Speechless - 22 killed at Virginia Tech

[deckeda]

Worst shooting incident --- campus or not --- in U.S. history.

[incognegro]

My wife's cousin Doug attends there. He's currently in Europe as part of his semester abroad. He's not in engineering, in any case.

We talked with his dad (wife's uncle), just to see how he's doing. It is hard to comprehend such a terrible tragedy.

[Jp!]

A person that works at CNN just passed this along:

My friend in VA is a former EMS, now head of the department, and he sent me this IM on his way out the door......

Him [1:52 PM]: I am on phone now with an ic that was there

Him [1:52 PM]: He is saying they "black tagged" 31 on one floor alone so there will be probably close to 50 if not more DOA....

Him [1:52 PM]: it is gonna be way worse than first reported

[OWC Jamie]

[quote mrbill62]For some reason, the picture of the young woman kneeling & crying out at Kent State (for those of us who are old enough to remember) popped into my head. No political inferences just "WHY?".
I don't think it's possible for anyone over forty five to NOT know what this is:


This is extremely shockingly sad for the same and different reasons.
Senseless.

[Jim Williams]

Not to discount today's horror, but this may well exceed the toll of the Bath Township, MI, school bombing of 1927.

[3d]

[quote billb]I don't think it's possible for anyone over forty five to NOT know what this is:

Ya gotta have ice water running through your veins to have the wherewithal to take a photo like that

[M A V I C]

[quote 3d]Ya gotta have ice water running through your veins to have the wherewithal to take a photo like that
I don't think so. Sometimes when I'm taking hard photos, I'm filled with compassion to capture the moment for those pictured, and to help convey the message to others.

[3d]

[quote M A V I C]I don't think so. Sometimes when I'm taking hard photos, I'm filled with compassion to capture the moment for those pictured, and to help convey the message to others.
Judging from the reaction of the other people in the photo. That person must've just gotten shot 5 seconds before the photo was taken. She looks like she is screaming, bone-chillingly, from the top of her lungs. In that particular situation the photographer chose to stop and stand 10 feet away and start taking photographs of this screaming young woman. He didn't run over to see what happened. He didn't run to get help. He didn't yell for everyone to take cover. He stood there in front of them, composed the photograph and clicked away. That's pretty cold. It's a breath-taking photo though.

But hey... whatever that's just my opinion. Sorry for going off topic.

[Rick-o]

Very tragic. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

And, almost 8 years to the day of the Columbine shootings. (04-20-99)

[MacMagus]

An Asian kid at a geographically isolated school can't adjust to the culture and goes nuts with a gun...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Lo