Hubzilla’s rant on the Virgina Tech shooting, which mirrors my own thoughts:

Okay, the murderer had two handguns, a Glock and a .22, each one holds 15 and 10 rounds respectively. He killed (not just wounded) 32 people. That’s an awful lot from a non-automatic weapon. With a .22, you’d almost need to get a head or chest shot to kill quickly.

Unless he was really good, he probably needed 2-3 shots per person. Which means he would’ve needed to reload maybe 2-3 times. Actually, the number would be much higher accounting for the people who were just wounded (29) and inevitable missed shots. Unless he did each one point-blank, but that leads to more complications, especially time.

So allowing for breaks in reloading and carefully aiming kill shots, WHY DIDN’T ANYONE STOP HIM? Tackle him, bum-rush him, throw a chair, shoot a fire extinguisher, anything? We’re not talking Womens Studies or Fine Arts majors here; engineering students are probably 80% male. Other than a professor who held a door closed, no other men tried to stop him?

At Columbine, 2 guys with automatic weapons and explosives murdered 12 high-school kids in a planned and mapped-out attack. This loner who wrote disturbing poetry got 32 college adults with a couple of pistols. None of them remembered Todd Beamer or Flight 93?