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3 Dead in Shooting at University of Alabama Campus

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3 Dead in Shooting at University of Alabama Campus - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com

Officials at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus say three people have been killed and another injured in a campus shooting.

University spokesman Ray Garner says a woman is in custody but he could not identify her or any of the victims.

Sophomore Erin Johnson tells The Huntsville Times a biology faculty meeting was under way when she heard screams coming from the room.

The shooting happened Friday afternoon in the university's Shelby Center, a science building. University police secured the building and students were cleared from it.

The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line.
 
What a terrible tragedy. And now because of it BU Police will spam us with emails about safety.
 
What a terrible tragedy. And now because of it BU Police will spam us with emails about safety.
When if the really wanted you safe, they would enforce mandatory self-defense and firearm training for all their students, as well as mandatory requirements to carry a handgun, shotgun, or preferably an assult rifle at all times...............................

:mrgreen:
 
When if the really wanted you safe, they would enforce mandatory self-defense and firearm training for all their students, as well as mandatory requirements to carry a handgun, shotgun, or preferably an assult rifle at all times...............................

:mrgreen:

They actually have a good number of self-defense classes that a lot of freshman take. Plus on our school IDs we have like numbers to BU police, Boston PD, and the number for escorts if it is late and we don't want to walk back to our dorms alone. And then any crime that happens within like two miles of school we hear about.
 
The hell is wrong with students these days.
 
When if the really wanted you safe, they would enforce mandatory self-defense and firearm training for all their students, as well as mandatory requirements to carry a handgun, shotgun, or preferably an assult rifle at all times...............................

:mrgreen:

Yeah sure, college students with Assault Rifles. I bet you if those students were armed, the number of deaths from the confusion alone would have been more than those who were actually killed by the gunwoman.
 
The hell is wrong with students these days.
Hold on, Apo...
A woman opened fire during a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus Friday, killing three faculty members and injuring two other faculty members and a staff member.
Sounds like it was faculty, not students...
 
Yeah sure, college students with Assault Rifles. I bet you if those students were armed, the number of deaths from the confusion alone would have been more than those who were actually killed by the gunwoman.
Wasn't students...
 
For all I could care it could have been the janitorial staff, still a terrible terrible thing.
 
Yeah sure, college students with Assault Rifles. I bet you if those students were armed, the number of deaths from the confusion alone would have been more than those who were actually killed by the gunwoman.

well when my late father was a student at Yale the mid to late 1940s most of the men there were in the navy or army. My father often had "shore patrol" after classes meaning he attended classes with his 45 Pistol on his belt. He never ever heard of anyone shooting another student. As a prep school student he was the national high school skeet champion and often had a shotgun with him-once again, no shootings. His first two years in college-due to the v-12 military program was at the college nearest his home with the program-Miami of Ohio where he was a top ranked collegiate rifle shot. He kept his rifle in his dorm -once again no one ever was shot by varsity rifle team members.
 
well when my late father was a student at Yale the mid to late 1940s most of the men there were in the navy or army. My father often had "shore patrol" after classes meaning he attended classes with his 45 Pistol on his belt. He never ever heard of anyone shooting another student. As a prep school student he was the national high school skeet champion and often had a shotgun with him-once again, no shootings. His first two years in college-due to the v-12 military program was at the college nearest his home with the program-Miami of Ohio where he was a top ranked collegiate rifle shot. He kept his rifle in his dorm -once again no one ever was shot by varsity rifle team members.

This is not a comment on gun control, but you have to admit, it was a different time back then.
 
If we are going to openly allow thugs and short fused wackos, they are going to have to strengthen an armed police presence. When i went to school, a lot of students had guns in their doors, apartments, house, etc.... I remember hearing a squabble involving two friends. His buddy got his GF knocked up and he made it known to a few people that he was going to kill him. Of course, i was a little freaked out because i knew he had a gun, and was pretty into this girl. The whole thing fell through of course via the coaching staff's intervention; however there was never any mention of a gun because not everyone knew.
 
This is not a comment on gun control, but you have to admit, it was a different time back then.


Hi Cap. :2wave:

Is that an admission that most people these days are, generally, "bad people" to a far greater degree or commonality than was the case in, say, the 1950's or 60's?

What is "a different time" really, than an assertion that people in general were different? What did a majority of people have back then, that so many today lack?

It certainly wasn't material things. There was lots of poverty in the 50's.
It certainly wasn't people not having opportunities and things to do. Back in the 50's, race and sex were more likely to limit one's opportunities than today, and as for diversions many small towns had a malt shop and a movie theater and that was it.
Hardly anybody saw a shrink in the 1950's. Most people didn't lock their doors, even though they might live a few miles from a street where the houses were shacks and the poor folks that lived there had to butcher their own chickens if they wanted meat to eat.

Not material things or cultural sophistication then.

What was it they had, then, that we lack, now... that guns were more commonplace but things like this rarely ever happened?

I have my own ideas but I'm curious what you think.
 
This is not a comment on gun control, but you have to admit, it was a different time back then.

yeah young men were treated like young men and trusted to act like men. An 18 year old who might have to fight the nazis with tanks, flamethrowers, heavy machine guns and fighter planes was probably able to be trusted with a 45 pistol

of course back then you could buy a gun by mail at age 15
 
... that guns were more commonplace but things like this rarely ever happened?

It has to do with deviance theories. In a nearly completely homogenous school population - like that of the 1940s - you will find very little deviation regardless of how much of a control mechanism there is in place. In a school population as diverse as that of modern day universities you will see more deviation.
 
When if the really wanted you safe, they would enforce mandatory self-defense and firearm training for all their students, as well as mandatory requirements to carry a handgun, shotgun, or preferably an assult rifle at all times...............................

:mrgreen:
The second amendment absolutely, can save your life when seconds count and the cops are minutes away.
 
The second amendment absolutely, can save your life when seconds count and the cops are minutes away.

Do you guys really think students should be allowed to carry guns to school? College? High School?
 
Do you guys really think students should be allowed to carry guns to school? College? High School?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGt_O1uM8"]YouTube- Gun Free Zones - 1/2 Hour News Hour[/ame]
 
Do you guys really think students should be allowed to carry guns to school? College? High School?
absolutely not, it was the faculty that was solely involved BTW. Non the less this situation like this can not be stopped, somebody short circuiting is almost impossible to predict. Although if in a perfect world with this imperfect situation, if the facility was armed this may have been stopped instead of the cops arriving to body bag the dead. No easy answers to these problems.
 
The second amendment absolutely, can save your life when seconds count and the cops are minutes away.
Though armed security guards in such cases are usually seconds away.
 
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