Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Colleges Across US Hit with Shooting Hoaxes

At least a half-dozen universities across the country welcomed students to first-day-of-fall classes Monday with run-and-hide warnings about possible gunmen on campus. In almost all the cases, the reports were hoaxes or swatting calls. A few campuses said simply that no evidence of a gunman or violence was found. Students at the University of Arkansas, University of Colorado Boulder, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, the University of New Hampshire and Northern Arizona University, were terrorized by the false alarms. The University of South Carolina received two reports of an active shooter at Thomas Cooper Library in Columbia on Sunday night, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga received a hoax active shooter call on August 21 and Villanova University near Philadelphia received two false active shooter reports during freshman orientation last week.

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"How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in t!" This is America now thanks to the mass proliferation of firearms, a growing tradition of mass shootings, and lunatics creating havoc by "swatting." This year two serial "swatters" who delighted in terrorizing people and wasting taxpayer resources were sentenced to prison. Links: Swatting Maniac in California; Swatting Maniac in Romania.

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Trumpers trying to keep people stupid.

#1 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-08-26 10:16 AM

Trumpers trying to keep people stupid.

Good point. I was looking at psychological factors.

Moreover, life is hard enough for American college students, but foreign students continue coming to the US.

"More international students lose their lives in the US than we know." Link: gobserver.net

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-26 10:37 PM

For many years the shooting from the tower at the University of Texas campus was a shocking reminder about firearms in this country. Many were especially shocked that mass murder would be committed on a college campus. Now, that incident is in the dustbin of history, because shootings at schools and colleges are now so common.

Maybe the whole MAGA thingy means going back to a time when not so many people had access to firearms, and the NRA was in favor of gun control, and Americans could walk about without fear of being shot at random because it was hard to get a gun. Naw--MAGA just means more power for white folks...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-27 03:54 PM

Online extremist group claims credit for the mayhem: drudge.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-28 05:52 AM

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