What a difference a day makes. They were alive yesterday.
I always wonder about the person that just seems to go crazy and shoot as many people as they possibly can? Why today? What triggered the rage that was responsible for this massacre?
You know that saying about guns not killing people? Well it’s not strictly true is it? Check out this timeline of worldwide school shootings.
It strikes me as very telling that 30 of the 45 shootings happened in the States. I’ve always been of the mind that selling guns in the same place that one gets their baked beans, is nothing but pure madness.
It creeps me out to think the number of guns out there that are in the wrong hands.
What an effing tragedy. Does anybody know who the shooter is?
Invisible
April 16
9:32 pm
WOW.. (this has nothing to do with the news today)
NORA ROBERTS reads your blog?
Karen Scott
April 16
9:44 pm
Lol!!! I forget what a huge thing that is, until somebody reminds me that she’s a megastar!
I always remember as well when I see her books taking up two shelves out of the three they have for romance section in my local Borders.
I always have to fight the urge to tell the book shop people that Nora Roberts knows who I am, lol!
Barbara B.
April 16
10:02 pm
I have to admit that I’m surprised that only 30 of the 45 shootings were in the U.S. I also noticed that all of the shootings appear to have been done by males. No surprise there, though.
loonigrrl
April 16
10:38 pm
This is so horrifying. I appreciate the Constitution just as much as the next person, but . . . gun control? I support it. This kind of thing should never happen.
Gail
April 17
11:21 am
This event defies the ability to reduce it to words. However, the more horrifying outcome will be the people who use it to further their agendas. I’ve already heard a gun supporter say that if one other student had been armed with a gun the outcome would have been different. WTF!! Two people engaged in a gun fight would have been better? Twice as many bullets flying around would have been better???? Yeah, brilliant.
I know those in favor of gun control will just as actively cannibalize the dead to make their point. It’s a fact of life. Simply seems so crude.
Desiree Erotique
April 17
12:34 pm
Sadly, I believe the death toll is up to 33 today. I read this morning that the gunman was a student of VA Tech.
Dawn
April 17
1:41 pm
Heard about it yesterday. A real tragedy, sad to say that I would have been more surprised if it had not happened in the States.
There won’t be any change in the US gun laws. Apparently George Asshole allowed some gun law to lapse last year! The pro-gun lobby have too much clout.
emdee
April 17
3:55 pm
He was a student from South Korea.
Karen Scott
April 17
4:03 pm
There won’t be any change in the US gun laws. Apparently George Asshole allowed some gun law to lapse last year!
Now why am I not surprised?
Emdee, I just read that, I did notice that quite a lot of the victims were black, is that because it was mostly black folks who went there, or was he targeting them specifically?
Do the police think this was a political shooting?
emdee
April 17
5:37 pm
Karen, the reports I watched on CNN here mostly showed the survivors, who seemed to be White and Indian. I have not heard anything about motiviation of the shooter. I haven’t heard any talk of the shootings being political nor have I heard anything about the races of the dead students. I do have to agree tho, nothing will change as far as gun laws. The death lobby is too powerful. The thing that worries me is the anniversary of Columbine is coming up in a few days. The date of that shooting was chosen because it was Hitler’s birthday, April 20.
Rosie
April 17
6:26 pm
Karen as I’m sure you know by now the shooter was a 23 year old student from South Korea.
Here’s the info I read this morning on AOL news.
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/virginia-tech-shooting/20070416102509990001
This is so incomprehensible. I try to think about the friends and families of employees, teachers, students who were working at the university yesterday because it took the whole day for next of kin to be notified. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
I keep wondering when we are going to get a clue about guns in the U.S.
Shelly @ Bewitched
April 18
2:14 am
Nope I don’t think it was political. Just a messed up kid that wanted to take as many people with him as possible.
He was an English major. Someone I could have had classes with (well 9 years ago…) and he was pretty much a loner. Sounds like he snapped. It’s a horrible, horrible tragedy. And there were (supposedly) a couple of kids that were carrying concealed because the police stripped them of their guns as they came out of Norris. He actually bought them legally even though he filed off the serial numbers.
It’s not something that will be forgotten quickly that’s for sure.
Karen Scott
April 18
5:51 am
Shelly, it scares me to think of the number of people who have guns, who will invariably misuse them, and go on and take innocent lives.
FlannerySC
April 19
7:48 pm
Karen said: “Shelly, it scares me to think of the number of people who have guns, who will invariably misuse them, and go on and take innocent lives.”
But in the US our right is to protect ourselves and our families and homes by legally carrying (or having in our homes) guns. I don’t personally own a gun, but I am a member of the NRA. I believe in our right to own one. And you can bet that if I choose to exercise that right, I’d use it to protect me & mine. My children own rifles and shotguns, have learned and practiced gun safety since they were old enough to hold one, and hunt with them. When they reach the age that they have to obtain hunting licenses, they have to take and pass a gun safety course. They respect life in all of its forms, and understand that you don’t kill what you won’t eat (we do) and NEVER point a gun at anyone unless you are willing to shoot it.
Why do the guns themselves become the issue, when anyone with enough money can buy one anywhere in the world if they have enough money? Illegally, I might add. The people using them in this horrific manner have something broken in them. Blame them, not the tool.
Dawn
April 20
10:41 am
Considering just how easy it is to purchase guns legally in the States (and also that no 2 states have the same laws about gun purchase), I think that the authorities should be held to account in some way over this situation.
Yes, guns can be bought illegally anywhere in the world, but why pay an extortionate amount of money for an illegal gun, when you can just walk into a shop and pick one off the shelf?
Laura
April 22
12:48 am
Proud America Fred Phelps(and his family the God Hates Fags church) picketed the funeral of one of the victims today.
Seems the real reason the Virginia Tech students died was America’s “persecution” of Rev. Fred.
There are days when I am simply ashamed to be human.
Karen Scott
April 22
7:05 am
Laura, they are just attention whores, and I really hope something bad happens to them one day.