So I just survived a school shooting...

[FaceFaceFace]

I too attend the University of Texas and live in Jester and was preparing to leave for my first class of the day when the lock down began so I just went back to my room and got lots of extra sleep. Thus far, I have not seen any attempt to draw a correlation to Video Games, but I suspect such an accusation will come.

Yeah a friend of mine lives in Jester and was stuck there. I imagine it was kinda nerve-racking being so close to the library. I was in Hogg so I was a decent ways away, but a little close to Calhoun where the SWAT guys were looking for the imaginary second suspect.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

An ak-47?

H-h..ow?

They're perfectly legal in the US so they are readily available. If the weapon is semi-automatic only, it's actually quite easy (and cheap) to acquire one. Getting a fully automatic weapon requires the purchase of an additional permit and some extra legal rigmarole but is still often entirely legal. And, thanks to the fact that said weapon is widely copied, there are untold versions of the weapon meaning I could purchase something that a lay person would assume was an AK-47 for substantially less than I paid for my Springfield XD handgun.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I too attend the University of Texas and live in Jester and was preparing to leave for my first class of the day when the lock down began so I just went back to my room and got lots of extra sleep. Thus far, I have not seen any attempt to draw a correlation to Video Games, but I suspect such an accusation will come.

Yeah a friend of mine lives in Jester and was stuck there. I imagine it was kinda nerve-racking being so close to the library. I was in Hogg so I was a decent ways away, but a little close to Calhoun where the SWAT guys were looking for the imaginary second suspect.

CS major I assume?

 

[FaceFaceFace]

I too attend the University of Texas and live in Jester and was preparing to leave for my first class of the day when the lock down began so I just went back to my room and got lots of extra sleep. Thus far, I have not seen any attempt to draw a correlation to Video Games, but I suspect such an accusation will come.

Yeah a friend of mine lives in Jester and was stuck there. I imagine it was kinda nerve-racking being so close to the library. I was in Hogg so I was a decent ways away, but a little close to Calhoun where the SWAT guys were looking for the imaginary second suspect.

CS major I assume?

No, English major. My UGS is in the big lecture hall on the side.

 

[InnerRebellion]

We got evacuated today....because some dumbass thought putting bundles of firecrackers in the vents, under the stairs and in toilets and somehow managing to blow em all up at the same time would be funny...they think he had accomplices or had plastic explosives or something...I don't trust the cops here.

It would have been mildly amusing if the bathroom that blew hadn't been across the hall from my classroom.

 

[Regular Guy]

There was a threat at my high school last year, a group of ten or so kids from the next school over were planning to shoot up their school, then come over and shoot up our entire complex (a high school combined with a middle school). They were caught that morning, lots of guns were confiscated.

No idea how they planned to get from their school to ours, but still glad I never got a chance to find out.

 

[fishfart]

When I was in high-school a guy a year above me committed suicide in the toilet by shooting himself with a sawed-off shotgun. I remember the principal sitting us all down in the quad soon after it happened and telling us. Naturally everyone was shocked. Not only at the suicide, but at the fact that someone felt compelled to bring the gun to school.

 

[slipknot4]

Man, is everyone OK? Apart from the gunman of course.

Am I a bad person if I laughed a bit at that?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I too attend the University of Texas and live in Jester and was preparing to leave for my first class of the day when the lock down began so I just went back to my room and got lots of extra sleep. Thus far, I have not seen any attempt to draw a correlation to Video Games, but I suspect such an accusation will come.

Yeah a friend of mine lives in Jester and was stuck there. I imagine it was kinda nerve-racking being so close to the library. I was in Hogg so I was a decent ways away, but a little close to Calhoun where the SWAT guys were looking for the imaginary second suspect.

CS major I assume?

No, English major. My UGS is in the big lecture hall on the side.

Gotcha. The only thing I know about Hogg is my CS adviser lurks somewhere in the building. My first class of the day would have taken me to the UTC building had I actually made it that far. That would not be a particularly pleasant place to be stuck for four hours.

 

[The Ambrosian]

Well you're in Texas....were only the strong survive. So you must be strong! And I've been in a "knife scare" at school.

A knife scare? Really?
At my school 7 students (I think might be 6 or 8) have been excluded since last Christmas for possession of a weapon, all knives. One kid I was friends with had a craft knife on him that he was going to give to his mate for models (something akin to warhammer I think) and they expelled him for it. I felt pretty sorry for him.
But the rest have been proper flick-knives and stuff.

What surprised me is every one of them except two have been year 7 or 8. You'd think it'd be older kids if anything. It's quite scary to be honest. Because kids just start on each other over little things and you never know who's got a knife.

Oh and two years ago a kid pulled a knife in a fight and tried to cut a guys face. He made a shallow cut along his cheek. He was lucky it wasn't serious.

It's not a rough area or anything it's quite a nice place. :/

And for those who care it's Birmingham, UK.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Wait.........How did you survive a school shooting? He shot himself...

 

[ToxinArrow]

It's as easy to get a hold of an AK as it is any other rifle. There is noting really special about the civilian model of the firearm. It shoots a 7.62x39 cartridge, which packs less of a punch then BAR in .30-06, BARs are common hunting rifles, which where once military service rifles as well. I have a .300 win mag rifle I use for hunting, .300 win mag is 7.62x67 sized cartridge.

I know the ak-47 is easily got hold for an assault rifle but maybe it is different in the uk but its alot easier to get hold of a rifle than an ak-47 as any kind of semi-auto assault rifle can not be legal in the usa can it?

What is the difference between that and my BAR in .30-06? Aside from the .30-06 being a much more powerful round that is. Nothing, well except one having present military connections. Not that the other was never used by the military because it was.

Automatic weapons are banned, semi-auto weapons are not. There issue is that there is no such thing as an Assault riffle. That's a class of guns made up so they could put anything that looks "military" into it. It's like anything that shoots the .50 BMG. Because the military uses that round for sniper applications it's all of the sudden become an evil round that only dangerous people want to use.

Hell half the weapons they stick in that category fire smaller rounds then that BAR I keep referencing.

Sorry miss type on my part what i meant was its easier to get hold of a handgun than a rifle .Also if thats true and you can legally get semi-auto weapons that is kinda weird.As i always supported the right to have arms in america.But the reasoning behind it was for protection or hunting.If you can acquire an assault rifle then if you can kill an animal in 3 shots "burst-fire" then you should give up hunting animals and if you think you need a weapon like the ak-47 to defend your home you seem to be expecting a squad of armed soldiers to kick in your front door

Burst fire isn't semi-auto. Civilians can't own assault rifles unless they pay applicable fees (no where near the $20,000 I saw listed early by another poster however) and get put on a government watch list. As far as I'm aware you can't own anything automatic made past 1986 either.

And the whole reason the second amendment was made was to protect the general populace from tyrannical government. Who funds and has control over the Army? The government. Who can/will they use should they ever decide 1984 was a good instruction manual? The Army. Get where I'm going?

 

[Thundero13]

I have never been in a situation like this.
I guess people just get really depressed, I know I have but never long enough to actually think about killing myself.
Yes it will get blamed on video games, doesn't everything?

 

[gamepopper101]

Technically no, I did volunteer for a training exercise as a gunshot victim though, not too impressive.

 

[irani_che]

we have TV,
i dont know what to say, we are also somewhat selfish.
however, anyone who does want a shoot-up knows that a warzone isnt too far off

 

[slipknot4]

Man, is everyone OK? Apart from the gunman of course.

Am I a bad person if I laughed a bit at that?

I was thinking of putting a '' at the end of that sentence, but I slapped some sense into myself

Anyway, I still haven't been answered...

Well, it was epic. Thanks for making my day.

 

[cheese_wizington]

He shot a crackhead wif a Kalashnikov!

Ahhhh! Where'd you get that?

The offender had the Kalashnikov!

Ahhhhhh! where'd HE get that?

But in all seriousness. No, but I've had a few fun lock down drills and drug searches, the latter always more fun. 2 and a half Hours of French class? Fuck yeah!

 

[Freedomario]

odd to use a big soviet weapon to shoot himself with rather than a pistol, but anyway...

...no, well, not THAT good, but i guess the best one was on a day of 4 drills, bus,tornado, ect.[small](not fire)[/small] we had a fire drill on the last period, and it was real. not severely real though, i think it was a microwave got caught on fire or something in the hallway.

 

[Cadapalo]

First off glad to know that everyone is okay. Second, how in the heck did he get an ak-47? Lastly, I can only imagine who the media are gonna try and pin this on instead of the actual culprit like they always do.