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[This is a copy of my initial reaction to the media coverage of the VTech shooting, posted on my Wordpress blog. Unfortunately both links are now defunct - I wish I had saved a page of the "godblessvtech" blog, because it was to me a poignant…

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Apr 16, 2007
We are simply heartbroken by the deaths and injuries suffered at Virginia Tech. We know what an unspeakable, life-changing moment this is for these families and how, in this moment, it is hard to feel anything but overwhelming grief,…

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Topics like these are always hard to approach. For some, the event holds particular weight, either because of their relationship with the victims, with the assailant, with the location where it takes place, or because of the…

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Apr. 18th, 2007 at 12:02 AM

Virginia is, if memory serves, one of the states that had a particularly malevolently horrible 2004 national election, one marked by substantial Republican chicanery and vicious suppression of the minority vote, so the…

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Dr. Roger Passman
April 18, 2007
Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre…

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Photo of a Candlelight Vigil that was held on Pittsburgh University, Monday April 23, 2007, just a week after the tragedy on Virginia Tech campus.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/radder86/472534895/

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Photo of a Candlelight Vigil that was held on Pittsburgh University, Monday April 23, 2007, just a week after the tragedy on Virginia Tech campus.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/radder86/472520523/

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Students gather in Holden Hall during the massacre at Virginia Tech

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Why must we pay the price
For others sins and vice?
As I lay dying here, I cry.
I wonder, Why, why, why?
~Joseph M. Skipsey, April 23rd, 2007

Of Shooters and Schools

Can video games make kids more violent? A new study employing…

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by SamiSunshine

That is a prime example of colleges not looking into the right cases and not checking up on people. Once Cho started to stalk people, he should have been expelled. They seem to spend more time fighting underage drinking than sexual…

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Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find...
Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be…

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On a sunny warm morning on September 17, 1996, a young woman with a long history of mental health problems walked onto the Penn State campus, sat down under a tree on one of the most popular lawns on campus, took a…

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We know not your name
We know not your height
Nor your weight
Nor your burdens
The things that brand you

We know not the reason
We know not the thoughts
Nor the sorrow
Nor the regret
The things that brand you

We know not who…

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Today was by far the most trying day I've experienced in my life. On April 16, 2007 33 people were killed, with 15 more wounded on the Virginia Tech Campus. I know that this is likely not new information, but I repeat it just to add strength to…

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Experimental black and white comics on Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech gunman.

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Original submitted to deviantart.com on April 28, 2007: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54219309/

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Experimental black and white comics on Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech gunman.

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Original submitted to deviantart.com on April 23, 2007: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53830744/

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Experimental black and white comics on Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech gunman.

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Original submitted to deviantart.com on April 24, 2007: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53908783/

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Ask yourself...

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Original submitted to deviantart.com on April 20, 2007: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53664372/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5.

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I woke up today

This mirror doesn't reflect me
No one that I know of
Has time passed so quickly?
Did you give the final shove?

Save us from evil
Save us from evil

Is this what I've become?
A heart left untouched
My wounds have…

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Tom DeLay
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…

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