Any person Care to Chime in on Today's ODU Shooting of a Professor?
It's being reported the professor was shot because he was teaching an ROTC class; see [link](https://abcnews.com/US/police-respond-active-incident-dominion-university-virginia/story?id=131002472)
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I'm against it.
I’m with you, stankylegdunkface. Killing is wrong and bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes, killing is badong.
I too would like to state publicly that I'm against professors getting shot.
Bold stance.
I'm a professor at ODU and was on campus today during the shooting. It isn't clear that the shooter was even a student at this point. Especially with their previous terrorism charge, this whole situation is very strange.
FBI is investigating this.
They were. They were previously enrolled in that ROTC back in 2010ish.
I graduated from ODU in the Navy ROTC program, the professors for the ROTC courses (typically 1 credit for a drill and 3 credits per semester for a military related course) are active duty or reserve officers on shore duty also working on a masters degree.
Thanks for the info; all the professors I've met have been retired, but my program was not exactly close to any bases, unlike ODU.
I hadn't heard about it. I've been focused on the synagogue attack in Michigan.
Jesus how can anyone feel safe in the US? Or maybe I'm just looking at this without appreciating risk, a bit like the people who look at Australia as country of everything wants to kill you.
B'h, no one except the attacker was hurt. It's scary as hell, regardless.
"students stepped in to subdue and kill the suspect, officials said" I'm proud of these students for making sure this doesn't happen again. Shit.
Will you add something yourself? Did you just want this to be acknowledged here?
Only that this seems to be a specific targeting of a professor. It is yet unclear if the shooter knew the professor personally or only knew what he taught. Whenever there is a shooting on campus, especially when a professor is targeted, the conversation tends to make its way t...
Call me a cynic but comparing this with past instances, is it just coincidence that this campus shooting seems to have generated relatively little outrage and concern up in here? Is it considered bad form to criticize a campus shooting when the profile of the shooter and the ...
What are you upset about? You’re outraged there’s not enough outrage?
We should be. I would wager that to a degree it is lost in the sheer number of awful things happening it feels like all at once: the war that is not a war, the ongoing issues associated with having glorified sewer rats running the country, ongoing ICE kidnappings, the attack...
yeh we should be more outraged.... every school and campus shooting should cause national changes.. but we're all probably a little numb from all the white pride homegrown terrorists that have been shooting up our campuses for decades without anything changing. So we go on.
It's hard to keep up with all the recent shootings. In Toronto, a synagogue and the US consulate.
Exactly. Since this one was one a university and killed a professor, I brought it up here in the subreddit for professors....
I'm glad those ROTC kids were able to subdue the attacker with just a knife - I'm not so confident in my ability to do the same. It will be interesting optics when the VA governor signs the recently passed bill banning concealed carry at public college campuses. I'm pretty gla...
Can someone explain the ROTC thing to me? I googled and get that it is training people to be officers while getting a degree, but how does that work on a college campus? Is this common?
Many US colleges and universities have ROTC programs, in theory to make sure the US military has a steady supply of educated people serving as officers. If you attend school on an ROTC scholarship, you're obligated to a number of years of military service. And the college stud...
Yes it is common. The students take classes specific to preparing for military service. Universities have partnerships with branches of the military to prepare officers for service in that branch of the military.
Pretty common. The program pays the student’s tuition in return for a few years of service. It’s long been a way for working class students to afford college and get a good job when they get out of the military. I’ve taught these students for years and am grateful for the...
If one wants a campus to be secure enough to prevent unauthorized people from walking on to campus without a firearm it would have to be locked down like a prison or Disneyland.
There's a kind of irony in the synagogue attack resulting in no fatalities by having an armed security force on site. Many religious sites of many faiths have security now. Imagine recommending campuses have more security with a more robust response.
I mean, it was a targeted attack against ROTC, not a professor. It's not ok, but it's not an attack on academia.
Reports say that the PROFESSOR was shot by the attacker. The professor died from his injuries. Are you saying its okay to murder a professor so long as the intent was to target the area they were in? I'm not sure that's a very good precedent to support....
What is ODU?
Old Dominion University
Violence is bad, ok.