Appreciate the update

What's next -- rage and snarky posts from gun "enthusiasts" after another (futile) call for non-bloodthirsty, common-sense gun regulations!?

World is full of surprises, I tell ya...

Said this doesn't happen at school's where god is present!

In a somewhat gallows way.

Pretty normal given our lines of work

And thanks to that heroic student!

It could have been so much worse.

Hope it stays that way.

Just remember that if the old "shock" at such news starts to return...

basis very soon.

It is what gun people want, must be, otherwise they would be like me

SCREAMING to get rid of the god damn GUNS!

Our COUNTRY is very very sick.

The fact that we can do NOTHING while innocents are killed is beyond surreal.

We CHOOSE to do none of them.

That's the tragedy.

I know it's true because people keep telling me that.

shooting began at the Otto Miller Hall, the Math, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, and Science building.

One of the shooters has been taken to Harborview, along with the six other victims.

Witness is saying that the some of the people (who she knows) were running from the back of the building, where senior engineering students were working.

Seems to be up to seven shot, one critical.

the lone shooter was injured and has been transported to Harborview.

Details are now becoming confusing, as usual in an incident such as this.

They're saying that there were actually only four victims...one man and one woman in stable condition, one man and one woman with life-threatening injuries. This reported by Harborview spokesman.

One witness says that she saw a man dead on the floor in the hall. Lying face down in a pool of blood. She's not positive that he was dead, but he was not moving.

My kid is at school at SPU, locked down in room. Neighborhood kids attend UCSB, a bit off right now, my kid is fine, but some other families just had their world explode.

Parents try and ensure that their kids receive a good education, but also have to worry about some fanatic mowing them down, anywhere, anytime. The victims of today's gun violence were apparently engineering students, seniors preparing for graduation.

I'm glad to hear that your child is safe, but as you've stated, other families must now struggle thru an unnecessary tragedy. Fear.

Preparing for finals.

Hadn't heard about the engineering students.

The school is a tiny campus in the middle of a neighborhood, just north of Downtown.

She called in and was giving her account on KOMO. She knew many of the people who were running away from the gunfire, but was not on the same floor when it began (shooting happened on the second floor, she was on the first). Two of the victims were students that she knew well, they tried to give aid to the injured before they were brought downstairs, while swat searched the building. One may have been faculty, but she couldn't see his face.

Harborview is now saying that they're expecting another victim to arrive there and King County Jail seems to be processing a suspect.

All details taken with grain of salt, til the actual report is released. Press conference coming up soon.

I did know SPU fairly well, from years ago when I lived down there; I had a couple of friends who attended and graduated. It was a nice little school back then.

daughter it can happen anywhere, and next time would be somewhere else. Sad to say next time is here already. And, yes, this shit is getting old.

the injuries must be pretty traumatic since that is the main trauma hospital and is downtown

Gunshot wounds are generally traumatic by their very nature.

Another sad example of how we have fallen. Why can't victims of gun violence start filing lawsuits against the gun manufacturers and NRA? It's how we finally toppled big tobacco.

The first billion dollar judgment against the NRA or Glock will go a long way.

because now that would be bad. can you imagine how horrible it would have been if sandy hook and other shootings was because of the taliban guys ?

It'd be pretty hard for any of them to get into the US, don't you think?i

people worrying about something that has little chance of happening while people are being killed everyday already by others with guns and nothing is done about it.

It's time the home grown terrorists who access weapons are reined in.

I get your sarcasm - this shit has to be stopped!
There you have Fox and ReTHUGs frightening people non-stop about the Taliban and Muslims while 'good Xtian white boys' (the vast majority of shooters) are slaughtering people's children on college campuses, in schools, in cinemas, malls, etc. This is madness.

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lets pray it's not one of the taliban guys that were released
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and attention towards those taliban guys and how they could threaten us.

all the while we get these shootings that happen everyday in this country including the mass shootings and nothing is done to try to prevent them.

and i include the media in all of this also .

I'm more worried about our own home grown killers than the taliban right now.

It is becoming a weekly occurrence in this country. When will our government finally say enough and do something about the gun situation in this society.

FREEDOM!!

I'm relieved no one has died this time.

I wanted to hope this one time everyone would make it alive.

and they're reporting that she's in surgery right now. Two other young men are said to be in satisfactory condition.

They're speculating that the gunman used a shotgun, but nothing is confirmed. A student monitor disarmed him while he was attempting to reload.

I always want to hope that it will never happen again, but instead, it's becoming an all-too-frequent occurrence.

Another shooting, a few more dead people, a few dozen peoples lives destroyed, again. Over and over again.

Either there's going to be a breaking point, or people will become numb.

Wow. Imagine getting the best of a shooter because he didn't have unlimited continuous firepower like guaranteed in the Constitution!

I can't take much comfort from that but it does make a point.

God, this is terrible. I know people who went there. I hate this. I can't think of anything else to say but that I hate this.

it is so sad to me that this is just an accepted part of american lifestyle now. the mass shooting has simply become part of the culture. we make the shooters famous and they are more than happy to go out in a blaze of glory.

Absolutely horrible. And you know what stopped the bad guy with a gun? A good guy with pepper spray.

One person has died, and another is in critical condition. 2 others are also injured.

He was tackled by security. God, I am so tired. I've been in that hall and I've been on that campus and I am sick to death of this.

All of this damn gun violence and these mass shootings are a plague on this nation. You never know when you or someone you know might get gunned down by a lunatic with a gun.

Bravo to the security guard by the way

And yes, bravo!

A lowly student building-monitor has prevented even more carnage by stepping into the middle of a shotgun assault with a simple can of Pepper Spray.

I sure hope that this is one detail that the reporters and eye-witnesses have NOT gotten wrong.

HE WAS STOPPED WHEN HE HAD TO RELOAD. The kid didn't have a gun, and he didn't have a giant magazine full of bullets.

EFUGGING nough!

Give thanks for that pepper spray

Too many lost to too much violence.

Let me try to name the shooting incidents within the past 6 or so months:
- the Navy yard shooting
- Fort Hood
- Santa Barbara
- LAX
- the Jewish Community Center near Kansas City
- Arapahoe High School

No one deserves this shit.

No more fucking gunz!!! Enough already!!!

It's the price we pay for guns in a free society.

according to the gun nutters there would be less dead when armed kids were all doing counterfire in a closed building with no one knowing who is good guy and who is bad..