Virginia Tech Shootings
Thirty-two are dead so far at Virginia Tech after today's shooting rampage by an as yet unidentified gunman. Kids, just kids, who were there to try and get an education. So far there is no breakdown between students and faculty deaths. This is being reported as the largest mass shooting incident ever in this country. If you do a Google search on "school shootings" you will find a time line of school shooting incidents since 1996. I ran the numbers and there have been 67 killed and 111 wounded since February, 1996. That doesn't count today's toll in Blacksburg.
The TV talking heads are already taking the aftermath reporting into the realm of the question of gun control and and going after the Virginia Tech officials about what they did or did not do. It's a natural enough part of the reporting I suppose but it seems a lot like hair trigger head hunting to me to be doing it so quickly while the authorities are still trying to sort out what happened. I wonder how many lawyers are out there training their cross hairs on the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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