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Don't Conceal This Debate
Former Tennessee Senator and potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson had a very interesting article in the National Review on April 20th entitled, "Signs of Intelligence?" which dealt with concealed carry laws on the Virginia Tech…
Tags: blog, commentary, delay, gun laws, second ammendment
Now You Have Blood On Your Hands That Will Never Come Off
Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech, has completed his transformation from Clark Kent to, well, Rambo. Having killed and maimed over thirty people, in a calculated and merciless way,…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, nbc
Student Use of Technology During Virginia Tech Tragedy
As the Virginia Tech tragedy unfolded students used a familiar the technology to keep connected with the events, friends, and families: Facebook.
Using laptops…
Tags: blog, commentary, communications, rss, technology, web 20
the virginia tech massacre in the media: sermons and loners
Listening to the Virginia Memorial, and all I hear is: "God-given", "God bless you", "community", "strength", "prayers", "family", "sanctuary", "violated', and of course, here come the leaders of the religious…
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The Virginia Tech Shootings: A Case for Redundant Communications
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Campus police at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., on April 17 identified the perpetrator of the shooting rampage on campus a day earlier as South Korean English…
Virginia Tech
I first saw Blacksburg, and what was then V.P.I., almost fifty years ago, the summer of 1960. A member of my high school's chapter of the Future Farmers of America, I was attending the FFA's Virginia state…
Tags: alumni, blacksburg, blog, commentary
Virginia Tech Massacre: Crucial Next Steps
Horror is the natural first reaction. It is hard to get beyond tumultuous emotions given the stories, scenes, and sheer numbers coming out of the massacre today at Virginia Tech. The facebook has emerged from a period as a nascent form…
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A Difficult Time
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Asian Identity of Virginia Tech Gunman
By now, I’m sure everybody has heard of the tragedy that took place yesterday, Monday April 16, at Virginia Tech University. Words cannot adequately convey the profound shock and sadness that I feel about this…
Tags: asian, asian american, blog, cho, reaction
Beyond Words
I am honestly at a loss for what to say about the events that unfolded on the Virginia Tech campus this morning. I was walking across the Drillfield towards GBJ when firing broke out in Norris hall. I had heard nothing…
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Blacksburg
This past weekend was the middle weekend of April. That's the time universities put on dog-and-pony shows for students who have been admitted, to help them make up their minds.
My daughter has been…
Tags: blog, campus visit, orientation, parent
Blacksburg, violence, and America
I have been on the sidelines of quite a number of handgun deaths in my life. Thank God, I haven't really been in the crossfire, nor has any member of my family. But gun violence has come close enough to me…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, reaction
Blame Game and The Ghosts of Waco
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre." - Kurt Vonnegut
I don't really want to write this blog. I wanted to just take a few days off and give condolences…
Tags: blog, commentary, media, violence, waco
Cho Seung-Hui: A Lone Deranged Gunman?
As all of America mourns the deaths which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, bloggers are drawing comparisons to the body count that issues daily from Iraq. See a particularly poignant post from Floyd Rudmin of…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, mental health, mental illness
Coding Gun Control
A report in today's New York Times illustrates both the promise and the difficulties of (legal) code as (software) code (U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun).…
Tags: blog, law, mental illness
Confessions of a Would-Be School Shooter
Tags: blog, cho, confession
Could the Virginia Tech shooting been avoided?
May 06, 2007
In light of recent events this just gets added to the list of school shootings that have taken place over the last 5+ years and what seems to be motive is identical the perpetrators are young white males under the…
Tags: blog, commentary, dorm, ra
Death in America, an ode to siblings
It was a crisp, clear, bright autumn day, the kind of day you drink in with every essence of your being. I was sleepy, woken early by my parents for the drive from Nashville to Blacksburg. But I was excited. Not only were we…
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