There's a gunman on the campus of Texas A&M

[Seen the light]

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou090306_mh_texas_a%26M_gunman.d4089ae.html

In case you know anyone there.

[slackmaster]

1. Impossible

Guns aren't allowed on campus.

[msongs]

2. guns don't kill people, bullets do, nt

[wtmusic]

3. The bullets are not responsible.

It's the GUNPOWDER behind the bullets. Without the powder, the bullets would be nowhere.

Let's assign responsibility responsibly.

[Greyskye]

6. Nonsense.

It's the potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal that's ultimately responsible.

Without those, gunpowder wouldn't even be a flash in the pan.

[wtmusic]

7. Gunpowder nuts LOVE to point fingers at innocent compounds

but they only compound the problem.

We must look to the people who mixed the compounds, and their parents.

[Greyskye]

9. Oh sure, blame the chemists!

The real problem lies with those damn miners! If it wasn't for them, those compounds would still be safe underground.

[11 Bravo]

21. Miners my ass. Whoever armed that miner with a pick and a shovel is ultimately responsible!

[Mika]

23. Blame the smelters of ores.

Without them there'd be no shell casings, nor pickaxes.

Or guns for that matter.
:eyes:

[BuyingThyme]

25. I love oreos.

How do you melt them?

[Javaman]

26. I blame geology. If it weren't for the earths evolution, the elements wouldn't have combined!!!

I just hate geology so much!!

[NeedleCast]

34. that's some bullshit

The early universe is the cause of all of this. Without stars and their fissioning ways, there would only be hydrogen and helium and we wouldn't have to worry about any of this shit.

[Javaman]

35. Oh come on!! everyone knows it was the fucking big bang!! nt

[cloudbase]

29. Now just a minute.

UTEP had nothing to do with any of this.

[benEzra]

11. Nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and nitroguanidine.

Potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal is so 18th century.

[slackmaster]

16. Now wait just a gosh darn moment

Without a primer, the gunpowder can't ignite.

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[jody]

4. Will such calls replace bomb threats on campuses? n/t

[Fleshdancer]

5. What a coincidence

2 bills were filed recently in the Texas Senate that would allow concealed handguns on college campuses and now there's a gunman on A&M campus? Friday after 5pm?

:tinfoilhat:

[Shakespeare]

8. Warning canceled, no gunman found.

They've updated the story.

That's my alma mater, and a couple of my closest friends still work on campus.

[BuyingThyme]

10. Mighta been a shadow person.

[benEzra]

13. Or someone carrying a giant burrito

that someone else mistook for a gun.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7683168/

School mistakes huge burrito for weapon, goes into lockdown

CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.

Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.

The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.

[BuyingThyme]

15. I've a big eater. But I've never seen

anything even close to a 30-inch burrito.

[petronius]

19. A 30" burrito isn't a gun, it's a WMD

:wow: (But I admit, I'd like to know where to get one...)

[benEzra]

20. ROFLMAO (n/t)

[Sultana]

28. LOLz

:rofl:

[cloudbase]

31. Must have been one of those big boys

from Freebird's.

[slackmaster]

17. Maybe it was a kid with a pointy stick

:nuke:

[Toucano]

12. IGNORE.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Probably some CT walking the Bull Ring.

The two other Aggies on this board will know what I mean. The rest of you will just have to wonder. ;)

[11 Bravo]

22. One of my best friends is an A&M grad. He left a fair amount of shoe leather in the Bull Ring.

(Like me, he's something of a wise ass, and the more senior cadets didn't always find him amusing.)

[Shakespeare]

37. Heh...quite possible.

:hi:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

18. Did you read the story?

"We came to the conclusion that it was a hoax, a bogus call," university spokesman Lane Stephenson told The Associated Press.


:eyes:

[Seen the light]

30. It's been updated since I first posted this thread

I'd delete it now if I could.

[Sancho]

24. Of course! Everyone in Texas is armed...

even those cute little collie dawgs have six-shooters!

[SeattleGirl]

32. Glad it turned out to be nothing. I do know someone who goes to

school there.

[G_j]

33. not like it hadn't happened before,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

This article is about the tower sniper. For the politician, see Charles S. Whitman.
Charles Joseph Whitman

Born June 24, 1941
Lake Worth, Florida, USA
Died August 1, 1966 (aged 25)
Austin, Texas, USA
Cause of death Shot by police
Nationality American
Education Engineering student

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who killed 14 people and wounded 32 others during a shooting rampage on and around the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Three were killed inside the University's tower and ten killed from the observation deck of the University's 32-story administrative building on August 1, 1966; one died a week later from her wounds. The tower massacre happened shortly after Whitman murdered his wife and mother at their homes. He was eventually shot and killed by Austin Police Officer Houston McCoy,<1> assisted by Austin Police Officer Ramiro Martinez.

[Shakespeare]

38. That wasn't at A&M.

That was at the OTHER large state school in Austin.

[bmbmd]

36. Our brothers in Bryan-College Staiton are a little on edge.

Double murder earlier in the day-brother and sister Aggies.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/40854857.html

[Ilsa]

39. Such a sad story, isn't it?

Here's my thread on the news in The Eagle today:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5210613&mesg_id=5210613

We were in Brenham this weekend and in CS on Saturday to see the Fighting Texas Aggie Band. Lot's of activities there this weekend.

This story is so sad.