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...Common Ground on Gun Control? Witness: The Dormitory Murders How Much of Cho to Show? Viewpoint: Va. Tech's President Should Resign Echoes of Columbine Inside a Mass Murderer's Mind What Can Schools Do? The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm When a School Learns to Mourn How to Make Campuses Safer Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools Photos
...news cycle surrendered to round-the-clock coverage, finding meaning in the mayhem was a performance art: Dr. Phil was warning about the dangers of a violent popular culture before anyone knew which culture had produced this particular killer. Bill O'Reilly whacked "America haters" and knee-jerk gun controllers before declaring his support for more "sensible" gun-control laws than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which allowed a suicidal kid with a history of mental illness to get multiple weapons without any trouble...
...noises, teacher Jocelyn Couture-Nowak stiffened: "That's not what I think it is, is it?" Clay Violand, 20, a junior in international studies, pointed at the teacher and said, "Put that desk in front of the door. Now!" She did, but the door still nudged open, and a gun came into view, then a man. Violand dove under a desk as Cho began systematically shooting people, almost in rhythm, taking his time. "After every shot I thought, 'O.K., the next one is me,'" Violand said, so he made himself lie perfectly still, lifeless. "Sometimes after a shot I would...
...police who came. It was Cho, back for another round, reloading his gun and firing another shot into the dead and wounded. He thinks he heard Cho reload three times, and at every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front...
Gene Cole, a janitor, heard shots, went around a corner on the second floor and saw a body. Then he saw Cho loading his gun. Cole turned and fled down the stairs. The doors to Norris were chained shut from the inside, the better to slow down police; one report said there were also notes on the doors saying they had been booby-trapped. Outside Norris and elsewhere around campus, police yelled at students to stay inside, grabbed and hauled them indoors. About 9:55 a.m., a second campuswide e-mail went out. It said, "A gunman is loose...