What you didn't mention was that Austin's residents took hunting rifles from their pick-up trucks and returned fire at Charles Whitman.

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In 1966 Charles Whitman, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, shot almost 50 passers-by from the top of the campus clock-tower.

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And when you see a guy who suddenly snaps, a guy who goes nuts, a Charles Whitman, who goes to the top of the Texas tower and shoots a whole bunch of people, when a guy goes postal -- that's the current slang -- that's a guy with a fire in his wires, basically.

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