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September 21, 2007
Delaware State U. Shuts Campus in Wake of Shooting Incident
Delaware State University canceled classes today after an early-morning shooting on the Dover campus left two students wounded and a suspect still at large, according to an announcement on the university’s Web site. The bulletin directed students to remain in their dormitories “until further notice” and told nonessential employees not to come to work. Details of the shooting were sketchy, but according to the alert, the gunman was a man and the victims were a male student and a female student. Colleges and universities have been treating all such incidents very seriously since a shooting rampage by a deranged student last spring at Virginia Tech took 33 lives. Virginia Tech was subsequently accused of not acting promptly after the first deaths to prevent a greater loss of life. —Andrew Mytelka
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This should unleash another round of proposals to make it easier for people to carry concealed weapons on college campuses! When are people going to realize that simply having guns increases the potential that violence against people will occur and that the greater the number of guns, the greater the potential!?
— TDD Sep 21, 03:55 PM #
By far, a most asinine reaction. How about ‘no one’ having guns? I“m in another state and would be willing to bet the perpetrator knew both of the victims.
— Raymond Sep 21, 04:26 PM #
At my university, we are being kept safe by the administration’s mandate that everyone who belongs on campus wear a photo ID.
They don’t seem to have considered the fact that all of the recent school violence has been perpetrated by persons who belonged on campus.
— PJ Sep 21, 06:41 PM #
Quoting Raymond:
“By far, a most asinine reaction. How about ‘no one’ having guns? I“m in another state and would be willing to bet the perpetrator knew both of the victims.”
This in itself is an asinine statement. These so called “Gun Free Zones” that we call school is a disgrace because all we are seeing are campuses full of unarmed victims not able to defend themselves. Any one who advocates for the disarming of law-abiding citizens (and that includes concealed carry) is guilty of treason to the United States of America.
— Josh Sep 22, 07:19 PM #