Monday, April 16, 2007

Virginia Tech Update

The victim toll is now at 32, with more critically wounded. The killer apparently fought with a girlfriend or ex-girlfriend, and when a dorm adviser intervened, he shot them both. More than two hours passed before the university warned students that a double-murderer was on the loose -- and by then, the much-deadlier shooting spree was already over.

During the later murders, the killer apparently lined his victims up and then shot them execution-style. Let's learn from this and from 9/11 ... both cases when people did what they've "always been told to do" -- don't resist, don't aggitate.

To hell with that. If you're ever in that situation, where you are superior in numbers, the unspoken command should be, "Charge!" A few, no doubt, will die, but in doing so, the others will subdue (or beat to death, we're fine with that, too) the offender.

Better yet, Virginia is a right-to-carry state -- although we've been told that Virginia Tech refused students their constitutional right to protect themselves. If, just maybe, it hadn't ...

NOTE: Odd, but Blogger doesn't seem to be allowing us to update the previous entry. So if this appears twice, our apologies.


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