VA college crisis the press won’t mention
Date: Apr 22, 2007 12:58 PM
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VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE
Death toll limited before campus gun ban
5 years ago, shooter subdued by armed students
Posted: April 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

? 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A deeply troubled and disgruntled foreign student runs afoul
of college authorities.

He comes to the Virginia campus armed and starts shooting in
one building.

But, unlike the massacre at Virginia Tech last week, the
damage was contained in this incident that occurred five
years ago, before the state legislature banned guns on
college campuses.

On Jan. 16, 2002, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old student
from Nigeria, walked into the Appalachian School of Law
offices of Dean Anthony Sutin, 42, a former acting assistant
U.S. attorney, and professor Thomas Blackwell, 41, and
opened fire with a .380 ACP semi-automatic handgun ?
shooting them at close range.

Also killed in the same building was student Angela Denise
Dales, 33. Three others were wounded.

As soon as the gunfire erupted, two students acting
independently of one another, Tracy Bridges and Mikael
Gross, ran to their vehicles to retrieve firearms. Gross,
an off-duty police officer in his home state of North
Carolina, got his 9mm pistol and body armor. Bridges got
out his .357 Magnum.

Bridges and Gross went back to the building where the shots
were heard and as Odighizuwa exited, they approached from
different angles. Bridges yelled for him to drop his weapon
and the shooter was subdued by several unarmed students.

Gross went back to his car and got handcuffs to detain the
shooter until police arrived.

Most news reports of the incident failed to mention the
presence of two armed students and their role in subduing
the shooter, saying only that he was tackled by bystanders.

Odighizuwa was tried for the murders and sentenced to
multiple life terms in prison.

Virginia Tech, like many of the nation’s schools and college
campuses, is a so-called “gun-free zone,” which Second
Amendment supporters say invites gun violence ? especially
from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims
as possible.

Foreign-born student Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded
another 15 before turning his gun on himself.

A year earlier, the Virginia legislature banned all guns on
campus in the interest of safety.

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !