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4/23/2007 | Education, Gun Control
Va. Tech Students Return to Campus
Time
(BLACKSBURG, Va.) — Still grieving and increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their beleaguered campus Sunday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence. The scene on campus resembled move-in day in late summer, with parents helping their children carry suitcases into dormitories. There were tears and hugs goodbye. But instead of excitement for the year ahead, there was simply determination to endure and regroup in the fall.
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights InstituteLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCTodd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the MasterJames Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of CommerceColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USALowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesHarold Naylor, Co-Founder, DiscoverChristianSchools.comPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumTony Strickland, Taxpayer AdvocateLorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources ProjectCharl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"4/21/2007 | Gun Control
Poll: Tragedy Hasn't Changed Views On Guns
CBS News
(AP) The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found. Women and minorities are far likelier than men and whites to view gun violence as a major problem, to worry about being shot, and to want stricter firearms laws, said the survey, which was taken after the killings.
4/21/2007 | Gun Control
Man Kills Hostage, Self at NASA Building
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - A NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said. A second hostage escaped with minor injuries. The gunman was able to take a snub-nosed revolver past NASA security and barricade himself in the building, which houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle, authorities said. NASA and police identified him as 60-year-old William Phillips. He had apparently had a dispute with the slain hostage, police said.
4/20/2007 | Gun Control
Gunman Barricaded Inside NASA Building
ABC News
April 20, 2007— Houston police say that a white male who had barricaded himself with a weapon inside Building 44 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, killed himself and one other hostage. A female hostage was also discovered duct taped at the scene, she is receiving medical attention, but is believed to be alright. ABC News local affiliate KTRK repors that the suspect is 60-year old William Phillips Jr.
4/20/2007 | Gun Control
Common Ground on Gun Control?
Time
The revelation that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed. The first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from the advocacy of civil libertarians who had worked to give mental health patients a say in their treatment.
4/19/2007 | Gun Control, Terrorism
Gunman Sends NBC Final Message
Time
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on "NBC Nightly News." "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
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Threats Rattle Schools in 10 States
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in at least 10 states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people. Threats in Louisiana, Montana and Washington state directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan. In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.
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Zakariah Anani, Shoebat FoundationJoel Anderson, Assemblyman, California State AssemblyWard Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights InstituteLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCMajor Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyTodd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the MasterPaul "Dave" Gaubatz, Owner-Director, Wahhabi CT PublicationsJames Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of CommerceColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USALowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryJan Markell, President, Olive Tree MinistriesAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesHarold Naylor, Co-Founder, DiscoverChristianSchools.comKamal Saleem, Shoebat FoundationPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumWalid Shoebat, President, Shoebat FoundationTony Strickland, Taxpayer AdvocateLorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources ProjectCharl Van Wyk, Pastor/Author, “Shooting Back–The Right & Duty of Self-Defence"Timothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions4/18/2007 | Education, Gun Control
Shooter showed 'big warning signs,' students say
CNN.com
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Cho Seung-Hui exhibited warning signs long before his deadly shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus, fellow students and professors said. As disturbing details emerged about the resident alien from South Korea, students gathered by the thousands in the heart of their campus Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil. Meanwhile, one professor recalled being so concerned about Cho's anger that she took him out of another instructor's creative writing class and taught him one-on-one. The former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English department, Lucinda Roy, said the anger Cho expressed in the fall 2005 course was palpable if not explicit.
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Who Was the Virginia Gunman?
Time
The day of terror at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg began at about 7:15 a.m., with the shooting of a woman and a male resident adviser on the fourth floor of a dorm building on campus. Kristen Bensley, a freshman who lived below the floor where the shooting occurred, told TIME, "There were rumors going on about [the assailant] was fighting with his girlfriend or something of that nature." Bensley notes that only residents can get into the building, using a specific "passport," that is, a card that one has to swipe in order to open doors before 10 a.m. If he was an outsider, someone would have had to let him in. Or more likely, he was a resident of the dorm himself. If so, how did he keep so much ammunition unnoticed? Two weapons have reportedly been recovered, one 22 caliber, the other a 9 mm.
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After the VA Tech Tragedy, U.S. Colleges Question How They Cope With Crisis
ABC News
April 17, 2007 — After the massacre at Virginia Tech University — the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history — university officials across the country are looking at their security policies to see if they could handle a crisis of epic proportions. Not all are certain their schools could cope.
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Campus Massacre: 32 Dead in Virginia
World Net Daily
In what already is the nation's worst campus shooting, a man identified as a young American male killed at least 32 people and injured more than 20 at Virginia Tech today. The gunman reportedly killed himself. An injured student told MSNBC the shooter was a college-aged Asian with a maroon hat and black leather jacket.
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Fenty, Groups Rally Against Court Ruling
Washington Post
Standing before about three dozen students and young adults, Ron Moten, the co-founder of the advocacy group Peaceoholics, painted a grim picture yesterday to illustrate why he hopes to save the District ban on handguns. Moten, speaking from the steps of the John A. Wilson Building, gestured to the young people, many of whom have been affected by gun violence. Any of them could be a victim in the future, he said