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Feb 18th, 2008 04:32 PM

Emu

You can try talking to your DM about crafting a cold iron sword to deal with them

Feb 18th, 2008 07:08 AM

executioneer

i hear they're more resistant to fire and lightning, though

Feb 18th, 2008 06:31 AM

Chojin

Or if women are just really weak to bullets.

Feb 15th, 2008 10:28 PM

Emu

Four of his five death victims were female, if I recall. I do wonder if V day has any bearing on the motive.

Feb 15th, 2008 12:08 PM

El Blanco

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geggy

I blame valentine's day. Ban the holiday already.

Psh, like there's any record of violence on Valentine's day.

Feb 15th, 2008 11:52 AM

Dr. Boogie

On the plus side, students in that class can skip out for a while and claim they're terrified a gunman will jump out from behind the curtain.

I once took a chemistry class where I could've used an excuse like that.

Feb 15th, 2008 10:47 AM

Geggy

Quote:

Originally Posted by DuFresne

Let the gun control and video game violence flame wars commence!

I blame valentine's day. Ban the holiday already.

Feb 15th, 2008 01:11 AM

Zomboid

last week when someone commented on noise from the hallway, my teacher said that it's probably some disgruntled student with a gun. There was no way ANYONE would have gotten away with making that joke when I was in high school

. Pretty fucked up how many of these things have occurred though.

Feb 15th, 2008 12:49 AM

Chojin

I would be pretty annoyed if this happened to me.

I'd be all BUDDY, COME ON. Trying to go to school here.

Feb 15th, 2008 12:14 AM

Jeanette X

Jesus Christ, another one?

Feb 14th, 2008 08:43 PM

Pub Lover

Four dead & 18 wounded? Pffft! Not the worst, but there are way better tallies. I hope the next one does a better job of it.

Feb 14th, 2008 08:35 PM

DuFresne

NIU Shooting

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/uni...ing/index.html

Quote:

DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- A gunman dressed in black walked from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall Thursday at Northern Illinois University and shot 22 people, four fatally, then killed himself, authorities said.

Rescue workers carry a victim from Cole Hall Thursday after a gunman shot 22 people during a geology class.

Four of the wounded were in critical condition, eight in stable condition; and six in fair to good condition, a hospital Web site said.
The shooting occurred shortly after 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) in Cole Hall. The class runs from 2 p.m. until 3:15 p.m., University President John Peters said.
"It started and it stopped very quickly," said Police Chief Donald Grady. The gunman, whose identity has not been revealed publicly, was not a student at the NIU campus in DeKalb, west of Chicago, but "may have been a student somewhere else."
Police do not have an apparent motive now, Grady said.
Kevin McEnery said he was in the classroom when a man dressed in a black shirt, dark pants and black hat burst in carrying a shotgun.
"He just kicked the door open, just started shooting," said McEnery, who was in the class at the time. "All I really heard was just people screaming, yelling get out. ... close to 30 shots were fired." Watch McEnery describe the chaos at the scene »
There are about 162 registered students in the class, which met in a large lecture hall.
"Witnesses say someone dressed in black came out from behind a screen in the front of the classroom and opened fire with a shotgun," Peters said.
The gunman fired from a stage at the front of the classroom, Grady said.
At 3:03, NIU police responded and, four minutes later, the campus was ordered into "a lockdown situation," he said.
At 3:20, an all-campus alert went out via the campus Web site, e-mail, voice mail, the campus crisis hotline, the news media and various alarm systems, he said.
"The message basically was: There's a gunman on campus, stay where you are, make yourself as safe as possible," he said.
Rosie Moroni, a student at the school, told CNN she was outside Cole Hall near the King Commons at 2:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET) when she heard shots coming from the classroom she had intended to enter.
The shot was followed by "a lot of people screaming," then people ran out the doors yelling, "He's got a gun, call 9-1-1," she said.
"It was complete chaos ... it's very scary here right now."
By 4 p.m. police had swept the area "and determined there was only one gunman" and that he was dead.
Grady said the gunman used three guns during his rampage -- a shotgun, a Glock and a small-caliber handgun -- and was still on the stage when he turned one of the guns on himself. The small-caliber handgun has not been recovered, he said. He said the shooter started with a shotgun, then switched to a pistol.
It appears that he acted alone, said Grady.

Let the gun control and video game violence flame wars commence!

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