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Venus Pax wrote:A few of my students asked me today...

Edit: nevermind my question as asked by Scuba

This might be a direction for another topic and if anyone thinks it'd be better I'll take your advice but what do you think should be done about being in this situation where you are locked up in a building and you are allowed to carry. And as it turns out you had to confront the BG or you were in a room with other people and by peeking out the door and seeing the guy down the hall had a chance to give cover fire so that people could run out to a nearby exit behind you. Say everyone gets through and you are running out after them here's the question:

What do you do next so you don't get shot by LEO? I was sitting in class trying to figure that out. Seems like removing the clip and taking the round in the chamber (shouldn't have any rounds left if you were cover firing though) and leave the gun inside? Or would it be better to holster it back and conceal it and as you get outside get on the floor on your stomach with your hands out behind your head and have a cop find it when they search you all the while explaining your status and what just happened?

carlson1 wrote:

flintknapper wrote:Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."campus facilities.

WOW! I wonder what Mr. Hincker has to say today?

To contact Larry Hincker: University Relations, 315 Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0229. Ph - 540-231-5396. Email: hincker@vt.edu.

I am thinking about calling him myself and asking when I get back home. Not for any ill, but to see if it takes 31 of his students being killed for logic to take a twist.

The living on campus <21 thing sort of carries some weight in the sense that had this guy done this 8 hours earlier, the chances of anyone having a handgun on campus would have been a lot smaller then someone being able to have one at 7:15 on campus. Mostly for the reasons stated people coming to class for the day.

I go to UT @ Austin and I just got home and heard about this. Anyone whose familiar with the area knows that during passing period it can be one heck of a time trying to get a car through inner campus. For those that don't imagine streams of people crossing every intersection in every which way blocking traffic completely. Take that situation and add one person in the mix with thousands of people going thousands of different vectors you led yourself into a situation where if something were to go down the students seeking cover wouldn't know which direction was deemed to be safe. I don't know how many people went to UT back in the Whitman shootings but I imagine that number has skyrocketed and having metal detectors ONLY in on the way up to the observatory in the tower leaves me with the desire to be able to carry into any UT building.

My thoughts are with all the families of those that died who had the unfortunate fortune of being able to go to class today to better their future.

And I hope that there won't be a copy cat incident with this =|