Don't make personal attacks. Control the pottymouth. Try not to have sex in the hallways and scare the newbies.

However.

There is a New Rule for posting here at Argghhh!. The shooter at Virginia Tech has been identified.

Ch0 Seung-H* (mutilation done deliberately) has been identified as the shooter. He was a undergraduate senior English major at Virginia Tech, living on campus as a student, here as a resident alien. His status and ethnicity are not important, really. As modified by local laws, a lawful resident alien who has been living in the state for over 90 days may purchase firearms.

This is the *last* time that name will get mentioned on this blog. You want to talk about him, fine. You want to name victims/heroes and talk about them, fine. For the shooter, let him be nameless, let his visage fade, may his memory flicker and die, except as a case study in campus security. I do not wish this space to contribute to this hapless dolt's Googlefame. All the good he may have done in his life up to yesterday was erased as he repeately pulled the trigger, swapped magazines, and snuffed out innocent lives. Taking his own life, while a convenience to the state, did not, in my mind, erase the act.

Celebrate and name the killed, not the killer.

That's all.

Update: Not, it's not all. The Washington Post has some portraits of the slain up. The names are links.

Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Ryan Clark, G.V. Loganathan, Ross Abdallah Alameddine, Emily Jane Hilscher, Mary Karen Read, Daniel Perez Cueva..

May their names swarm the shooter's and bury it.

Another Update: Speaking of names and of the dark side of the internet's speed of spread of misinformation and well as information - let it be known, far and wide, that Wayne Chiang, asian by heritage and a fellow-traveling gun-nut, is *not* the shooter. I say again, *not* the shooter. Note to self - tomorrow, check to see if US media is reporting that - not just the Australian. -the Armorer