Originally posted by: lordjedi
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?
These were 9mm so I would assume 10 - 15 rounds. If that is the case twenty to thirty shots per gun, not to mention it is terribly easy to reload. Even if he only had the two clips, you can load one of those things in less than a minute.
Originally posted by: sean wookie
I'm guessing he planned and trained to a very large extent maybe for months. Judging that he only had 2 hand guns.
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?
These were 9mm so I would assume 10 - 15 rounds. If that is the case twenty to thirty shots per gun, not to mention it is terribly easy to reload. Even if he only had the two clips, you can load one of those things in less than a minute.
Originally posted by: sean wookie
I'm guessing he planned and trained to a very large extent maybe for months. Judging that he only had 2 hand guns.
What makes you guess that? I would bet anybody who has never even touch a gun before could do just as much damage as this guy did. In fact, I would say the two guns would be evidence against his having trained (that is assuming he used them both at once, rather than having one holstered and the other in use), as you can be much more accurate with one gun, but to reasonably aim and shoot with two guns at the same time is a bit of a fairytale. I would also say that the fact that he was using two guns also makes it very likely that he was a gamer.
As far as closing down the campus or giving a better warning, that doesn't really hold up. Like somebody said, this is a University campus, not a high school. It would be just like evacuating a small city for the sake of a murder case. Finding two people dead doesn't scream out "rampage" when there is a rampage you expect it to be over and done by the time the police arrive or to turn into a hostage situation perhaps. You find two people dead and it looks an awful lot like a simple murder case. Also one of the two was an R.A., he is the one who is suppose to attend to dorm residence when they need help. In this case it would be likely to assume he was simply doing his job and trying to intervien in a dispute which unfortunately turned violent. In these cases it is pretty much assured the killer will flee. The administration couldn't have done anything. A usual rampage pops out of know where and people die. In this case there was a sort of "warning" but there was nothing in that warning to indicate that it was anything more than a simple dispute turned violent.
If they did have an alarm system go off, it would sent the campus into chaos, and very likely more people would die. A P.A. system that could cover the whole campus is about as likely as a P.A. system covering a whole city. And you wouldn't want to come on it and say that there has been a murder on campus because chances are it was simply that, just a murder. All you are going to do is throw people into panic. Nobody could have forseen what was coming. They need to leave the administration alone. It was no more their faults than it was the faults of the victims. If there had been a call after the murder with a threat that they were going to go on a rampage, then it would have been time to track down all students and evacuate them. However, this was not the case.