At least 22 people were killed in two incidents when a lone gunman opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg on Monday, police said. Police said they believed the shooter was among the dead. Tech President Charles Steger called the shootings "a tragedy of monumental proportions


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html

I'll get back to this when I'm done with the Nigerian rampage. More pressing issues back home.

sad sad sad, now 31 dead (including shooter) i wonder if they will ever find out what went wrong in his head,

God! now College is scaring me oo.

what a thing!

Why did the shooter have to kill innocent people? <<snip:promoting violence>>
It's so sad that poeple died for no reason.

It's so sad my brother. It's said to be the worst in the history of American College. Imagine young college student getting ready to go to class, some already in class, sent to great beyond. oh!! this life  I weep for the young lives that was taken.

i was about to post this topic too,  that story was so sad.  I think they should get rid of guns in the U.S. _{just a suggestion}

Gunman identified as Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old English major from South Korea
Ballistics tests show one of the guns found was used in the dorm and classroom building shootings
"The injuries were just amazing," doctor says


May the victims soul rest in peace. this is sad

Actually it's 33 people including the shooter. It is really sad. My sympathies go to the victims' families.

Gunman identified as Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old English major from South Korea
Note left by Cho rails against "rich kids" and "deceitful charlatans," Chicago Tribune reports
Cho called a loner by university official
Police: Victims found in four classrooms, stairwell

I hope the find a solution to preventing this kind of act and stop the blaming game

I just found out today receiving from my church bereaved announcement (electronically) that i could not believe hearing this.

One of among 32 dead is named Erin Peterson, a student of Virginia Tech. She was my active church member here in Virginia. Virginia Tech is more than 200 miles southwestern Virginia from my currently residence and church---more than 4 hours driving.

Please continue praying for my church member, Erin's family the Hogan and Peterson in the spiritual deliverance of healing processing in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen,

Uspry1

I don't like depression drug, he was said to be on depression drug.

sad that we may never know the motive behind his killing spree. was it a girlfriend issue, roommate issue, family problem, classmates? so many question mark.

he should not have been a loner. he should have come on Nairaland and have fun. and by the time he post one or two, he would have been fine,

May the souls of the departed rest in peace. may the Lord be with the family.

Its a wake up call

omoge:

he should not have been a loner. he should have come on Nairaland and have fun. and by the time he post one or two, he would have been fine,

that is why even in poverty, in the face of rogues like Obasanjo and Atiku, massive election rigging and widespread power outages Nigerians are the happiest people on earth. Perhaps it is because we are too hugnry to go shooting our school mates. In that case long may our hunger last!

omoge:


he should not have been a loner. he should have come on Nairaland and have fun. and by the time he post one or two, he would have been fine,

LMAO.I don't think NL is a good place for someone who is mentally disturbed He would have been more irate if he had used NL cos he would have been engrossed in NL's myriad quarrels

Alternatively,he could have been right at home with many of the nutters that populate this forum

davidylan:

that is why even in poverty, in the face of rogues like Obasanjo and Atiku, massive election rigging and widespread power outages Nigerians are the happiest people on earth. Perhaps it is because we are too hugnry to go shooting our school mates. In that case long may our hunger last!

lol, that is the same thing i sed. this is usually happening in all white skools or sumn,  Africans would not spend their hard earned money on some gun to shoot people,  which time do we have to go and do that ?

with all those police that arrived  lives were still lost

Lord Jesus Christ is the only security we got

LMHO 

4 Play:

Alternatively,he could have been right at home with many of the nutters that populate this forum

For real? lol

Abi ooo, them chop belleful. na person whey dey hunger fit carry gun?

davidylan:

that is why even in poverty, in the face of rogues like Obasanjo and Atiku, massive election rigging and widespread power outages Nigerians are the happiest people on earth. Perhaps it is because we are too hugnry to go shooting our school mates. In that case long may our hunger last!

omoge:

Abi ooo, them chop belleful. na person whey dey hunger fit carry gun?

Here in Nigeria,we kill people for a "cause"-mishandling the Koran,keeping PDP in power,e.t.c

4 Play:

Here in Nigeria,we kill people for a "cause"-mishandling the Koran,keeping PDP in power,e.t.c

The term "Nigerian" does not apply to all of us. Some of us are from Niger and Chad by default. There they kill for mishandling the quran, for being Igbo and for cartoons drawn by an astronaut in the moon.

@ 4 Play

True, there are really sick pple around you know. many are sick upstair.

davidylan:

that is why even in poverty, in the face of rogues like Obasanjo and Atiku, massive election rigging and widespread power outages Nigerians are the happiest people on earth. Perhaps it is because we are too hugnry to go shooting our school mates. In that case long may our hunger last!

Abi o! We still thank God that no one is going around with guns and shooting our students up and down.

This is sad. They should have shut the school down after the first incident.

j-girl:

Abi o! We still thank God that no one is going around with guns and shooting our students up and down.

You never hear about cultism?Cultism takes more student lives per annum in Naija than in the US

cultism is a federal problem. I haven't seen one guy get up and just shoot everyone in school then himself out of depression in naija.

4 Play:

You never hear about cultism?Cultism takes more student lives per annum in Naija than in the US

Cultists shoot fellow cultists. I am yet to hear of a Nigerian kid write a rambling letter about stalking women, strangling his stepfather, buy two guns and go killing his school mates and professors!
Ever heard of a Nigerian kid in depression?

j-girl:

Abi o! We still thank God that no one is going around with guns and shooting our students up and down.

This is sad. They should have shut the school down after the first incident.

How would they send out 26000 students in 2hrs and to where? They were not even aware of the shooter nor what really was happening that would that helped them come to a decision. The school is not to blame! It is easy to blame the school becasue we all expect that Americans should be able to perform magic and do the right thing always. Sometimes they are merely human like us too.

real sad story.
At first I thought Jihad had come to Virginia Tech

davidylan:

Cultists shoot fellow cultists. I am yet to hear of a Nigerian kid write a rambling letter about stalking women, strangling his stepfather, buy two guns and go killing his school mates and professors!
Ever heard of a Nigerian kid in depression?

You overestimate the accuracy of the shooting abilities of Nigerian students.Lecturers,innocent students,e.t.c regularly get shot in Naija

Whatever is the motive behind the violence,the consequence of on-campus violence is felt more by the average Nigerian student than by the average American student.I would be more fearful sending my kids to a Nigerian uni than a US uni

davidylan:

that is why even in poverty, in the face of rogues like Obasanjo and Atiku, massive election rigging and widespread power outages Nigerians are the happiest people on earth. Perhaps it is because we are too hugnry to go shooting our school mates. In that case long may our hunger last!

 Abi oh.Its so so sad though.I Sympathize with families who lost loved ones and the school.I still cant figure out why the shooter acted dt way.Why didnt someone call the police immediately?I hope the letter they found gives them a clue.Am so so scared to go to school now cos u neva can tell.Everyone gat to be on d lookout for quiet students.I hope no Nairalander goes to that school?What a loss?

9ja4eva:


  Abi oh.Its so so sad though.I Sympathize with families who lost loved ones and the school.I still can't figure out why the shooter acted dt way.Why didnt someone call the police immediately?I hope the letter they found gives them a clue.Am so so scared to go to school now because u never can tell[b].Everyone got to be on d lookout for quiet students.I hope no Nairalander goes to that school[/b]?What a loss?

No, Nairaland users mostly go to backyard schools like Howard and TSU lol

babyosisi:

No, Nairaland users mostly go to backyard schools like Howard and TSU

if they can afford those

4 Play:

You overestimate the accuracy of the shooting abilities of Nigerian students.Lecturers,innocent students,e.t.c regularly get shot in Naija

Whatever is the motive behind the violence,the consequence of on-campus violence is felt more by the average Nigerian student than by the average American student.I would be more fearful sending my kids to a Nigerian uni than a US uni

Of course we cannot make comparisons between American and Nigerian colleges. That of Nigeria is multifactorial, add poverty and joblessness and you have a recipe for disaster. The Americans dont have that excuse.

babyosisi:

No, Nairaland users mostly go to backyard schools like Howard and TSU lol

i thought most of them were either in highschool, struggling with associate degrees in community colleges or working odd jobs.

depression and bad stress can be dangerous