Shooting at University of Oklahoma

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<p>[Shooting</a> at University of Oklahoma - ABC News](<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-university-oklahoma/story?id=21623743]Shooting”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-university-oklahoma/story?id=21623743)</p>

<p>What’s happening? We’re starting to see more and more of these. Prayers for families of anyone who was hurt/killed.</p>

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<p>What? </p>

<p>Another one?</p>

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<p>Contact your representatives, people. They really do listen to their constituents.</p>

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<p>Oh my heavens. This has got to stop. Just horrible.</p>

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<p>What can our representatives do?</p>

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<p>Our representatives (Congressmen and women) vote on federal legislation. My representative agrees with my gun control stance, but there are plenty around the country who don’t. If my representative didn’t agree with my stance, I would be absolutely bombarding him with email, snail mail, and anything else I could think of. And then I wouldn’t vote for him in the next election!</p>

<p>Also, contact your local assemblymen or women. They can make changes in state laws.</p>

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<p>Looks like false alarm. </p>

<p>This is why I don’t watch the news. Too much over-hyped panic.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure shooting up a campus is already against the law.</p>

<p>Anyway, yeah, they’re saying now it was a false alarm. How does that happen?</p>

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<p>Yes, AP on twitter said they can find no evidence of shots fired… thank goodness.</p>

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<p>Perhaps, someone heard a loud sound that sounded similar to a gunfire. Not taking any chances, the university directed people away from the area and had the police come in.</p>

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<p>There’s heavy construction in the area where the “shots” were reported. It’s thought that one of the machines backfired producing something that sounded like a shot. OU students are also very aware of the recent school shootings (a number of the people I was lockeddown with thought this was a Purdue copy cat crime), so someone might have called 911 to report a possible school shooter</p>

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<p>There are still quite a few helicopters and cop cars around Gould Hall (the building where the shooting was reported).</p>