OT - Two students shot at U of Maryland

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February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 PM
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OT - Two students shot at U of Maryland

Mods feel free to delete if not thread-worthy, but I thought with them about to become a Big Ten school it might be worth posting. It didn't happen at the school itself, but a student shot both of his roommates, killing one, and then killed himself. I thought prayers for the friends and families would be nice. I know I jumped a little bit when I first saw this story because my sister is a student there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/us/2-maryland-students-die-in-murder-suicide-shooting.html?_r=0

Edit: Changed the title. I didn't realize when I posted it that the title was misleading. I blame an 8 am physio exam. Still, if the content is not thread worthy feel free to delete.

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February 12th, 2013 at 1:42 PM | What could go wrong? (Score:5 Normal)
cp4three2
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I have the feeling that posting a story about a murder suicide with a title that seems like it's a mass shooting isn't going to go well.

February 12th, 2013 at 1:46 PM | No, I'm not going to say it. (Score:3 Normal)
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I thought it, though.

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February 12th, 2013 at 1:47 PM | Sad, but - (Score:-1 Offtopic)
February 12th, 2013 at 1:55 PM | First they give students (Score:1 Normal)
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First they give students IPADS and then they shoot em? Seems a bit extreme for the B1G

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:17 PM | Comment (Score:5 Normal)
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Not appropriate

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:26 PM | No its not, I apologize.  (Score:4 Normal)
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No its not, I apologize. 

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February 12th, 2013 at 4:48 PM | See, I didn't post (Score:4 Normal)
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it, but I was confident someone else was thinking it.

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:06 PM | I hope it's not deleted (Score:2 Normal)
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It is definitely thread-worthy. It's just OT.

So so so terribly sad.  The frequency of these situations make me both worried and thankful. Thoughts go out to the families and friends.  There isn't much more I dread that something like this happening.  

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:17 PM | Unfortunately, gun violence (Score:5 Normal)
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Unfortunately, gun violence happens every day in our country.  It is sad to see the stories.

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:40 PM | Unfortunately, violence (Score:2 Normal)
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Violence, in general, happens every day. Look at the crazy story in Japan where that guy slashed all those kids. Weird stuff.

February 12th, 2013 at 4:49 PM | Tens of thousands of children starve (Score:1 Overrated)
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to death every single week. As tragic as a single death might be, there are things that are far worse out there.

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February 12th, 2013 at 5:03 PM | WTF? (Score:2)
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You're right.  Also 9/11 wasn't that bad, I mean look at Hiroshima?  Wait, nevermind, the Civil war had more deaths--Hiroshima didn't matter.  

 

/dripping with s.  

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:33 PM | As a parent of a Michigan (Score:4 Normal)
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As a parent of a Michigan student, I can say that I've had nightmares of scenarios like this. This story freaks me out.

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February 12th, 2013 at 2:37 PM | If you feel (Score:5 Normal)
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the need to engage in a murder-suicide, I'd suggest you do the second one first.  

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:00 PM | Baltimore Sun's Take... (Score:2)
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The Baltimore Sun has some more details on this - (link to their story)

This is very tragic and thoughts and condolences to those involved. One of the many scary things here is that, per the article, this street is a mix of families (with kids) and students (similar to some streets in Ann Arbor), so at another time of day...I don't want to imagine how frightening that would be for everyone there.

 

 

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:30 PM | Honest Question (Score:2)
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To the younger posters on the board.  As a guy who is 20 years removed from his college days in Ann Arbor, are firearms a common presence on campus these days?  I think back to my time at Michigan and can honestly say I never met ANY student who owned or possessed a firearm.  In fact, one of the big political issues/controversies on campus at the time was the administrations decision to arm the University of Michigan police force.  That decision got all kinds of student groups noses in a twist. 

We keep seeing more and more instances of violence on college campuses and it just baffles me because it was almost unheard of back in the 80's and 90's, but it might just be a case of more guns getting into the population and inevitably into the hands of disturbed people.

EDIT {I have to qualify my last paragraph, because after writing it, I recalled one incident my senior year where some guy shot up the Fleming Building with an assault rifle.  I think it was disgruntled U employee.  It was early in the morning and nobody was hurt, but it was still a crazy gun-related incident.}

 

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:34 PM | I think one incident happened (Score:2)
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my freshman year in the Chem building RE: a gun, but I don't think anyone was hurt because it was the middle of the night or something?

I have never met/seen someone with a gun.  Classmates, friends, teachers, residents, even nightlife all have been firearm-free.

We do get the occasional Campus Alert email about assaults and such, but they are usually off-campus and non-UM-related persons.  Even those usually don't have threats related to guns.  And I must add: those "incidents" are dwindling here at UM.

 

Hope this helps.  

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:39 PM | Firearms on Campus (Score:2)
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The only students I remember owning firearms on campus were a couple of the ROTC guys I knew. Other than that I don't remember a single person have a gun at their AA residence. I knew some that had firearms at their parents house, but never in AA. That was only a few years ago.

It seems like it wasn't until after I left AA I realized just how many people in this country own guns.

February 12th, 2013 at 3:48 PM | I graduated more recently and (Score:1)
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I graduated more recently and did not know 1 person who brought a firearm to campus. I was in a fraternity and I think back to some scuffles and issues that arose with other fraternities (almost always after alcohol comsumption) and I now thank God that no one was armed. I am genuinely not trying to get political, but I can only image how drunk fights could escilate if someone had a gun. 

I hope so badly that these things happen less and less, but given the current direction, I am pessimistic. 

February 12th, 2013 at 4:00 PM | Double post (Score:1)
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Double post sorry 
 

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February 12th, 2013 at 3:59 PM | Guns when I was there (Score:1)
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I know several people with guns, and the number has increased since the decision to limit semi-auto weapons. Some students have purchased guns just because the chances of being able to buy them may decrease in the future. With that said, no one lives on campus and owns a gun. the people who own guns use them for hunting purposes not for protection. 

Personally, guns seem pretty normal to me because we grew up with video games. I hope that can shed some light on the issue for you. 

 

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February 12th, 2013 at 4:32 PM | The only person I know who (Score:2)
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The only person I know who owned a gun around campus was one of my housemates who bought a .22 rifle for target shooting. This was when we had a house in Kerrytown. He was definitely not a typical student, though.

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February 12th, 2013 at 4:44 PM | We had guns in our apartment (Score:1)
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One roommate had a pistol he had due to being in the military. The other roommate had a couple rifles, though I can't remember if he had his semi-automatic one with him ("assault rifle" is more or less used by politicians today to mean semi-automatic, but I think the original meaning meant fully automatic M-16s). 

 

I think it's pretty dependent on where you're from. I found that gun ownership at UM was pretty similar to gun ownership at Rice in Texas. 

February 12th, 2013 at 4:51 PM | An assault rifle, or a semi-automatic rifle (Score:3 Normal)
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with black scary things? 

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February 12th, 2013 at 4:26 PM | Sad story... (Score:2 Normal)
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unfortunately these stories are becoming far too frequent. My thoughts and prayers go out to the familes of those involved. I can't imagine being a parent who has lost a child. So sad. 

February 12th, 2013 at 6:43 PM | Damn it. Scared me.  Sister (Score:3 Normal)
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Damn it. Scared me. 

Sister goes there :( 

February 12th, 2013 at 6:55 PM | Seems like one of these happens almost every day (Score:2 Normal)
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It was just 2 days ago that there was the shooting at a Delaware court house. No political commentary, just sad that people keep doing that crap

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