Virginia Tech
Posted at 5:48pm on Apr. 22, 2007 Parents, if you value your children, don't send them to George Washington University
By Jeff Emanuel
Appearing on Fox News Sunday today in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, GWU president Steve Trachtenberg "boasted that at GWU, not only are the faculty and students disarmed, but so are the campus security officers."
You know, of course, what this means: should there (God forbid) be a similar event at GWU as there was last Monday at VT, the powers-that-be would be powerless to act - and the only way to end the loss of life would be for the murderer to fire away until he runs out of ammo.
Comforting?
Posted at 3:12pm on Apr. 18, 2007 "Say it ain't so, Joe!"
Or, "When murdered people are like baby elephants, and other similarly appalling comparisons"
By Jeff Emanuel
ESPN baseball analyst Joe Morgan made what is, in my opinion, an absolutely egregious faux pas while a guest on yesterday's edition of the Dan Patrick show on ESPN Radio. Asked what he thought about the Virginia Tech massacre, Morgan said:
I was sitting there yesterday, and to be honest with you, I was equating it a little bit to the Imus thing; here are kids going to school, not bothering anybody, trying to, you know, make something of themselves, trying to be better, and this is what they're subjected to. I mean, the kids who are still at that school, how are they going to handle this?
He went on to lament that, since this did not take place during football or basketball season, then "everyone that's involved, that was touched by it directly, they pretty much have to deal with it by themselves."
Are you kidding, Joe?
Read on . . .
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Posted at 1:19am on Apr. 18, 2007 One morning in April...
What is man to do, when the wheels come off the world?
By Jeff Emanuel
The morning of April 16 began like almost any other on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, also known as Virginia Tech. Students got up, went to breakfast, went to class, or went out for the day, blissfully unaware of the fact that, within mere hours, the worst tragedy ever to strike an American institute of higher education would take place on those very grounds, with the slaughter of 33 individuals by a single murderous student.
Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old resident alien from South Korea who had lived in the United States for nearly fifteen years, apparently awoke on Monday morning with one singular purpose in mind: to murder as many of his fellow students as he could, before taking his own life. His killing spree began in a dormitory, where, at 7:15 am, he gunned down an 18-year-old girl and a 22-year-old young man. Two hours later, Mr. Cho crossed the campus, entered an engineering building, chained the doors shut from the inside, and proceeded to empty clip after clip of 9mm and .22-caliber ammunition into the crowded classrooms, firing through doors, lining students up against the wall and executing them one by one, and aiming for anybody he could find in the hallways or in the rooms. Students were reduced to barricading doors with desks, playing dead, and even jumping out of third-and-fourth-story windows to escape the scene of massive carnage, which saw over sixty people injured and, when all was said and done, over thirty dead, including the killer himself.
Read on.
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