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- Paint Virginia Blue? Obama’s Trying.
  Posted by Jeff from Newsweek
  He could've picked Ohio. Or Florida. Or any one of the dozen or so traditional swing states that have decided American presidential elections since the dawn of time (or at least 1992). But for his first official stop on the trail to November, newly minted Democratic nominee Barack Obama visited a place last week that hasn't voted for a dreaded Democrat since the slightly more Southern Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas triumphed there in 1964. The special state? Virginia.
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- I Believe In The Right To Own Firearms Despite Virginia Tech Tragedy
  Posted by Orato
  If everyone owned and was trained to use a gun, we wouldn’t have any problems. A lot of the gun deaths are accidental because people aren't following proper safety procedures. Would Cho have gone into those classrooms if he’d felt someone else had a firearm? In Florida, when they first enacted their concealed carry permits, their overall crime rate dropped. But the crime rate against tourists increased because the criminals knew the tourists didn’t have a firearm.
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- The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”
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- 'Wash Post' Reveals: Virginia Tech Killer Bought First Gun Online
  Posted by Jeff from Editor and Publisher
  "Dowdy said he cannot be sure that Cho purchased the gun online but that is the most likely explanation for why another vendor would have sent it to the pawnshop for Cho. "Both transactions were legal. Unlike some other states, Virginia has no waiting period before purchasing a handgun; nor does it require registration."
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- The Virginia Tech massacre-- social roots of another American tragedy
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  A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s.
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- Gunman Kills 32 on Virginia Tech Campus -- College Paper Covers It
  Posted by Jeff from Editor and Publisher
  Here is how the student-run Collegiate Times reported it, blog-style, with the most recent posting first. A full article is now posted there, which includes the note that police "are also investigating if it has any relation to the recent bomb threats on Tech's campus."
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- Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 22, but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.
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Mahatma comments on:
Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

This Patriot’s Day massacre gives all of us pause. At height of the war in Yugoslavia the day of the most intense bombing is four days from today – April 20th. The same day when two kids went bowling in the morning and by early afternoon executed themselves, a teacher and their classmates in Littleton, CO (1999).
What has a westernized, violence-glorifying culture achieved with its latest record-setting carnage? More cause for denial, it appears. No, it definitely was not another white guy losing it in public with weapons of his choice. No, this culture, which extols the values of raiders, is not in decline and the least fulfilling one for most of its citizens than any other industrialized country.

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9:30 pm 4/16/07
Damianmann comments on:
Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

Guns are far too easy to get.

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4:34 pm 4/16/07
Jeff comments on:
Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

Update, 31 people have been identified killed.

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11:52 am 4/16/07
Jeff comments on:
Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

Is 22 dead enough people to protect unarmed civilians from uncontrolled gun owners? Just because we choose not to own guns doesn’t mean we should continue to be shot down by those who can so easily get guns without even having to register.

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11:04 am 4/16/07

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