how does this kid in VT get away with shooting all those people withiut getting overpowered by others?

Question

Even though this kid had a 9mm and a 22cal pistol, it doesn't make sense that in the state of Virgina that he can get away with all that killing without someone trying to get to him to stop him!

Answer 1

He had a gun and no one expected it. He just started shooting before anyone knew he had it. He had people try to stop him, but he shot them. When you are coming face to face with a gun, you never know what you will do until it is you that is the person that is face to face with the person with gun. The person with the finger on the trigger is quicker than you or I on the other side of the gun..............It is a sad thing. I pray for the victims families during their time of grief. I pray for the shooters family as I cannot imagine what they are going through either. I am sure they did not know what their son would do. We cannot put blame anywhere, we need to put prayers right now to the victims families and friends and all who need them.

We can educate those of mental illnesses and what to watch for etc....so this doesn't happen again.

Answer 2

Someone did try to stop him. One of the professors was killed delaying him while others escaped. The tragedy is that the man was a survivor of the Nazi death camps.

The gun lobby is saying that things would have been different if everybody had been armed, but you cannot do much when someone has the drop on you. By the time you get the handgun out the shooter will have sprayed the room with automatic fire and you are likely wounded or dead. Even if you are unwounded, given that handguns are not accurate at more than short range, would you hit the right person in all the confusion?

The only solution is to deny handguns (at least) to all civilians, restricting their use to military and police personnel. This would entail a massive effort to round up all the millions of weapons, followed by an unalterable policy of life sentences for those using them in any crime.

However, in the Excited States of America this would not work, simply because so many of us are insane.

Answer 3

Wow, ill forget what the other guy said since i am asian...
but in any case, shooting that many people with only a 9mm and a .22 isn't that hard. Trust me ill never know yet will i ever try, but dont most law enforcement officers use 9mm? and also he was reported to have multiple clips of ammo, thus suggesting that he was able to shoot off multiple rounds without worry of much retaliation...(volume over the small caliber of the weapons) and in any case it was early and also when a guy has a gun pointed at you the idealogical thing to do is to run,...or is it just me?

Answer 4

Here's a link to and a few paragraphs from an interesting story that I read yesterday:

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Seung-Hui Cho Was a Mind Controlled Assassin
Deadly accuracy, disturbing revelations suggest outside involvement in VA Massacre, cocktail of brainwashing from prozac, violent video games contributed to carnage

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, April 19, 2007


"I'm dumbfounded by the number of people he managed to kill with these weapons," said Mesloh, "The only thing I can figure is that he got close to them and he simply executed them."

Mesloh said the killer performed like a trained professional, "He had a 60% fatality rate with handguns - that's unheard of given 9 millimeters don't kill people instantly," said Mesloh, stating that the handguns Cho used were designed for "plinking at cans," not executing human beings.

Cho was certainly no slouch, in the two hour gap between the first reported shootings and the wider rampage that would occur later in the morning, during which time the University completely failed to warn the students despite having loudspeakers stationed throughout the campus, Cho had time to film a confession video, transfer it to his computer, burn it onto a DVD, package it up, travel to the post office, post the package, and travel back to his dorm room to retrieve his guns and then travel back to the opposite end of the campus to resume the killing spree. The almost inconceivable speed of Cho's actions become more suspicious when we recall initial reports that there were two shooters.

Answer 5

i think of that in case you're an worker of the government which you would be waiting to have weapons, basically for the easy incontrovertible fact that those are people who're the main experienced on assaults like VT. there is incredibly no logical thank you to resign suprising assaults like VT till the secure practices rises at extreme populated aspects, with steel detectors and such. there are maximum of human beings who graduate from the criminal justice branch yet jobs are so limited in that form of important. around my city theres approximately 513 applicants that stick to for one police officer activity. heavily we even have adequate human beings finding for jobs like secure practices that, it would additionally help with greater activity opportunities all around u . s . a .. There are extreme populated aspects that particularly try this, so why can not that grow to be regulation.

Answer 6

People not thinking. People to busy jumping out windows, the only brave one was the teacher. Why didn't some student assist the teacher?

Answer 7

Running away got them killed.
As their backs are turned, they got shot at.
Some were too slow, others immobilized by fear.
I know I would have run away and with my luck, I would have been shot at too.

I resent the insinuation that the victims did nothing to save themselves.

Answer 8

Both of the guns he used were bought legally. I'd ask all the gun nuts out there this question.

Answer 9

HE had a gun man who's going run in front of a gun. But he's in !!! Hell for what he done !!!