Virginia Tech Shootings, 33 dead, including shooter Options

[THECHICKEN]

Yea seriously. Just because your friend got shot with a 45 and lived doesn't mean the 9mm is a round that won't kill you. Normally 1 45 will kill you, that's why you get them to kill someone in one shot.

I think you were missing my point. I wasn't saying the 9mm isn't dangerous, or doesn't kill. WHat i was saying is that i was surpised that he was able to kill THIRTY people with the shitty rounds.

Columbine: TWO kids with rifles and bombs killed 11 kids and a teacher
UT sniper Whitman: Ex-marine, hit about as many people as this kid with RIFLE rounds, center mass, and not counting his wife and mother, (and a point blank shotgun blast to the tower secretary) killed only 13 people with rifle rounds hiting almost every person in the chest.... and that was 40 years ago (medicine-wise) (oh and don't forget one of those kills was an unborn child too)

What i was trying to say is that its surprising to me that a kid with two SMALL pistol types killed SO MANY PEOPLE, when people with more fire power in the past couldn't rack up such a number.

Oh and my friend wasn't wearing armor, he was actually saved by being a larger guy and that kept him from bleeding out too much. He actually driving when he got shot and still managed to drive a couple miles to a gas station, walked in, said "ive been shot" and collapsed. Lost more blood than they say you can before death, but they put him back together and he walked out of hospital shortly later.

[The Fanatic]

I read those two stories of his.

wow...at the risk of understatement, he's a really terrible writer.

obviously he has issues, but I've written on more disturbing subject matter. hell tech published a short story where I wasted a guy.

but this guy sucks ass! fuckin' nauseating.

what bothers me about this dipstick is that now creative writing will be under more scrutiny for disturbing subject matter... and the author will have to deal with "the system's" pseudo-freudian analysis...

fuckin lame-o

why couldn't he have been an accounting student?

I agree, the plays were extremely boring.

[GOB]

yeah, that's the lamest shit i've ever read... been here for 14 years and he still writes in broken english.

and what an absolute atrocity to attach to the name "mr. brownstone," possibly the best guns-n-roses song.

[Mommy]

I only saw the one about the son and stepdad...where is the other story?

[The Fanatic]

I posted a link with both...

[Mommy]

I posted a link with both...

Im dumb. i didnt see where to click for the other story

[dauss]

yeah, that's the lamest shit i've ever read... been here for 14 years and he still writes in broken english.

I've read some TTU history papers, and I'm surprised that they're even in college with their writing skills, even though they've lived here their entire lives.

[Seeker]

i just read a news story that he died with the words "Ismail Ax" written on his arm in red ink
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_t...ing_supect.html

does anyone know WTF that means?

google search just returns 2 results, it looks like it might be a name in france or something

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cli...amp;btnG=Search

[Seeker]

i think it's his WoW screen name, lmao

[Seeker]

ok, there are two different theories circulating on all the blogs, one is he's referring to ishmael (sometimes spelled ismael) and abraham... another is a reference to james fennimore cooper's "the prairie"

[James]

ISmail is a mail server. That's what first crossed my mind when I saw it. I doubt we'll ever know though.

[Hartmann]

ok, there are two different theories circulating on all the blogs, one is he's referring to ishmael (sometimes spelled ismael) and abraham... another is a reference to james fennimore cooper's "the prairie"

Why would it be a reference to Abraham?

I won't get into the religious side of things simply because I don't think it matters what this kid was thinking, and I doubt we'll ever really know for sure.

[Mommy]

Why would it be a reference to Abraham?

I won't get into the religious side of things simply because I don't think it matters what this kid was thinking, and I doubt we'll ever really know for sure.

Cho indicated in his letter that the end was near and that there was a deed to be done, the official said. He also expressed disappointment in his own religion, and made several references to Christianity, the official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_...a_tech_shooting



Actually, it very well could be in reference to Abraham's son. Apparently, he wrote about religion in the letter found in his dorm room. The more I read about this kid, the more he creeps me out.

[schwab]

then there was all this shit about how he stalked girls, took pictures of people in class under his desk, and even had had the cops called on him. He was under review for psychological shit, and even stayed a couple of nights in some place to be reviewed....

yet nothing popped up when he bought his gun. If you have mental instabilities and the police have been called on you, you shoudnt be able to get a gun that easily.

[Mommy]

One teacher at VT had him removed from her class roster. She told the school that if they left him in there, she would quit. After that, they assigned him a tutor and the tutor set up a code word for the police to be called just incase because she was frightened of him as well, although she never had to use it. People in his classes joked around that he was going to come in and shoot everyone. Guess that wasnt much of a joke.