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Univ. of Texas Shooting
Leeroy Jenkins
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Could have been worse. Thank God the dummy just did himself in.
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wish they'd just kill themselves in their own home and keep the bad press off of guns/gunowners
It has to be a lie. Everyone knows you can't carry firearms on campus.
I agree, this whole thing is a complete fabrication. Ever since they put up that "no firearms" sign on campus every time someone has tried to bring a firearm onto that campus it has instantaneously melted.[}:)]
quote:Originally posted by nunn
It has to be a lie. Everyone knows you can't carry firearms on campus.
I agree, this whole thing is a complete fabrication. Ever since they put up that "no firearms" sign on campus every time someone has tried to bring a firearm onto that campus it has instantaneously melted.[}:)]
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Men showed up from all over the area with their hunting rifles. Men fired on Whitman, and probably saved some lives by forcing Whitman to keep his head down. I was just a kid, but I watched it on the news and thought, "That's pretty cool. I wish I could go there and shoot at that guy." All I had was a Marlin .22, but I would have shot at Whitman with it if given the chance.
Eventually, it was ONE Austin PD officer and a member of the UT staff who got Whitman. The UT employee later wrote an article about it, published in one of the major gun magazines.
I don't remember the name of the Austin PD officer, but he was later recruited into the Texas Rangers, and he was the last Ranger to be recruited from outside the ranks of the DPS.
Consider the risk involved in this scenario. Two guys, one with a six shot revolver, and one with a rifle, go up the tower after a heavily-armed madman. Neither has body armor. They have to contend, not only with Whitman, but with bullets flying all over the tower, being fired from the ground. But, they went in and got him, and both walked away.
By the way, Charles Whitman had been both an Eagle Scout and a Marine. He had a history of drug abuse, and a previously undiagnosed brain tumor.
Before going to the tower, Whitman had killed his mother at home.
Fortunately, such people are rare, but there are enough of them among us to keep the rest of us a little cautious.
I remember 1966, when Charles Whitman went off his nut and shot all those people from the tower on the UT campus. That was in the days before SWAT teams, and the police had no planned response for such an incident.
Men showed up from all over the area with their hunting rifles. Men fired on Whitman, and probably saved some lives by forcing Whitman to keep his head down. I was just a kid, but I watched it on the news and thought, "That's pretty cool. I wish I could go there and shoot at that guy." All I had was a Marlin .22, but I would have shot at Whitman with it if given the chance.
Eventually, it was ONE Austin PD officer and a member of the UT staff who got Whitman. The UT employee later wrote an article about it, published in one of the major gun magazines.
I don't remember the name of the Austin PD officer, but he was later recruited into the Texas Rangers, and he was the last Ranger to be recruited from outside the ranks of the DPS.
Consider the risk involved in this scenario. Two guys, one with a six shot revolver, and one with a rifle, go up the tower after a heavily-armed madman. Neither has body armor. They have to contend, not only with Whitman, but with bullets flying all over the tower, being fired from the ground. But, they went in and got him, and both walked away.
By the way, Charles Whitman had been both an Eagle Scout and a Marine. I don't think it was ever determined what set him off.
perhaps it was the ill treatment that service men suffered from the hippie college students that drove him to exact some revenge.