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Making our schools safe: the Virginia Tech shooting rampage highlights the vulnerability of our schools to gun violence, but the answer to the problem is not more gun-control laws.(CULTURAL VIOLENCE)(Cover story)
At about the same time Cho Seung-Hui was shooting to death 32 unarmed students on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, a different scenario was unfolding near Waynesburg, Kentucky. Venus Ramey had had equipment stolen from the barn on her tobacco farm before. When she saw her dog dash into the barn, she suspected something was amiss. Balancing on her walker, the 82-year-old woman drew her snub-nosed .38 as Curtis Parrish, a would-be thief, emerged. The revolver had a salutary effect on Parrish, who suddenly announced that he was leaving immediately. He intended to jump into a waiting car with three of his accomplices, but Ramey yelled, "Oh, no you won't," ...
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...horror of the carnage on the campus of Virginia Tech has been compounded by the revelation that campus killer Cho Seung-Hui carefully planned his murder...killings around 7:15 a.m. in a Virginia Tech residence hall and the massacre of...
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...the videotapes Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC in the midst of the Virginia Tech massacre, he spoke...not everyone. "Cho Seung-hui, we fringed...referring to the Virginia Tech massacre. Schools...national hero. "Cho Seung-Hui was ignored...
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Cho Seung-Hui rants launched a diatribe between killing sprees New...that took the lives of more than 30 students and teachers at Virginia Tech University, South Korean Cho Seung Hui mailed a package to an American news channel containing...
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- News wire article from: News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) April 20, 2007 700+ words
...rolled, and the knives and guns and lunacy of the young man who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech were there for all to see, all America reeled in horror. Cho Seung-Hui pointed his guns at the camera just as he must have pointed them at his victims...
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- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable April 23, 2007 700+ words
By Staff Last week's horrific events at Virginia Tech leave behind images we will never forget. The massacre of 32 people by Cho Seung-Hui was a tragedy that still doesn't seem possible. The video containing the diatribe he sent to NBC was...
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Apr. 20--Details about Cho Seung-Hui's involuntary commitment to a psychiatric center in 2005, a judge signing an order saying the Virginia Tech student presented "an imminent danger to self or others," are pushing to the fore questions...
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...Byline: Todd Spangler Apr. 17--Virginia Tech police say a South Korean student...The shooter was identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old legal...senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. A law enforcement official...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek April 30, 2007 700+ words
...see life, their stories. But his--just emptiness." Cho Seung-Hui had a life and a story, but he seemed determined not...except in dark dreams and then in a final spasm of killing. At Virginia Tech, and possibly at home long before he went away to college...
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...latest from the Virginia Tech campus -- Brian...of the suspect, Cho Seung-Hui. This is...treatments. Not clear if Cho Seung-Hui did that or...Brian Todd from Virginia Tech's campus. Killer Cho Seung-Hui apparently...
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