# Shooting on The University of Texas campus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350 "2010-09-28T14:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/21 "2010-09-29T15:01:36Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > Or maybe he was all set to massacre and couldn’t bring himself to actually shoot flesh and blood people, to take anyone else with him. > > I can try to believe in the innate goodness of humans. Didn’t save him from himself, meanwhile. ☹ Works for me. BTW, your prof sounds like a dick… I teach in the afternoons, so I wouldn’t have been in class at the time. But I don’t have a problem with people using technology in class, as long as there isn’t a lot of racket and they’re discreet. I’d be thankful that the student was actually, you know, sharing information that could save lives, rather than making a point about the evils of checking your texts in class. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/22 "2010-09-29T21:54:13Z")
I for one am morbidly curious about his motives and hope with all my evil little soul that there’s a note somewhere in his room … ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/23 "2010-09-30T13:00:40Z")
I kind of feel bad for him. He was brilliant, quiet and came from a good family. He had the world by the, ahem… Yet he chooses to die like a coward. I personally don’t think he was a murderer. He was just a quiet guy dying to be something he was not, an attention whore. I think he felt invisable and wanted to be visable. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/24 "2010-09-30T14:56:36Z")
At least he didn’t climb the Tower. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/25 "2010-09-30T15:13:53Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I for one am morbidly curious about his motives … Same here. His teachers described him as brilliant, meticulous, respectful. By all accounts from those who knew him well he was the last person you’d ever imagine would act out in such an agressive and public manner. Furthermore, what’s strange is that not only is it out of character but, like you say, the act itself made no sense. The whole thing’s just a real headscratcher. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/26 "2010-09-30T17:59:17Z")
[Here’s](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5630570) a classy move by a Sooner football player. ---
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350/27 "2010-10-01T03:42:00Z")
[Here](http://www.statesman.com/opinion/palaima-u-s-gun-laws-allow-normal-day-942601.html) is an op-ed by a colleague of mine, who was there (and is also interested in war and violence studies). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-on-the-university-of-texas-campus/555350.md?page=1)