Shooting in US - Virginia

Could i ask why some students wear thier military dress at uni's in the states?

Is Virginia Tech a stepping stone to Westpoint?:confused:

C

Canuck- Virginia Tech is a land grant school, part of their original intent was to teach military tactics. Virginia Tech has a program to train their students for military careers. My alma mater is also a land grant school with a Corp Program. They wore uniforms and did drills each day. Many were commissioned into the military as officers upon graduation.

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Originally Posted by surgtech1956

I really get tired to the media. I know they have a job to do - reporting the news. But I get tired of the 'spin' that is put on. I think the university thought the decision that they made was the right one at the time. Everybody has an opinion and the media seems to find each and everyone of them. .

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This is why I chose not to use my degree in journalism. The "If it bleeds it leads" mentality is appalling. They always have to look for the most horrendous, most shocking or most controversial story to sell their product.

We could debate for hours if the university made the right decision and point fingers now that we know the outcome, but where is that going to get us? IMO the original thought that the first incident might have been a domestic dispute seemed like a rational assumption. The people who made the decision to focus on it that way are probably already sick with guilt and asking themselves "What if?". The media has played out the "Why didn't they???" angle too far.

And as someone who went to a university double the size of VT in students and comparable size in acreage, I wonder how the administration could have prevented the second shootings. Sadly, I could see this happening at most universities. The freedom colleges afford also leaves the students and faculty vunerable.

My hope is that all universities can pull out their disaster plans and study them, learning from this tragedy.

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Originally Posted by oxysback

People can make all the gun laws they want, but the only people that will abide by them are responsible citizens. A 'law' isn't going to stop someone that isn't going to follow the rules in the first place. There will never be a law that will stop psychos from doing psychotic things.

Those poor people...it was a given that none of them would be able to protect themselves, being that they were in a gun free zone. I wonder if people would think twice about doing this kind of thing if there was a possibility of retaliation from their 'target'?

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great point. I did read an article just recently about a shooting on another college campus where the shooter entered a building, went to an upper floor and shot one person, then went to another floor and began to shoot other students. Two students ran from the building to their nearby vehicles and got their own guns. they returned to the building and sudued the shooter. What would have happened had someone been able to reraliate?

This is such a terrible situation. Unbelievable! But you can't blame guns, if he couldn't get a gun, he would have built a bomb or something else. If people ar going to kill they don't need a gun. "Gun's don't kill people, People do"

As a young female living by myself, I feel much more safe with guns in my house. If I didn't have them, I would be worried, what would I do if someone broke in my house???

Evil is the problem here. Sin is the problem here. Take guns away and only criminals will have guns.

Aggie-thanks for the info :)

I have to post this link to the nzherald site. I'm not saying anyone's comments are right or wrong but i'm saddened by some of the comments :(

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/...ectid=10434649

C :(

CC- thanks for posting that link. It was interesting. How little understanding we have of/for others sometimes...