Blue Byline » Virginia Tech shooting 2007 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Virginia Tech continues to teach us human nature http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/12/10/1170/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/12/10/1170/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:04:37 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1170

Almost three thousand miles separates us from recent events at Virginia Tech, yet the irony is as palpable as the chill in the air.

Within minutes of a fatal shooting on this cursed campus last Thursday, officials sounded a school alarm and inundated students’ cell phones with texted news and updates.

The nature of the event itself was painfully reminiscent: A lone subject approaches a police officer, shoots him and then runs away. For those of us living in the Puget Sound area, it is a reminder of the six police officers slain in a similar unprovoked fashion between October, …

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