FLASHBACK: VT student implores officials to allow self-defense; gets rebuffed
12:15am Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The April 16 massacre wasn't the first shooting scare at Virginia Tech this college year. Nor are emerging questions over whether or not students should be allowed to bear arms for self-defense new. In August of 2006, an escaped jail inmate shot and killed a deputy sheriff and an unarmed security guard at a nearby hospital before the police caught him in the woods near the university. On August...