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Multiple shootings at Va Tech

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Jeffcat;821327; said:
true but one in disagreement with that could claim that you would face the possibility of having to protect yourself more often than currently therefore increasing you chance of being killed. also just because somebody has a weapon does not mean they know how to use it which opens up the possibility of accidents, crimes directed towards women and not men, etc.
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I think the point should be that you can only control what YOU do.....individual responsibility and all that.

I don't think the Constitution was written with the thought that the government knows what's best for you individually.

But that's another subject and probably should have it's own thread in the Political forum.
 
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It seems Cho killed himself when police entered the building with guns.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIRGINIA_TECH_SHOOTING?SITE=OHTOL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Apr 25, 7:12 PM EDT


Police: Va. Tech Bloodbath Lasted 9 Min.
By KRISTEN GELINEAU
Associated Press Writer



BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The bloodbath lasted nine minutes - enough time for Seung-Hui Cho to unleash 170 rounds from his two pistols, or about one shot every three seconds.
During that time, Virginia Tech and city police spent three minutes dashing across campus to the scene. Then they began the agonizing process of breaking into the chained-shut building, which took another five minutes.
Once inside, as they sprinted toward the sounds of gunfire inside Norris Hall, Cho put a bullet through his head and died in a classroom alongside his victims.
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Cho didn't get that court ordered treatment - labyrinthine medical system and unclear lines of authority / responsibility blamed.

Wash Post

Cho Didn't Get Court-Ordered Treatment




By Brigid Schulte and Chris L. Jenkins
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 7, 2007; Page A01

Seung Hui Cho never received the treatment ordered by a judge who declared him dangerously mentally ill less than two years before his rampage at Virginia Tech, law enforcement officials said, exposing flaws in Virginia's labyrinthine mental health system, including confusion about the law, spotty enforcement and inadequate funding.
Neither the court, the university nor community services officials followed up on the judge's order, according to dozens of interviews. Cho never got the treatment, according to authorities who have seen his medical files. And although state law says the community services board should have made sure Cho got help, a board official said that was "news to us."

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"The system doesn't work well," said Tom Diggs, executive director of the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, which has been studying the state mental health system and will report to the General Assembly next year.
Involuntary outpatient commitments are relatively uncommon in Virginia, officials said, because those in the system know they are not enforced. They are almost an act of faith.
"When I let the person go outpatient, I always put on the record, 'I hope I don't read about you tomorrow in the paper. . . . Don't make me look like the foolish judge that could have stopped you,' " said Lori Rallison, a special justice in Prince William County. "And knock wood, that hasn't happened. But it can."

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