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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Lennyjoe on September 28, 2010, 11:50:23 AM
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New developments here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/28/police-search-gunman-inside-university-texas-library-austin/
A university spokeswoman said police received reports at approximately 8 a.m. of an armed suspect inside the school's Perry Castaneda Library
Not good. We drove by there Sunday.
I will never understand the mentallity of walking into a populated area and shooting people at random and then killing oneself. Makes no sense to me.
Me and the wife were just talking about that on Sunday while driving 2260 miles back to Arizona. I would rather that the individual just go out to the field and off him/her self instead.
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Latest news now, some 4 or 5 hours after the shooting, is that:
* Witnesseses saw a black-clad man with a ski mask and "an AK47" enter the library. Reports of "shots fired" came in at about 8:25 AM.
* Around 9:10 AM police reported that the perp had shot himself on the 6th floor of the library. Police were checking for a possible second shooter.
* No second shooter or victims were found, "All Clear" signal was given about 11:45 AM.
So the current reports are that it ended well - nobody dead or injured but the perp, which is how these things OUGHT to end. Let's hope no bad news (i.e., additional victims) comes along.
(As an aside, I wonder if the perp was on some sort of prescription meds . . . they usually are in these cases.)
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best possible result, barring the guy surrendering unhurt
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i'd say his death is better than his surrender.
Pours some chlorine in the gene pool
Luckily, the campus' prohibition against guns kept something bad from happeni--
Oh, wait.
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best possible result, barring the guy surrendering unhurt
Even better than that. Now the citizens of Texas don't have to spend millions of dollars trying, convicting, and keeping this guy alive in prison for the next few decades.
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Even better than that. Now the citizens of Texas don't have to spend millions of dollars trying, convicting, and keeping this guy alive in prison for the next few decades.
I think our track record has improved for death penalty cases. I don't think it has been taking multiple decades.
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UT-Austin, again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
Glad to read that no innocents were killed this time.
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That's the way to do it - shoot yourself first and then shoot all the other people :laugh:
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Hope he didn't get blood and brains and ruptured eyeball goo all over the books.
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That's the way to do it - shoot yourself first and then shoot all the other people :laugh:
Best way to do it.....
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Local news is carrying a story about how a "campus carry" bill may get moving in the legislature again. (It passed the TX senate last year, but never came to a vote in the TX house. Thank you, Texas GOP.)
Predictably, the school administration, the student union, and a grad student group are opposed. :mad:
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Predictably, the school administration, the student union, and a grad student group are opposed. :mad:
'Cause if that bill passes, people might bring guns on campus.
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'Cause if that bill passes, people might bring guns on campus.
That's what folks always claim, but since it only allows concealed carry (like the rest of Texas) how would you know?
stay safe.
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Update: Local news is reporting this morning that Dr. John Lott was scheduled to give a talk on campus yesterday about the virtues of concealed carry. It got moved to " . . . a local bookstore . . . " because of the disruption caused by the suicidal shooter, but they aired part of an interview with him that was quite reasonable.
Predictably, they also interviewed some kid - the head of a campus anti-gun group? - who said that having more people on campus with guns would be bad because dozens of people would have been killed in the crossfire, and the police wouldn't know who the good guys and bad guys were. ;/
Of course, the news media & various bureaucrats are heaping high praise on the police for how they handled everything and are giving them credit for "protecting" everyone else. (Wonder if they'd be saying the same if the shooter had mass murder on his mind, rather than merely suicide.)
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From the news: The gunman is identified as Colton Tooley, he was allegedly in a business suit and ski mask.
He was a sophomore majoring in math focusing on actuarial sciences. Let the jokes begin.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-fired-university-texas-austin-cops-hunt-gunman/story?id=11744405
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Please hit this poll
http://www.myfoxhouston.com//generic/news/fox-in-focus
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So the cops wouldn't pay particular attention to a guy wearing a ski mask and holding a gun? Who's the police chief in Austin, Stevie Wonder?
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From the news: The gunman is identified as Colton Tooley, he was allegedly in a business suit and ski mask...
Let the jokes begin.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-fired-university-texas-austin-cops-hunt-gunman/story?id=11744405
Okay, then.
A picture of the gunman:
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi360.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo42%2FALatchley%2Fspy.jpg&hash=886203d17daf468b3c3c48007621f36981041f99)
And from the article:
Police confirmed Tooley was carrying an AK-47, a military-grade combat rifle.
A military-grade WASR?
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And from the article:A military-grade WASR?
Hey, if it has a long curvy banana-magazine, it's military GRADE. [tinfoil]
Maybe "military grade" is newspeak for assault rifle .... .....
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'Cause if that bill passes, people might bring guns on campus.
That's what folks always claim, but since it only allows concealed carry (like the rest of Texas) how would you know?
You'll know when they start carrying military-grade combat rifles, and then shoot themselves. Hey, wait a minute...
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Article written by a UT Professor. I found the link on another forum. One of the comments there was, "What would the author's response be if someone replaced 'AK-47' in the second to last paragraph with 'Prius' ". The fastest response team in the world couldn't have gotten there before the Prius madman had run over dozens of students.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/palaima-u-s-gun-laws-allow-normal-day-942601.html