Already, some newspapers are taking comments on "why didn't the police act fast enough" and "why didn't VA Tech have a system in place". It's disgusting. Designed to sell newspapers. Just flat out shameful.
In re the first shooting, police were already looking for the shooter.
In a town of 27,000 -- when there is a murder, is the entire town supposed to be "locked down"? Is there supposed to be an alert for everyone everywhere to LOCK DOWN AND STAY IN DOORS?
No.
Are police supposed to be able to do a search of all major buildings in a town of 27,000?
So stunning, that "global warming enthusiasts" such as the MSM are, cannot see the parallels to what happened at VA Tech.
What happened yesterday? Liken it to an earthquake or a tornado. VA tech HAD measures in place. In an earthquake -- THERE ARE measures in place. This doesn't mean people who were in elevators weren't trapped, or folks standing near a glass window when the earthquake hit weren't hurt or killed.
Some tornadoes defy the best laid plans of man. This too is what happened yesterday at VA Tech.
But no -- Blame game, blame game, blame game has got to rule the day.
The shooters were HUMAN, and we couldn't stop them, but somehow and with Al Gore's guidance we're going to be able to stop killer tomatoes from turning on their growers.
The blame is so predictable. Some people have to blame someone, no matter what. The real person to blame is dead, so that just leaves Virginia Tech. It makes no difference what the school did or didn’t do.
I would have no problem sending my child to Virginia Tech. It is a beautiful area and the food is far better than at many other schools.
I wish some of the second guessers would tell us exactly what they would have done.
1) They had an incident in a dormitory, where two people were shot.
2) We are being told that the campus should have been "locked down", at that time. There were some 9,000 students living in dormitories ON CAMPUS at that time. So some suggest that the University should have locked them in their dorms when they'd already had one shooting in a residential facility.
3. The second shooting incident happened in a building of classrooms, but how were they to know yesterday at 8:00 where the second horror would occur, even if they could have foreseen it??
4. I can only conclude that what is being suggested is that a campus of some 30,000 should have been completely exacuated. To where? How long does it take to do that?
Instead of the blame game, I'd like to see practical ideas about what people are truly suggesting.
Hindsight is 20-20
Alia, I get your point, but when the President of the University was on with Geraldo earlier this morning, he said the police thought it was a murder/suicide.Seems to me that would have been ruled out if no weapon was found at the scene of the deaths in the dorm.