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My first thought on hearing that two were shot in a dorm, followed by a rampage several hours later, was that this was probably a spurned lover or cuckhold who "went postal". Going postal, whatever else it might be, is also a regularised model of behaviour that Americans learn about through news and entertainment media and in their own oral traditions. The angle taken by professional journalists, faux and others, is to hint at dark motives and promote the idea that the U.S. needs more authoritarianism. On Fox just now there was criticism of VA law that bans students carrying guns into the classroom. If only this senseless law didn't exist, the students in the engineering building could have protected themselves by plugging the bad guy. Goddamn liberals. Astagfirullah.
