Comparing the (formerly public) VA CCW list with the names of those shot at VT?

[jlbraun]

(edited to remove ambiguity)

That would make for some interesting reading, and if there was someone on the CCW list that was also among the casualties at VT - that would show that the policy of prohibiting guns on campus definitively disarmed a lawful CCW holder who, being disarmed, was killed or injured and was in close enough contact with the gunman that they could have prevented this.

Holy crap.



Given that 1% of the population has a CCW...

My math shows that there's a (1-.99^50)/ = 39.4% chance that one of the victims was a CCW holder, and a (1-.99^200) = 96% chance that there was a disarmed CCW holder in a room with him at some point.

Let me say that again. There a 96% chance that there was a disarmed CCW holder near the gunman at some point that could have stopped this had they not been disarmed. And I don't think that's too far of a stretch.

 

[Doggy Daddy]

Edited out because it does not apply now that the OP has been clarified.

(Thanks, JL)

 

[bogie]

I think it has everything to do with the event.

It's pitiful that it was mandated that the area was a guaranteed unarmed victim zone.

 

[Weimadog]

The Virginia Tech administration made the decision to deny students the ability to resist such an attack.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658

I think looking into how their decision may have changed this tragedy is entirely appropriate, now and any time.

 

[Doggy Daddy]

Weimadog

The Virginia Tech administration made the decision to deny students the ability to resist such an attack.

...

I think looking into how their decision may have changed this tragedy is entirely appropriate, now and any time.

On that, I agree totally.

My problem is that the way the OP is posed :

jlbraun

That would make for some interesting reading, and if there was someone on the CCW list that was also among the casualties at VT...

I read it as supposing that there was a LINK between the publishing of the list and the massacre. As though the sick ba....d looked over the list before deciding on his target and planned accordingly. An idea that I take as being quite a stretch.

Now, it is entirely possible that I misread the intent of the OP, and that the question is more along the lines of: "I wonder if any of the victims were CCW holders. Let's look at the published list and see if they were."

So, I'm thinking that the OP may have benefitted from being phrased a bit differently, and I could have benefitted from thinking twice before responding.

Now, back OT... OK?
Holy crap.

 

[jlbraun]

@Doggy Daddy

Indeed, I was suggesting merely looking at the list and seeing if there were any CCW holders among the victims.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Pretty likely. Wouldn't that be a pittiful way to go...disarmed then executed. Thanks alot school admins!