**UPDATE**more Boots-on-the-ground info from Jake here
Jake is the local boots on the ground for this story.
Not a lot of details yet, but it sounds like two dead. My thoughts go out to those affected.
Interestingly when I first got wind of this I was reading this article:
No, bringing guns on campus won’t solve the problems of school violence.
-Collin Goddard of the Brady Campaign
Seems the ban on guns on campus doesn’t work either.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/12/08/open-thread-to-discuss-virginia-tech-shooting/
So far looks like the second body was the shooter. Self inflicted.
And instead of being a traffic stop, the guy just walked up to the cop.
I’m sure the Anti’s were salivating today, and will still try to make lemonade.
After all, the Police are the “only ones” they’d never be overtaken by someone without a gun. http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/index.php/2011/05/10/and-then-everything-failed-nsfw-very-violent-graphic/
The antis will do their usual blood-dance, but it hasn’t been effective at all recently. No matter what, people have learned the “Solutions” the antis offer don’t solve the problems they pose to solve.
We’ll see there’s a lot not known. I bet Jake will find out before most do because of his line of work.
I’ve updated with a new post.
I do know a little more than I’ve posted, but a lot of that is “here’s what’s going on in case you need to go into this, but it’s not for public release” type stuff that I can’t talk about. It will take me a while to sort out what more I can say and what I can’t, and I’m unfortunately going to be both distracted and have limited ‘net access for the next couple of days.
@ Jack: I can’t comment on the speculation about the second body, unfortunately, though I will say that the university has hinted heavily that you are correct.
It actually was a traffic stop, but the shooter had nothing to do with it – he walked up as the cop was writing the ticket and just shot him.
And that is the sad thing about this situation… here is a policy which has failed the college not once, but twice, and some people’s response! “We need the exact policy that failed!”
*headdesk*
I am starting to think Colin found the perfect employer, especially since few people would be willing to employ someone that dumb.
Well just look at the Kill The Jews crowd. A huge number of them are unemployable college grads who have meaningless Bachelors or higher degrees in sectors that are interesting, but not exactly useful when it comes to getting jobs, and they’re swimming in college debt, as well as I’m sure credit-card debt looking at their level of restraint.
Colin has a worthless BA in “International Studies”. If he wasn’t pushing lies for the Brady camp he’d be throwing rocks at the cops while stained with his own shit in one of these disgusting camps.