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Post #282870

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lordjedi
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Virginia Tech shooting
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Date created
17-Apr-2007, 2:49 PM
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I'm not sure what we're expecting the campus officials to have done at the time. This is a university, not a high school, where you have one or two buildings with a linking PA system. This is a university, with thousands of students spread over hundreds of acres and dozens of buildings. I'm not sure if there is a better way to inform the entire student and faculty body of danger than e-mail.

I heard something about text messaging.

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
The medical examiner said each victim had no less than three bullets in them. Even the survivors.


Thats at least 150 bullets. How many bullets in a clip?


Generally speaking only 10 due to the Federal High Capacity magazine ban from several years ago. Scratch that. I just checked Wikipedia. That ban expired in 2004. In that case, without knowing the exact model of the guns, I'd go with the high end. A Glock 19 (9mm) has a 15 round capacity. A Glock 18 can use a high capacity magazine that carries 33 rounds, but I doubt he had one of these. The magazine is gigantic and doesn't look like it could easily be hidden. As for a 22, those can have as many as 18 rounds. So the two guns combined along with 2 clips for each weapon to reload with could have killed 33 people.

How many were wounded?