Comments on: VA Tech Attack A Premeditated Act Or Jealous Act Of Rage?

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:41:31 +0000

Who Can We Blame for the Virginia Tech Massacre?…

If we can’t blame Muslims for this tragedy, then who can we blame? Even before the bodies were cold, a number of conservative bloggers already had the answer: liberals….

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:01:11 +0000

There is a part of me that believes the jealous lover gone off his rocker theory but the killing spree seems so well planned not just blind rage. There were these bomb threats the week ago where some suspect it was a test of emergency and police. Could the first two murders be a diversion? Yes. It could be a planned diversion or one that was a convenient diversion. If there were two shooters the second one who may have been planning this all along took the opportunity of the confusion with the first event to go to the other side of the campus and do the planned event.

I heard Shepard Smith on FOX last night saying they were investigating this on both the jealous lover and the terror angles until they find the truth.

By: BarbaraS

BarbaraS — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:53:26 +0000

I heard somewhere that the girl killed at the dorm was the girlfriend’s roommate. The killer then went to the engineering building looking for the girlfriend and her boyfriend. The girl who was killed probably told the killer her roommate was in class and he, knowing what class she was in, went there.

That is so sad about that young man in the above post. He sounds like someone we can ill afford to lose. All these young people will be mourned and missed. Such a senseless tragedy.

I wonder if the iller killed all those people to cover up the real murder he planned, the girlfriend and her new boyfriend, and did not plan to kill himself but was left with no choice when the police came.
It was best he killed himself. Just think of all the trials and appeals that the families of the victims would have to go through.

By: MerlinOS2

MerlinOS2 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:01:56 +0000

It is nice to catch the meme of “love lost” but the important point her is to examine it without bias. When the facts settle do no take a preconceived notion into the consideration.

Simple explanations are generally the worst of assumptions.

Let’s work from that starting point.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:09:02 +0000

The shooter apparently bought the weapons legally at a local gun store. He also gives indication that whatever his plan was, at some point he had planned on surviving because he reportedly took the trouble to file the serial numbers off the weapons. That means he was trying to prevent the weapons being traced back to him. If he had intended to kill himself all along, he wouldn’t need to do that.

My instincts say he wanted to kill the girl but somehow his plan got screwed up or he lost his cool and shot her in the dorm. There were apparently witnesses, he could not hide his identity at that point. I would guess that he then decided “what the hell” and went on that rampage knowing he was as good as dead anyway.

By: SallyVee

SallyVee — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:24:13 +0000

Behold the face of the first named soul murdered today. What a beautiful kid. Now it begins to hit home:

http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2007-04-16-0021.html

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:12:39 +0000

It is hard to believe how long ago that has been. And think of how many people there would have been on the scene who had military training. That was the time of the draft.

By: Macsmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense

Macsmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:50:52 +0000

Massacre at VA Tech…

Just got in, and this is awful:
“April 16, 2007â€” At least 29 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass shooting in modern American history â€” and the death toll may rise.Police at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va., said that the shooting…

By: retire05

retire05 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:50:47 +0000

Terrye, one of the police officers was a rookie. And one police officer was killed trying to get Whitman. One of the APD wound up with post tramaic stress syndrome and became a drunk and a bum. He finally got help through the VA.
Yes, Whitman suffered from a brain tumor.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:38:24 +0000

Retire:

A rookie cop killed that man if I remember correctly and no one really knew what happened to make his snap. He had a brain tumor but that might or might not have been the cause.

By: retire05

retire05 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:27:23 +0000

I know in this day and age we are always looking for the motive and the first thing that comes to mind is terrorism. But this case is not much different (except in the casualties) than the University of Texas sniper case.
Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother and then loaded his vehicle with firepower, drove to the University of Texas, climbed the tower stairs and proceeded to shoot 45 people killing 15.
Here is the major difference; while Whitman had a vantage point from the tower, he still had to expose himself to fire. Normal citizens pulled their deer rifles from their trucks and started firing at him every time he stuck his head up. This gave the police, and one private citizen, the time to cross the mall, climb the tower stairs and take him out.
Was Whitman a terrorist? In my book, yes. He terrorized a whole city and destroyed the innocence of a small, sleepy Texas college town.
It will take years for people to recover from this. And all we can do is pray for the families of those who have been harmed by this event. The university will never be the same.
And while I am reluctant to agree with Crosspatch, yes, we need to teach our children to fight back.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:19:40 +0000

If the guy was a student from China, his reason for going back to the campus makes sense too. It would have been about the only place he knew. Maybe he didn’t know who the new boyfriend was but knew she had met him in one of her classes that was in that building, or maybe that was just an easy building to hit. I don’t think it is part of any organized terrorism scheme, I think it is someone who went off their rocker and started killing people.

I am with Terrye on this one.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:57:13 +0000

The Bath School disaster was worse than this. 45 children were killed when a pissed of member of the school board blew the school up. No terrrorism, just evil.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:51:29 +0000

BTW, a guy could hide a lot in a back pack. Chains, guns…all kinds of things.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:50:32 +0000

There have been many cases of obsessive and spurned lovers killing not only the people who left them, but several other people as well. Quite often these kinds of crimes are very well planned out. The fact that he killed himself is not unusual. After all, after he killed the girl and her friend, what were the chances he was going to end up anywhere but prison for life.

This way he gets to blame her. He probably died thinking it was all her fault.