News: Nut kills over 30 people at college campus. It probably has nothing to do with Americans easy access to guns, culture of glorifying violence, or isolated young people with no sense of community.
From CNN.COM:
CNN) — A lone gunman is dead after police said he killed at least 21 people Monday during twin shootings on the Virginia Tech campus — the worst school shooting incident in U.S. history.
“Some victims were shot in a classroom,” university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said during a news conference in Blacksburg.
Police believe there was only one gunman, Flinchum said.
“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said university President Charles Steger. “The university is shocked and indeed horrified.” (Map of Blacksburg)
The shootings mark the deadliest school shooting incident in U.S. history, topping attacks at Columbine High School in 1999 and at the University of Texas in 1966.
The Associated Press quoted officials saying more than 20 people were wounded. A hospital spokeswoman told AP that 17 Virginia Tech students were being treated for gunshot wounds and other injuries.
Sharon Honaker at the Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in nearby Christiansburg, Virginia, told CNN that four patients had been transported there, one in critical condition.
One person was killed and others were wounded at multiple locations inside a dormitory about 7:15 a.m., Flinchum said. Two hours later, another shooting at Norris Hall, the engineering science and mechanics building, resulted in multiple casualties, the university reported. (Campus map)
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list » News: Nut kills over 30 people at college campus. It probably has … — On 4-16-2007 at 1:20 pm
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restless — On 4-16-2007 at 4:30 pm
Not knowing why the guy did this, I’d add to your header (guns, glorifying violence, isolation) the extreme pressure university (and younger) students are under to succeed or else (in many cases, literally — suicides are way up and this was most certainly a suicide by cop as well as a multiple homicide). Add to that pressure, debt worries from student loans. University sounds fun, doesn’t it?