The sound of gunfire
One of the comments I heard was that no one present a VT seemed to recognize the sound of gunfire. While it was heard in adjacent rooms it was thought to be something else. In the drill at our local school(using blanks) the same comments were made by the teachers. Dispite being from an area of the country in which most families hunt none of the teachers recognized the sound of gunfire and dismissed it as something else. That somewhat confuses me because Police in many areas often receive reports of gunfire which usually turn out to be something else. Human nature seems to be to investigate sounds that we do not recognize yet it seems to be wholey ignored in situations such as this. One has to wonder if it is because of the "gun free zone" stigma that a false sense of security is assumed causing people to lose their awareness of possible threats and becoming part of the problem rather than the solution.
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Gunfire is definetly an unmistakable sound IF the gun is fired outdoors, and your outdoors. With all of the walls in the building the sound had to travel through, I can see how it could be confused with other noises. If he would have had a silencer, it might still be going on. 0 -
Walls tend to muffle and distort the sound..... 0 -
What do you expect of kids not ever allowed to play Cowboys and Native
Americans or with cap weapons?[:D]0 -
[8D]-Didn't it used to be "Cowboys and Indians"---
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I heard interviews with two student who were inside the classrooms that got shot up. They both said that they initially thought the shots were construction sounds. Then they realized that it was gunshots.
Nobody got up and did anything.
What a bunch of passive kids.0 -
It's just human nature to asume the most likely explanation for things we hear. A loug bang (distorted by walls) in a university setting would most likely be caused by some sort of construction or repair work. So our brain recognizes it as such. We are not expecting gunfire in such a situation so gunfire is not our first thought. 0 -
I can tell you this - ALL of my kids recognize the sound of gunfire, inside or outside - and ALL of my kids go toward it.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
I can tell you this - ALL of my kids recognize the sound of gunfire, inside or outside - and ALL of my kids go toward it.
Doug
All of your kids go toward gunfire?0 -
Yep.
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They would have made good Civil War soldiers. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cartod
They would have made good Civil War soldiers.
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The Boys make outstanding Soldiers, now.
Do0 -
...I may be wrong, but I think the point is that "apparantly" none of these kids were ever around firearms/shooting much.
...Regardless of where these kid's were, mall, street, wherever; if they had been aware of what gunshot's sounded like it would/should not have taken their brains long to have recognized the sounds for what they were, maybe some did?...[;)]
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There is construction immediately behind Norris Hall on the VT campus. This combined with the sound distortion of a gun fired indoors might have made anyone (combat or LEO veterans excepted) disregard gunfire as construction noise. 0 -
Yep, 2 X 4's being stacked up sounds like gun fire. 0
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