Tuesday, April 17, 2007

ContraCostaTimes.com - Deepest sympathies

ContraCostaTimes.com - Deepest sympathies: "HERE WE GO AGAIN. That is all we can think as we face the horror of another mass killing on a school campus. Details remain sketchy, but what is crystal clear is that at least 33 people are dead on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. with many more injured.

The president of Virginia Tech, Charles Steger, called the shooting a tragedy 'of monumental proportions.' He did not understate.

In fact, this incident is the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. Heretofore, the deadliest such event was the 1966 shootings when Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower at the University of Texas and opened fire. Whitman killed 16 people before he was shot by police."

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