift Warrior]

shooter is south korean nationality, early 20's, !@#$%^&*umed to have shot his girlfriend and started a rampage