Sounds like a horrible, horrible tragedy.

Over 20+ people killed by what appears to have been a lone gunman. Every major news organization is covering. Check cnn.com or nytimes.com for more details as not everything is known yet.

Haven't watched the news lately, what happened?

According to the Times:

Virginia Tech Shooting Kills at Least 20
By CHRISTINE HAUSER and ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: April 16, 2007

At least 20 people were killed today, some of them students, and more were injured during shootings at Virginian Tech University, some of them at a classroom on the campus, the police said. The gunman was also shot to death, officials said at a news conference, but details about the incident and about the identity of the gunman were still unfolding.

“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said the university’s president, Charles Steger.

There were two shootings, and in each case fatalities with “multiple shooting victims,” he said.

A police official said there were “at least 20 fatalities,” and that some of the victims were shot in the classroom. News of the number of the fatalities sent up an audible gasp in the news conference, said on television reporter in the broadcast.

The shooting was partially captured on a student’s cellphone video camera showing grainy black figures on the street outside of campus buildings. Popping sounds from the gunfire were audible.

“This place is in a state of panic,” said a student who was interviewed on CNN, Shaver Deyerle. “Nobody knew what was going on at first.”

A few details emerged from the news conference. At 7:15 a.m., an emergency 911 call came in to University police department about a shooting at a campus building, and then another call reported a shooting in Norris hall. The shooter there is deceased, the police said.

I was just reading about this, such a tragedy.... it is so sickening that people have to be afraid of going to school because of sickos like this guy.

Wow, I just read CNN. That is horrible. Can't imagine what would ever possess someone to do something so terrible to innocent people.

It's a crazy world. We have two shootings in SE Michigan last week a day apart and now this.

How bad does life have to get to radomly take the lives of 20+ people?

To quote the late and great:

...there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"

Yeah no doubt. I understand some people have had **** go wrong in their lives, some of it is their own fault, some of it isnt. I can understand being pissed off at the world, but how sick do you have to be to walk to a college campus and take the lives of 20+ college students because your pissed off.

I am convinced the human race will eventually wipe each other out, because we always resort to violence.

cnn.com has cell phone video from a student in the area when it was happening. You can't see much, just cops moving in, but you can hear the shooting, and a ton of it.

Second shooting on the Va. Tech campus this year. You'd think they'd turn the place in to a fortress, but really, how can you protect every public place...

You really can't. Its not like high school or middle school, when you can just secure the one building as a preventive measure. College campuses are easy targets because they are so wide open and spread out. To a shooter, the students are easy unsuspecting targets and often times, when a situation like this happens, the chaos that ensues, makes it difficult for law enforcement and campus security to grasp what has happened.

Just sickening when you hear things like this

this is really sad....why dont people like this jus kill themselves it is so sick. its confirmed that he killed 32 people. RIP

Its scary as a college student to read stories like this. Makes me think how easily someone could do that at my school and myself and many others would be completely defenseless.

yeah you hit it right on when you said how college campuses are so wide open and then the chaos that ensues makes it so hard for the police and security to figure it out. its sayin on the news that a couple people were killed in a dorm....then one hour later he continued his rampage.

This sucks, it can happen anywhere which is really scary.

Is 32 a typo? The Times right now is saying 22. Just wondering if you read a higher number reported somewhere else.

jeezus christ! what a waste of good people. why the hell didn't the shooter go to some bad part of town and waste some undesirables instead

ya know like some welfare mom with 15 kids

22 is what CNN and MSNBC are both saying as well.

yeah im watchin the news right on Fox. also FBI is investigating whether it could be a possible terrorist attack...doesnt sound too likely that it was to me though. guess that is probably why i am not in the FBI

Come on man, thats not needed. Its a tragedy regardless of who was killed. Its sad that some people feel that there is nothing left of their lives and they go commit a senseless act of violence like this. Horrible horrible

That's the way I see it.

This was the first thing I thought. Seems like a very simple and effective way to kill a lot of people and strike terror.

I just saw a report that the shooter was a "college-age" asian male.

Does anyone have confirmation on 32? Far as I know its 22, with 4 injured.

Well yeah, its scary for everyone, but when you go to a big university like Va Tech, you just get to thinking how it could happen on your campus tomorrow and you have no way of preventing it. I understand that it could happen anywhere, all I'm saying is when you live on college campus and hear a story like this, it scares the **** ouf of ya.

I go to the university of Iowa and we've actually had a campus shooting before, so it really struck home.

could be a homegrown terrorist i guess....there are definitely crazy people who convert to islam and become violent lunatics.

MSNBC has 22 dead, 28 injured, suspect dead.

Thats all I've seen as well

I must admit, as a college student, this is very scary. I'm watching the footage on CNN right now, and this is horrible.

My thoughts now are that its not a terrorist attack but it certainly is terrifying. Honestly, why cant these nuts just blow their own brains out like a normal person? What does one have to gain by killing all these others? Just sick. What do these people think they're playing a F*ing video game?

confirmed on Fox news 32 people dead....im watchin it live dont think they lie

They just have no regard for human life

Gunman was a heavily armed Asian man according to reports

http://www.foxnews.com/

I suppose this COULD be a typo...

What sites are you guys reading/watching. I've been reading CNN and Yahoo, but haven't seen any other updated reports

I was watching MSNBC and CNN on tv and they said it there.

Fox news is synonymous with fear mongering and false reporting.

Google "Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"
They're the ONLY network saying 32 dead and even MENTIONING the word terrorism.
Do you think CNN and MSNBC are that far "behind"??
Fox has an agenda.

Fox is notorious for poor reporting, but I didn't know if it was showing up anywhere else as well

fear mongering....haha okk well i dont really watch fox all the time or anything it jus happened to be on in the other room, usually the tv is on CNN . but thanks for the update

MSNBC now has the death toll at 31

From http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07106/778468-100.stm

"Everyone is saying that there was this guy who went there and shot his girlfriend and then shot the [residence assistant] who stepped in and reacted to the shooting," Mr. Dillie said.

CNN now says 31 dead. The number I am sure will go higher with the 29 injured in hospital.

Had to figure it started with a domestic incident...one dorm shooting that turns into a rampage.

Now I'd just like to know how the fuck the school wasn't shut the hell down IMMEDIATELY after the first shooting. How could they possibly keep that campus open with the shooter on the loose so that two fucking hours later he kills 30 more people?

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Sickening. I cant believe evil people like this exsist. Burn in hell you fckin loser.

I have applications in all over WNY trying to get a job as a teacher. This kind of crap scares the hell out of me to even try to discipline kids.

Where did you get that, speedz?

Behind every twisted gunman is a woman pulling the trigger...

I keed, I keed...




kinda

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its incidents like this that make me happy i live in canada. im not trying to rag on americans, but this stuff just would never happen in canada.. our mentality towards guns and violence is so much different. we have had scattered incidents as well, but in a country of 35 million its quite impossible for it to 'never' happen.. just with such infrequency it never crosses our minds that it coldu happen to us

im not trying to seem like i dont care that this happens, because it saddens me to knwo that so many people died for no reason..i just dont feel the insecurity that americans do on a daily basis.