So I just survived a school shooting...
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I was going to ask where did he get an AK-47 but the OP's edit already said he doesn't know so my next question is, why an AK-47 when a handgun would've been much easier? Ok, if you want to commit suicide, and want to be sure you die, a bigger bullet is better but seriously, an assult rifle is a little overkill for that.
Strangely enough I've kind of been in a similar situation. My old school is like the biggest in London and in a rather awful part of East London. We had a criminal run into our school once with a gun. Thankfully it was like 5 minutes after lessons had started so only a few kids were still out of class and they legged it to the technology rooms. But it was a pretty tense situation and I was in ICT at the time with a teacher who seemed more anxious than we were. Mainly coz we were some of the lucky students who just got to sit on the internet for a few hours 
But it's weird to bring in an AK...Unless he was going to kill other people but instead just killed him. :S
But it's weird to bring in an AK...Unless he was going to kill other people but instead just killed him. :S
Yeah, it was a weird morning here. I was in Welch (to any fellow Longhorns reading this) at the end of my first class when a random professor walked in and informed us that a guy shot into the air several times, went into PCL (the largest library on campus) and killed himself. Turned out that was the most accurate information anybody provided for the next two hours. We were informed that we were to stay in the room, until my prof got bored and dismissed us to our offices (it was a grad course). Welch was under lockdown, and we weren't allowed to leave for an hour. We then had to exit with our hands raised, as the SWAT team was still looking for the second shooter, who turned out to not exist. We walked north, then had to enter another building for shelter. That was another two hours. By that time the local news teams had finally caught up with everything and reported that the suspect (turned out to be a sophomore math major, just fyi) did not injure anybody, was chased into PCL where he shot himself.
It was uncanny really; misinformation spreads fastest in panicked situation, and people spread rumors of hostages and several deaths (mainly on twitter), but nobody was actually worried after ~10am (shooting happened just before 9am).
Ultimately this wasn't a tragedy. You had an idiot who shot an assault rifle several times, was corned by the police, and killed himself. He was more of an inconvenience than a threat, though I'm glad he turned out to be such a cowardly failure. A university with ~50,000 students will inevitably harbor the stupid sort, and these things could end very badly, as with Virginia Tech.
It was uncanny really; misinformation spreads fastest in panicked situation, and people spread rumors of hostages and several deaths (mainly on twitter), but nobody was actually worried after ~10am (shooting happened just before 9am).
Ultimately this wasn't a tragedy. You had an idiot who shot an assault rifle several times, was corned by the police, and killed himself. He was more of an inconvenience than a threat, though I'm glad he turned out to be such a cowardly failure. A university with ~50,000 students will inevitably harbor the stupid sort, and these things could end very badly, as with Virginia Tech.
Back in Middle School, there was this bank down the street that had a hostage situation. Upon hearing this, the school was under lock down. The teacher in my classroom turned off the lights, put some cover over the door window, and told us to hide under our desks. I was stuck in my classroom for at least an hour. Eventually though, we were let out of the classroom, but we had to stick together as we walked to the parking lot where our parents were there to pick us up.
No one in the school got hurt, although I don't remember what happened to the people in that bank...
No one in the school got hurt, although I don't remember what happened to the people in that bank...
Wow, a lot of schools got bomb threats, my own notwithstanding.
On the very last fucking day of middle school some years ago, someone had to be a turd in the punch bowl and call up the school to say there's a bomb inside. We stood out in the lawn for hours while the bomb squad came and very thoroughly inspected campus grounds. It was obviously by a student who thought he was funny, but procedure is procedure, and you don't want to be the school that let 50 kids die because you thought the warning beforehand was a prank.
On the very last fucking day of middle school some years ago, someone had to be a turd in the punch bowl and call up the school to say there's a bomb inside. We stood out in the lawn for hours while the bomb squad came and very thoroughly inspected campus grounds. It was obviously by a student who thought he was funny, but procedure is procedure, and you don't want to be the school that let 50 kids die because you thought the warning beforehand was a prank.
Ya, in my class in 9th grade a chick shot herself, and the class is full of idiots so they all over reacted and were really loud and senseless, I calmed a few people down and then left the room because 1) There was blood on the room and I didn't want to catch anything 2) Everyone was to thick to calm down.
There was a bomb warning and an armed assailant warning at U.S.F. last year. Apparently some guy had shouted that he had a bomb on the bus after a bomb threat that morning. He was lying, but the bomb squad blew up his backpack, which contained his new laptop. Serves that asshole right. The other thing was a report of a man wearing a stetson, carrying a hunting knife and a puppy. That's the closest thing I've ever experienced to a school shooting.
P.S. Don't blame guns, blame the crazy ************ that decided to shoot himself.
P.S. Don't blame guns, blame the crazy ************ that decided to shoot himself.
You live in america, thats how he got an AK47, your gun laws are practicly non existant, especially for the rich(my buddy went to this guys mansion(on like a 200 acre property) in Oregon, name a gun, he has it, he also has a fully functional APC tank. Second amendment rights, I see the damage that stuff does across the pond in Detroit, even in better economic times.
In Canada, you can't get automatic weapons legaly. According to my gun class instructor(most likely biased) there has been no crime commited with automatic weapons since the 1970's(probably a lie but I can't remember the last time one happened in canada). Still, suicide by guns is still the best way to kill yourself(single shot guns in Canada are not hard to get but just expensive(1100$ for a glock), especially for handguns), as to why he did it, read the suicide note.
In Canada, you can't get automatic weapons legaly. According to my gun class instructor(most likely biased) there has been no crime commited with automatic weapons since the 1970's(probably a lie but I can't remember the last time one happened in canada). Still, suicide by guns is still the best way to kill yourself(single shot guns in Canada are not hard to get but just expensive(1100$ for a glock), especially for handguns), as to why he did it, read the suicide note.
Just saw the story on fox news, did he really shoot everywhere or did he just do one shot to himself?
He shot around a bit; the cops said at least four rounds, but he wasn't aiming at anybody. Some students called the police, who chased him into PCL, where he ended up killing himself. I actually couldn't believe that he really used an AK-47 when a professor informed us that we had to remain inside the building.samster284 said:
Ok, I was about to be serious disappoint at my favorite news network D:thethingthatlurks said:
When I was a senior in high school, a smaller underclassman came to a popular school-hosted weekend event with his dad's .38, intent on shooting another underclassman who had been bullying him all year.
The short of it is the small kid was a shy kind of guy, a bit troubled, with access to a gun, but not normally outwardly violent. The bully was the youngest of a dynasty of big Pacific Islander brothers, who had all been stars on the football team. His older brothers were some of the coolest people I'd ever known, but the youngest was just plain dickish, riding their celebrity, so to speak. His brothers could barely tolerate him. He was a mean jock with a violent streak who picked on littler kids.
Myself and another friend talked the kid into just going home after he showed us the piece. I'm a pretty good moderator, but I know I lucked out having my friend with me that day, who was one of the best bullshitters I've ever encountered. Between the two of us we helped prevent God-knows-what kind of badness.
On the one hand, I believe the kid wanted our help. That's why he showed us the gun and told us his plan. On the other hand, when you're that close to somebody that on the edge, and he's holding an actual gun with actual bullets in it, it is scary, period. You can feel the weight of the gun just looking at it. You can feel its potential to do harm.
It never made the papers or anything. We let the kid leave, then told somebody about it. He was off to another school after that. As far as I know, the bully lived to bully on, and may even still be bullying people to this day.
The short of it is the small kid was a shy kind of guy, a bit troubled, with access to a gun, but not normally outwardly violent. The bully was the youngest of a dynasty of big Pacific Islander brothers, who had all been stars on the football team. His older brothers were some of the coolest people I'd ever known, but the youngest was just plain dickish, riding their celebrity, so to speak. His brothers could barely tolerate him. He was a mean jock with a violent streak who picked on littler kids.
Myself and another friend talked the kid into just going home after he showed us the piece. I'm a pretty good moderator, but I know I lucked out having my friend with me that day, who was one of the best bullshitters I've ever encountered. Between the two of us we helped prevent God-knows-what kind of badness.
On the one hand, I believe the kid wanted our help. That's why he showed us the gun and told us his plan. On the other hand, when you're that close to somebody that on the edge, and he's holding an actual gun with actual bullets in it, it is scary, period. You can feel the weight of the gun just looking at it. You can feel its potential to do harm.
It never made the papers or anything. We let the kid leave, then told somebody about it. He was off to another school after that. As far as I know, the bully lived to bully on, and may even still be bullying people to this day.
What's your point OP?
A man killed himself at the university of texas, surprised?
it's probably been hours since the incident so chill out.
A man killed himself at the university of texas, surprised?
it's probably been hours since the incident so chill out.