A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed in a shooting on campus that sent the school into a lockdown, just one week after classes started. NBC News’ Ali Vitali reports the latest.
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#UNC #ChapelHill #NorthCarolina
If only he had a 50. Cal and spartan plate carrier…..so tragic.
(#team homeschooling)Ok USA, school shootings every week is crazy. End school if you can’t pay to protect innocent schools. Armed guards are mandatory at schools. This is not a monthly occurrence its literally weekly. Do better US. If school owners can’t afford armed guards they shouldn’t be allowed to open. The US act all high and mighty but wont protect kids from school shooting. Ive had enough of this evil world and these evil people. smh
One of my takecare who cares for ky granny. Come from my country. (I was born in usa, btw) Due to visa and studies. Want to be in nursing home systems. Anyways. She said our country is poor and not the best. But at least our childern go to school peaceful and not come home with body bag. Imagine that… poor country. Vs a super power.
How are those gun free zones working? He must not have the sign.
Just another “normal” and “regular” school shooting in America folks. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For people that deal with anxiety, your best resource for not having an anxiety attack is your own breath. If your mind takes you down a path of fearfulness…causing your heartbeat to drum at a higher rate, make an effort to breath deeper alternating deep breaths with rapid breaths, try shutting out any fear mongering and go into fight mode, draw on the strength of all the rough times that got you to where you are today and let your potential to make the world a better place guide your thoughts into a state of positive epiphanies, and keep cycling through thoughts of good visualizations, until your rapid heartrate returns to it’snormal pace, and say to yourself, I will survive this.
How is your fight or flight mode? I took notice of people in the comments being insensitive to people who seem traumatized by the Campus shooting. For people who tend to face chaos regularly, you may be desensitized by the shooting that transpired on your College Campus, so your fight or flight mode may have better prepared you for various tactics on how to survive, including being apt to seek legalization for College Faculty and Student open carry permits, just keep in mind that the probability of College Campus shootings increase, with the amount of Guns allowed on Campus… it’s just more logical to look for an opportunity to relocate to a safer place. Another resource for mental preparedness in live shooter environments is the knowledged acquired, from Combat Training, it’s important to learn conflict resolution and how to look for the right moment to get the upperhand, it definitely beats knowledge only acquired from only surviving petty campus bullies. A shooting taking place too close to consider a non threat could be more traumatizing for people who deal with nothing other than the local bully, since even vetted Soldiers can experience fear and anxiety, if they feel they haven’t been properly trained for a situation that is unpredictable and too spontaneous to have thought of a clear route of escape,. In addition it may be a good idea to find some sense of security that gives you bravado, so that in dangerous situations you don’t become overwrought with feelings of weakness and vulnerability, in a fight or flight situation, you don’t want to sabatage yourself, becoming your own energy vampire, maybe carry Pepper spray on your keychain, to give you a sense of defense against a probable threat.
For people with serious anxieties, it could feel like you’re alone in the world, but you’re not alone, you could face a lot of situations that you wish you didn’t have to face alone, but you do so because it becomes irritating to befriend people that can’t seem to reach emotional maturity…which conflicts with your sensitive and nonviolent nature. Keep in mind that emotional maturity comes from either learning from the best spiritual gurus (like the Spiritual auther Linda Goodman), injuries or other traumatic experiences that allow eye opening spiritual enlightenment, from being still and isolated long enough for the mind to opens up to a wider visual of the big picture, instead of the one diminsional picture of ones own selfish personal agenda… sometimes enlightenment comes with living in a way that both benefits you and serves the well being of others too.
If your’ve gotten this far, thanks for reading. I sympathise with your afterthoughts your Campus shooting and I regret that the mental preparedness of how to avoid being shot, in an active shooter environment, now has to be in the back of your minds, I know a situation like this could leave a person feeling helpless to come up with a resolution to prevent it from happening again, however, between right this very moment and the time it takes, for you to come up with a resolution, please, in your spare time, crack open a book on Human Design, look into videos on how to exercise without inflicting self injury, start a Decentralized Currency watchdog group, reporting busenisses that are out to scam people, or check on whether or not CEF (The Chapel Hill Community Empowerment Fund), is in need of volunteers….once again, thanks for reading and take care of yourselves.
Isn’t America tired of reporting on mass shootings or active shooters or a shooting in general?😑
School just started … are you kidding me? Being on lockdown was way better for me.. now I have to manage even more anxiety & PTSD just thinking “what if” … this isn’t a way for us to live. We shouldn’t fear going to school.
And to think they have a anti-hate bill and we ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿the ones that need it but don’t have one. This is America huh
G..S..A. (The gun states of America)
Horrible my condolences
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
So many condolences on a daily basis. .
welcome to the beginning of WORLD WAR Z, THE APOCALYPSE, THE PURGE ALL IN ONE AT ONE TIME! 🤷🏽♀️🤦🏾♀️🤣 GET READY 💪🏼
Gun free zone.. someone missed the memo😢
This generation of young people, growing up literally under the gun and then some—the multiple traumas they’ve witnessed leave me near speechless.
I still do not understand why guns are still being sold to anyone! Nobody needs guns. It is that simple!
YOU many not need one, but you have no business telling the rest of us we don’t need one.
Uh, no. Guns cant be sold to anyone, guns can only be sold to law abiding citizens. Felons are forbidden from aquiring then.
And yes, we have had background checks since the 90’s that have been incredibly effective at preventing giving firearms to people who should not have them.
Would he have down that in Asia? No. They would have killed him and his family on the spot
and so it begins…this time on a college campus vs. an elementary/high school….beginning of the academic year…and so it begins AGAIN!….this country has a serious problem
A well organized militia strike again.
My condolences. This happened in part due to liberal US gun laws. There are far less shootings e. g. in Europe and probably in any other place of the world.
To ppl really react to every law or do they pick & choose? No excuse for Evil
@sarah kelly I didn’t say that the shooter hasn’t done a horrible deed. Yet I don’t think that people e. g. in Europe have on average less bad character traits or are less aggressive, but there are less shootings in Europe than in the US nonetheless.
Death penalty, please.
*Deportation of the white American needs to be brought to the table*
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Life in Red states. The people in these states must really enjoy the ‘thoughts and prayers’ their politicians give them. They must. They keep reelecting the people who insist on making it possible for this to be what it has become. Go RePUGliKLANs!!!
Send him back to China! He was probably a Chinese spy.
So this is not a mass shooting. But it looks personal…
Scary
Stop Forgiving College Loans. Focus on Americans mental and physical health.
guns guns guns
The Fall semester JUST started smfh…
What happened, he got a bad grade? I blame his tiger mom
Only in America
Faculty member made fun of him for studying in Wuhan.
Just murican things
School starts and so does the mass shootings smh
Crazy that the race of the two people involved hasn’t been mentioned. Guess it doesn’t fit the narrative media likes to push
What is the narrative little man? Do tell us.
Zijie Yan sadly died. Both Chinese.
How and Why~?? White racism and disrespecting a minority most likely smarter than you.
It takes a lot for an Asian to give up their future to teach some ignorant white racist with a job title a lesson on humility. Professor must’ve been a really bad person or did sth really bad.
Chinese professor and Chinese student. Professor has been in the U.S. since at least 2010 but could be much earlier as this just based on research papers. Students who had the professor didn’t see any major problems with him and mourned his loss.
There is so much wrong with what you said
Just making things up, typical Democrat.
ONLY IN MURICA! 🫠🤢🤮😡
Come on now people. It’s Millennials and Gen Z that is causing all the chaos in our country. There are a few good ones out there though.
Really? Looked like a bunch of fecking Boomers trying to overthrow the govt on Jan 6th.
Democrat ran city in a democrat state😂
Remember the shooter in Florida tried to enter a College campus 1st!
Ужасная страна 👎 для всего мира
Very bad gun culture in USA. Why government of USA not ban arm law to prevent guns to buy in open market. High number of student dies due to shootings in America. Sorry to say but this is downside of USA & not safe place to live.
Because banning guns results in more death and less freedom. Banning guns does not save life.
Why?
Mexico is safer than schools in the United States
Cool, when do you move?
No gun control
Would be nice
The new America 🇺🇸 we live in
I wonder how many incoming students are veterans of active shooter on campus protocol. This is American school life 21st century….
Does this count as a school shooting ? Or a murder ?
Only one person was targeted and only person died. Murder.
Again. Not black. I am seeing a pattern
You have your RACIST RHETORIC TO BLAME!!! This is what loose gun laws and racial tensions produce. Its not just black and white its all of us. And if we didnt have these bull$hit racial constructs so white folk can feel superior, well we’d be all the better without the labels. One world one species. Human. We have different languages, different cultures but we share common DNA. Last i checked the differences between us are 0.007%. We have more in common with apes than differences between humanity as a whole. Think about it.
You’re deluded. What racial constructs so white people feel superior lol? We’re the only ones who it’s ok to be racist to. You’re seriously just brainwashed hard.
It’s two CHINESE?!! God, these godless communists should never have been allowed into our country. It certainly does not work the other way around, anywhere in Asia. Americans have NO civil and property rights, in any country in Asia, including our “ally” Taiwan. Why not? Why isn’t all permanent residency and property rights RECIPROCAL?
The media is calling him a “mostly White Asian male” . The news is your enemy and you don’t even know it.
Once all together friends to the end somebody got the big idea to alienate and separate now they have a problem around the world they turned the best of friends to enemies not think about that a reader at in your history books my girls my boys😅
As long as public education exists then school shootings will happen.
My cousins class was 3 minutes away from the shooter, I’m so happy she’s ok.
The USA is eating itself alive. Greed is the monster that has eaten the US’s soul.
Politicians are bought by greedy Corporations that deny us Universal Health Care, that every other industrialized country has, and the gun lobby makes sure that we sell guns to to mentally ill people who can’t afford to get help.
Selling guns to mentally ill people is against the law. And universal healthcare sucks. US puts more money into social healthcare then any nation in the entire world. I’m from a “free” (high taxes) healthcare nations and the healthcare is just bad. Anything like that run by the government is just bad.
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America
Was this a targeted attack? Did he have a grudge against this particular professor?
That’s 3 shooting already started Friday on.😢
My condolences to the families.
How can Life mean so little to these shooters.
Wow, what a way to start a semester
It may be just because I’m younger (25), but when Lester said that “we’ll never get used to the sight of this”, I feel different because I’m completely used to this
Same here at 23. I remember making plans during lunch at high school for what we’d do in each room if there was an active shooter. It’s just a part of growing up these days
@KamaKaji Growing up in the US. It seems no other country has so many shootings.
@Dragumix yeah it’s absolutely a uniquely American experience
There are no coincidences
Aaian shooter with a handgun? Must be the gun and they’ll be no manifesto
Who was it?!
Sum ting wong yu dishono famirrry
Stop the Asian on Asian killings 💯 🙏🏿
29 years ago – almost to the day – my favorite professor: Dr. Chen Liang was gunned down by a graduate student that he was instructing for Masters in San Diego State University.
It was just as disturbing to me then, as it is now. Condolences to the family of the slain Professor. Nobody is safe from gun violence in our country.
Guns aren’t the problem. God bless the 2nd Amendment
USless
Unusual suspect
90% of shootings and mass shootings come from White Men. Cope harder
Where is the fat cop with his trusty ar-15 standing at the corner eating his huge hamburger . I want the photo NOW 😎🤓🥸
So there’s an open faculty position? Which field?
The media is disappointed that it wasn’t a MAGA hat wearing white guy, this will be dropped quickly, and they will move on to something else.
Which faculty member? Was the shooter a student? Its only been a week.
Possible Haitian Male???
OR
Asian Male🤔
Vote Blue and protest. Republicans are stock piling guns
As a citizen of the world, I’m concerned about the human rights and mass killings in america, world’s most hypocrite country.
So sad!
Who are these Chinese men in this country now, poisoning, driving into crowds, shooting in OUR colleges. Get them out. This is becoming another phenomenon of HATE. Who’s hating who here. I see asian men causing these hateful acts too. Everyone has enough blame to go around!
Isn’t Chapel Hill the place where they developed COVID? Chapel hill purchased the patent a year before covid was released. You will have more disasters, Chapel Hill.
Joe Biden didn’t say nothing about this remember when you vote next year
At least it was not a mass shooting.
Chinese steal secret, then now they shoot Americans,
This guy is from China, but he shot the professor… who is also Chinese from China….. read the news…
Well the death penalty isn’t instant so this will continue..thanks government
Hahh..
Guess what? There going to want to lock us all back up too because you know election time only way Biden can win >.>
Thank god my wife teaches mostky women.
conservative gun culture on display
Ah, another second amendment event.
I bet you guys are sad that you can’t call it racism because the shooter is asian
I was wondering why this disappeared in fake news…asian shooter….cant play the white supremacist drum.
Not a Mass shooting
Democrats don’t want you to know what REALLY happened here at UNC.
please enlighten us
@Roy Harper made in China
This song is entirely too relevant for today.
Read Ezekiel 36:16-38. Study the relevance of God’s Word and how it relates to the present madness going on in our country. God’s Word is living and active (Hebrews 4:12-13).
Instead of fixating on the “right to bear arms” which bears bad fruit that rots and decays the soul…we need to:
*Fix our eyes upon Jesus
*Bear the good and life-sustaining Fruit of the Holy Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-25…
*22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forebearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self- control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit”.
You want to “fixate” on something…how about life, living, honoring God with our life/breath/being? How’s that thought for you?
Wake up America! We are living zombies masquerading as human beings! Since when did we become so desensitized to the loss of human life that we feel no remorse, no regret, no sense of urgency to protect human life?
Every life matters to God and He does not want anyone to perish. The devil does not want you to hear what I am about to say. Only the Blood of Jesus Christ can wash away the stains of our will (our choices).
Time for the Refiners Fire, Launderer’s Soap, an all Consuming Fire (GOD) to refine and purify us like gold and silver.
Time to stop eliminating our present and future and protect what life still exists before we push ourselves past the point of no return!
Can I get an Amen?
May God have mercy on our souls. May we repent, forsake and renounce our wicked ways! Our weapons (true Believers-John 4:23-24)= hands lifted high in worship praising a Holy God! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
😵💫”STAY AFRAID, STAY AFRAID, STAY AFRAID, STAY AFRAID”😵💫
Chinese Spy