Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9777922)

One cop is dead and another person also killed, so far.

Shooter is still on the lose, unknown on campus, with the uni locked down.

https://twitter.com/#!/CollegiateTimes For real time reporting from folks on the ground.

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9778219)

Press conference is going on at the mo...cops still on the search.

Seems like a lot of senior cops were in DC appealing the fines they had received for the way they handled the '07 shootings.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9778316)

Again? That sucks. This sort of thing could never happen in my state thank god. In Missouri we have a freedom that people in Virginia don't, and that is the right to concealed carry on campus. Well at least the shooting is over now, good thing only two people died. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9778316)

Again? That sucks. This sort of thing could never happen in my state thank god. In Missouri we have a freedom that people in Virginia don't, and that is the right to concealed carry on campus. Well at least the shooting is over now, good thing only two people died. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9779186)

How much more carnage would there be though if people were carrying on campus?

Twitchy, nervous people with guns, shooting first and asking questions later, I think that would make things more scary and lead to more accidents.

Still, this is a tragic thing to happen, especially to a place that has gone through this before and I'll leave it at that.

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 9779263)

Interesting that you are confident it "could never happen.." I guess you don't have very much experience of life. Consequences are sometimes unexpected.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9779486)

Actually statistics show that 60 crimes are stopped by law abiding gun owners for every 1 crime that is committed by a criminal gun owner.

And if you look at the history of allowing concealed carry on campuses, it shows that it has only had a positive impact. The Appalachian School of Law shooting back in 2002 for instance, was stopped by two students who were concealed carrying handguns. Problem, socialists?

Of course it could happen anywhere, but it wouldn't have happened like this where I live. Everyone out here has like 20 guns and we have open carry. So we have virtually no crime anywhere within a 20 mile radius of my area.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9779486)

Of course it could happen anywhere, but it wouldn't have happened like this where I live. Everyone out here has like 20 guns and we have open carry. So we have virtually no crime anywhere within a 20 mile radius of my area.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9778316)

Again? That sucks. This sort of thing could never happen in my state thank god. In Missouri we have a freedom that people in Virginia don't, and that is the right to concealed carry on campus. Well at least the shooting is over now, good thing only two people died. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9779486)

Actually statistics show that 60 crimes are stopped by law abiding gun owners for every 1 crime that is committed by a criminal gun owner.

And if you look at the history of allowing concealed carry on campuses, it shows that it has only had a positive impact. The Appalachian School of Law shooting back in 2002 for instance, was stopped by two students who were concealed carrying handguns. Problem, socialists?



Of course it could happen anywhere, but it wouldn't have happened like this where I live. Everyone out here has like 20 guns and we have open carry. So we have virtually no crime anywhere within a 20 mile radius of my area.

Originally Posted by Ununoctium (Post 9778316)

Again? That sucks. This sort of thing could never happen in my state thank god. In Missouri we have a freedom that people in Virginia don't, and that is the right to concealed carry on campus. Well at least the shooting is over now, good thing only two people died. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.