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The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 18, 2007; 6:13 PM

BOULDER, Colo. -- A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.

During a class discussion Tuesday of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, Max Karson "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said. everal witnesses told investigators Karson, who turns 22 on Thursday, said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.

Karson, of Denver, was arrested Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with staff, faculty or students of an education institution.

His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.

"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.

University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said privacy laws prevented him from releasing personal information about students.

At Oregon's Lewis & Clark College, another student was detained by campus police Wednesday shortly before a vigil for the Virginia Tech victims when he was spotted wearing an ammunition belt. Portland police later determined that it was "a fashion accessory" made of spent ammunition, and said the man did not have a weapon. The belt was confiscated.

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A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.

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Muppet69_420 said:
What a JOKE the system is. WHy not the fuck did they arrest the kid and why take the damn belt WTF? OOOOOO IM SO MAD!

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makaveli8x8 said:
but thats not right everyone should be allowed there opinion. and fact is culture is a growing "being" or entity, we truely did create him and it truely is our fault...we fail to be able to treat everyone fairly...and the result is what happened.

discrimination spreads like wildfire, and when it hits one place 2 many times your gunna burn alot of acres

p.s. hell you could look at it like the shooter was just putting out the flames

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A University of Colorado student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.

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Land of the free... what a fucking joke.

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Amber_Glow said:
Yeah I can understand why someone would want to shoot 32 people too.  That doesn't mean I personally feel the same way.

If people took the time to actually understand why a person would want to shoot 32 people, maybe we could do something to prevent this is the future.  But we'd rather just say 'oh he's crazy, inhuman, a freak of nature' instead of trying to analyze how society creates these people.

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makaveli8x8 said:
p.s. hell you could look at it like the shooter was just putting out the flames

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Somebody arrest this guy!

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ApJunkie said:
this is actually pretty backwards in my opinion. The kid was just a little pissed off at the world, but most likely pretty harmless. Now that someone told on him and he got arrested for it, he's gonna shoot up the school for sure.

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treat a kid like a criminal, and he will act like a criminal.