All Hip Forums Users! Massacre at Virginia Tech

Quoting CNN:

"At least 33 people, including a gunman, were killed Monday during shootings in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech, university officials said.
Two people were killed at a dormitory about 7:15 a.m., while another 30 people were killed about two hours later at Norris Hall -- the engineering science and mechanics building -- university officials said.

University police Chief Wendell Flinchum said police were still investigating whether the two incidents are related. Investigators are not ruling out a second shooter, Flinchum said. (Watch the police chief explain where bodies were found )

The death toll at Norris Hall makes the incident the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history."

Keep these students, family and friends in you thoughts and prayers!

 

i most definitely will. they are holding a candle vigil tomorrow afternoon at my school. i am going to try to go. its such a shame such things happen. i still want to try and keep love in my heart. my thoughts fly out to them. peace and love brothers and sisters. Imagine.

 

If it had happened in Iraq, it would be seen as just a normal day.


Maybe the US govt should ban guns - it's ridiculous in this day and age to have a population who are armed up.

 

^totally agree, but many american gunowners wouldn't. i think chris rock was right "bullet control".
very sorry to hear about anything like this happen.. people willing to throw their lives away at such a young age. these students and their families are in my thoughts.

 

I agree.

My compassion to the relatives and friends of those who have died,
but the ignorance of the americans is crazy,
why should I cry about 33 deads versus a few hundred school children in iraq?

 

Respectfully, Bill? That sounds a small bit like 'Big Brother' type thinking.
It still pains me that something like this happened. I'm still in shock about the needless loss of life.
And I agree that Guns are so easy to get off any street on Earth is a HORRIBLE reality. I'll use MY registered vote to help change that.
BTW! Good to see ya again Bill.

 

We should mourn ALL the dead, whether here or in Iraq. Each life lost is a tragedy. Whether they are victims of the war or of a deranged college student, they are all lives ended too soon.

 

Very true.

 

Sorry if I didn't express myself too well there - I meant what I said, but Matt, it goes without saying that I'm horrified by things like this, and I can't imagine how devastated the families must be. It's always a tragedy when young lives are snuffed out by violence.

BTW - guns are getting much easier to procure here in the Uk these days, on the black market. Thousands are being smuggled in from eastern europe and now we've got teenage kids shooting ech other dead over tiny grievances over drugs etc.
Guns are illegal here but it still goes on, although on a smaller scale. It's up to America to decide if guns should be legal there - from an outsiders perspective, one whose always lived in a country where guns are banned, I can't see much argument to support their being generally available.

But compared to the violence both our countries have unleashed in Iraq, it's relatively small in scale. That's what I'd like people to appreciate. Think also about the Iraqi families left grieving in far worse social conditions than enjoyed by us westerners.