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pastor1 wrote:Even if it were made legal by our state for all CHL holders to carry within a public school, or even if the administrator of said school were to give the CHL holder permission to carry, this would go against the federal law that makes all public schools "gun free zones".:

The gun free school zones act specifically exempts anyone licensed by the state.

The press coverage just keeps raising more questions:

First off, if there's just been a double murder, wouldn't you at least look around the area fairly carefully to make sure the killer isn't hiding nearby? At least checking accessible areas out to a few minutes' walking distance seems logical.

CNN wrote:"We forced ourselves against the door so he couldn't come in again, because the door would not lock."

I've heard descriptions also of the classroom doors not even having locks, which seems odd; every school I've ever been in had locks on all of the classroom doors if for no other reason than to let the janitors keep people off fresh floor wax.

MSNBC wrote:The man’s two guns, which were bought in Virginia and whose serial numbers had been obliterated,

Then how do they know where they were bought? If the dealer came forward, he will have a record of the SNs.

MSNBC wrote:About 2½ hours later, police responded to a 911 call reporting that shots had been fired at Norris Hall, an engineering classroom building about a half-mile away on the opposite end of the 2,600-acre campus.

By my math, the opposite end of 2,600 acres is going to be a lot more than a half-mile away regardless of the shape. Looking at the map, it's not nearly as dramatic as it sounds in the story; assuming he went straight from the dorm to the classes, (and, IMO, it sounds like he might have even left campus for more ammo in between) it would just mean passing a couple more dorms and the drill field.

MSNBC wrote:Officers forced their way in and followed the sound of gunshots to the second floor, where they found the gunman, who had shot himself in the face.

Convenient that he was still shooting when they got in, but had shot himself by the time they got upstairs.

MSNBC wrote:Noll told NBC affiliate WAVY-TV if Hampton Roads that he was only 70 yards away when two police cars raced up outside the engineering building. “They got out of the car and took their shotguns out and started firing,” he said.

Firing at what? According to the prior quote, the gunman was dead when the first cop laid eyes on him. Were they just dumping ammo into the building that they knew was still full of victims, or what?

(I might have ignored that guy's quote, but the video from http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=143565 sure makes it sound like at least that last shot isn't nearly as muffled as the others...like it was fired from outside)

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0704/ ... h.irpt.jpg

Umm...do I really need to point out what's wrong in this picture? Hint; it wasn't taken by a remote, unmanned camera. At least his finger appears to be well clear of the trigger.

Edited to add:
If the guy's student visa was issued last year, why did the fingerprint check come up empty? Don't they take prints for visas?

Also mentioned on CombatCarry, why would somebody planning on a shooting spree/suicide combo bother to ditch his ID and file the SNs off the guns?

And, it's interesting to note that the caption for that last pic says it was taken at a dorm - no dorms are within scattergun range of the engineering building. Since the officer didn't feel the need to grip the forend, (or even be particularly ready to) but did feel the urgency to have the gun "up" in an unsafe direction, it's probably not a bad assumption that he already had a round chambered.