Masacre at Virginia Tech

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The saying “be careful what you wish for” fits at the moment. Minutes after complaining that there was nothing to blog about I checked the news sites and my email and found out about the Virginia Tech school shooting. Metroblogging DC [mbdc] has a few posts up with a good deal of information to do with the shooting including an open thread. It’s worth looking at because they’ve got some good information from multiple sources.

I wish anyone who has friends or family at VT well.

Update, 4:45p, via CNN Newsfeed: Virginia is now in a State of Emergency, as ordered by Governor Kaine, who is on his way home from Tokyo. 33 dead. 15 more critically injured. A list of dead may be released as soon as tomorrow. The shooter in Norris Hall had no identification on his person, and has yet to be identified. “Why didn’t you shut down the campus at the first shooting?” “We concluded the first shooting was a domestic shooting, and we had reason to believe the shooter was leaving the state.” Police at this time have not connected the first shooting to the second.