With at least 22 dead and as many wounded at Virginia Tech, one is naturally tempted to wonder if this be terrorism or the sadly-usual madman-with-a-gun. The former gets a lift from lines like this at FoxNews.com:
"The students and faculty were barricading themselves in their classrooms after what one person described as an Asian student wearing a vest opened fire." (emphasis mine)
We’ll see, of course. Much will also be made of the idea that the school was a gun-free zone, meaning no right-to-carry on the campus. Of course, as Glenn Reynolds notes, that would only be observed by the law-abiding and thereby put all of them at perhaps even greater risk from such as today’s incident.
UPDATE This time the first report was a good one: the killer may be a 24-year-old recent Chinese immigrant on a visa. I’m glad he’s dead so we don’t have to spend months hearing about this pathetic loser’s life.
















My cousin’s oldest grandson is a freshman at VT. I’d appreciate it if you see a list of victims in you searching that you let me know so I can review it. Thanks. Also, I see Mr. Boy is also becoming a “glove man”
They seem to be all engineering students, probably not freshman. I doubt any list would be put out until late tonight or tomorrow. Playing three games back-to-back over the weekend helped stimulate defensive progress by all the Muckdogs.
Just found that my cousin’s grandson is OK. However some of his friends aren’t.