North Lake College shooting: Victim and suspect dead, police say

[shenmue]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/us/texas-north-lake-college-gunfire/index.html

[TexasTowelie]

1. I used to live within a half-mile of the campus

and it was my voting precinct.

[kimbutgar]

2. Mmmm another shooting on a college campus campus beacause guns are now allowed on campus

If I had a college age kid I would not send them to a college that allows guns on campus.

Everyday now some crazy peraon shooting up people in America.

[TexasTowelie]

3. That eliminates every public university and college in Texas.

I don't believe that it is much safer at the private universities in Texas. Remember that it is near the end of the semester so the shooter may have been stressed out about assignments or final exams.

The campus also serves as one of the major hubs in Irving for the DART bus and rail lines so the lock down most likely had some impact for commuters in the area.

[malaise]

4. Yep

I've never seen anything so stupid. Bravo NRA

[linuxman]

8. Oh jeez

I'm sure the murderer wouldn't go "Oh shit, I can't commit TWO crimes!"

[JoeStuckInOH]

5. Reads like it might be a domestic/relationship kind of targeted attack. nt

[shenmue]

6. Yes

[JoeStuckInOH]

7. If so, this might be a case where guns easily-at-hand played a huge role.

Mass shootings take planning and a sick determination/premeditation... most gun laws, permissive or not, are not going to curb true mass shootings.

Crimes of passion, like this kind of feels it might be, are largely influenced by weapons immediately at hand. Someone whose feelings are hurt but doesn't have a gun-in-hand already is probably unlikely to maintain the resolve to kill someone else after the time that would have been necessary to acquire a gun through legal means. Simply put... taking several steps and a few hours (or even days) in order to kill someone takes a helluva lot more commitment than simply going off half-cocked because a gun was already in your waistband.