# Reporter shooting in Virginia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942 "2015-08-26T13:30:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/101 "2015-08-26T23:53:34Z")
> [@Corporal\_Nobbs](#): > > You also cite the ‘Christian Science Monitor’ in one of those links, I didnt bother with the rest, he wasnt a terrorist… Your ignorance is showing. The Christian Science Moniter is a respected paper covering international affairs. We were required to subscribe in an International Affairs class at UCLA. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/102 "2015-08-27T00:08:46Z")
It’s true, which is admittedly rather strange considering what a kooky religion it is. But for some reason they established a legit newspaper nearly on par with the big ones like the New York Times and Washington Post. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/103 "2015-08-27T00:18:00Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > It’s true, which is admittedly rather strange considering what a kooky religion it is. But for some reason they established a legit newspaper nearly on par with the big ones like the New York Times and Washington Post. Couldnt agree more. They also covered parts of the world the big media ignored. The Reuters app basically does that today. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/104 "2015-08-27T00:29:13Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > From this link, the first in your list: > > Is that really a terrorist act stopped by an armed civilian? From further in the link: There were three customers, who weren’t injured in the incident, inside the liquor store. One customer, Todd Scott, returned fire from a handgun from the back of the store at Pitts, effectively saving the lives of those around him, according to Rockdale Eric Levett. “I consider him to be a hero,” said Levett about the 44-year-old Covington resident. “Although we did have a fatality at that location, he did save some other lives that were inside that business.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/105 "2015-08-27T00:51:28Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I’ve read the post above yours at least three times to see where entertainment was the motivation, but can’t find it. I’m sure you can point that out to the class though, right? im sure watching the murders was for research purposes. We can’t stop people from watching the murder videos, you can’t stop us from looking down on you for doing so. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/106 "2015-08-27T00:55:32Z")
Nice derail, gentlemen… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/107 "2015-08-27T00:58:04Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > im sure watching the murders was for research purposes. We can’t stop people from watching the murder videos, you can’t stop us from looking down on you for doing so. Aw, so no and another straw man. And for the record, I’ve never commented on watching them either. Another swing and a miss. Back to what’s really important here and not nonsense, I sincerely hope the station provides tons of counseling to the two surviving significant others. I cannot even remotely imagine being in their shoes, let alone in the instance of the fiancé who saw the whole horrific thing unfold. May they find some oblivion to get them through tonight. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/108 "2015-08-27T00:59:06Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Nice derail, gentlemen… I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/109 "2015-08-27T01:00:22Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > im sure watching the murders was for research purposes. We can’t stop people from watching the murder videos, you can’t stop us from looking down on you for doing so. So far I have been stopped, and I am not happy about it. :mad: ETA: To clarify, I have seen the live TV report. I want to see the shooter’s video. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/110 "2015-08-27T01:31:18Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > So far I have been stopped, and I am not happy about it. :mad: > > ETA: To clarify, I have seen the live TV report. I want to see the shooter’s video. Here [http://www.infowars.com/graphic-shocking-complete-video-shot-from-virginia-gunmans-point-of-view/](http://www.infowars.com/graphic-shocking-complete-video-shot-from-virginia-gunmans-point-of-view/) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/111 "2015-08-27T01:57:37Z")
Thank you! Wowwww…that is some crazy shit :eek: I can’t believe even the interviewee didn’t notice the guy standing there brandishing his gun. So bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/112 "2015-08-27T02:10:01Z")
As a proud “gun grabber,” I’ll say it again: I will always vote for any gun-control measure, and the stricter the better. And if taking away people’s guns means prying them out of their cold, dead hands, I have no problem with that. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/113 "2015-08-27T02:18:10Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNW3kCVVEAAIhJS.png) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNW3kCVVEAAIhJS.png) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/114 "2015-08-27T02:23:09Z")
Oh jeez…trying to gin up a race war because of the comments of a few idiots? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/115 "2015-08-27T02:23:29Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > : > > I can’t believe even the interviewee didn’t notice the guy standing there brandishing his gun. So bizarre. That’s the part that I just can’t get over. I know how you can get focused on a task but still ----- that is just totally strange. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/116 "2015-08-27T02:23:53Z")
> [@Corporal\_Nobbs](#): > > I am entitled to an opinion, I presume you think that US gun laws are fine (Two young idiots have just been prevented shooting up a Pokemon convention, great that) Crack on mate. Darwinism in action. So, to be clear. Your contention, then, is the 2011 killings in Norway were “Darwinism in Action”? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/117 "2015-08-27T02:31:51Z")
> [@Corporal\_Nobbs](#): > > You also cite the ‘Christian Science Monitor’ in one of those links, I didnt bother with the rest, he wasnt a terrorist… [For your edification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Science_Monitor): > [@](#): > > Despite its name, the Monitor does not claim to be a religious-themed paper, and says it does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. & [quote] Monitor staff have been the recipients of seven Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2002. [ul][li]1950, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: Edmund Stevens, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, “This Is Russia Uncensored.”[8][/li][li]1967, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: R. John Hughes, For his thorough reporting of Indonesia’s attempted Transition to the New Order in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965–66.[9][/li][li]1968, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Howard James, for his series of articles, Crisis in the Courts.[10][/li][li]1969, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Robert Cahn, for his inquiry into the future of our national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them.[11][/li][li]1978, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Journalism: Richard Strout, for distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic.[12][/li][li]1996, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: David Rohde, for his persistent on-site reporting of the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica Genocide.[13][/li][li]2002, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning: Clay Bennett[14][/ul][/li][/quote] I left the footnote numbers in the latter quotation. Now that you’ve been schooled–twice, mind you–on the credibility of _The Christian Science Monitor_, do you wish to, say, modify your comment? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/118 "2015-08-27T02:32:54Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > That’s the part that I just can’t get over. I know how you can get focused on a task but still ----- that is just totally strange. I wonder if it’s like in regular stage acting? You’re not supposed to let anything break you from playing your character. Perhaps similarly, they were so focused on not wasting a take (for whatever reason), they simply weren’t paying attention to any of their other surroundings. I mean, think about reporters doing interviews in front of hoards of screaming, rowdy kids (like at a concert, say) and that would have to be a talent you’d need to develop. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/119 "2015-08-27T02:37:27Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I wonder if it’s like in regular stage acting? You’re not supposed to let anything break you from playing your character. Perhaps similarly, they were so focused on not wasting a take (for whatever reason), they simply weren’t paying attention to any of their other surroundings. I mean, think about reporters doing interviews in front of hoards of screaming, rowdy kids (like at a concert, say) and that would have to be a talent you’d need to develop. That might explain the reporter, but it’s odd the interviewee failed to notice anything. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942/120 "2015-08-27T02:39:21Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Here > > [http://www.infowars.com/graphic-shocking-complete-video-shot-from-virginia-gunmans-point-of-view/](http://www.infowars.com/graphic-shocking-complete-video-shot-from-virginia-gunmans-point-of-view/) Also available on LiveLeak. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-shooting-in-virginia/728942.md?page=7)