[DCPatriot]

confusion in reporting is inexcusable. More lives were lost because nobody appeared to set up an adequate chain of command for information or security after the first shootings.

That's nonsense, IMO.

A college campus the size of a small town at a time of the day when kids are too busy getting ready for school..why would anybody suspect anything more than a solitary shooting?

There were no suspects, no hostage situation...they didn't even know if it was murder suicide. We don't know if the shooter left a decoy weapon at the scene. There were no reports of anybody running away from the scene.

The college president took the position that it was better to get the kids into their classrooms and THEN lock them down...since it takes up to twenty minutes for some students to walk to their classrooms.

IMO, the college acted properly. Blame the shooter...for once.

[floriduh voter]

The shooter was on the loose and isn't it the le's duty to protect and to serve instead of saying they thought he left the state?

The cops wishfully thought that he must have he left the state. He hadn't.

[dragnet2]

There were no suspects, no hostage situation...they didn't even know if it was murder suicide.

Lets hope this wasn't the case. In the the initial shooting/murder scene, there was no gun. Meaning who ever murdered them, was still on the loose with a gun.

[Dante3]

I agree with you. I have been to the campus. It is a large campus and not easy to lock it down. You cannot have a lockdown of a community this large every time there is a violent crime - in many murder cases the weapon is not left behind. A woman said she lives in a New York apartment building where there has been more than one homicide and the building was never locked down.

Even if the whole campus had been placed in lockdown, what would have prevented the shooter from waiting a few days and they gone on a shooting spree? At this point I cannot fault the university for the way the reacted.

As for the gunman's demented writings - just read the stuff Senator Webb wrote and he got elected to the Senate.