If the victims were shot to death, then some of the blood is on the hands of the VT leadership.
Why aren't their students allowed to have a concealed weapon if they are licensed/registered to do so?
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/xp-21770
My blood pressure went up after reading this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9795510-38.html
You would be correct if the problem at VT, and other "gun-free-zones" was that defenseless people are only subject to being shot to death.
But the truth is that defenseless people can be murdered in various ways. And the most effective personal defense measure to prevent such slaughter is to allow competent, law-abiding adults to carry concealed firearms.
The VT administration is most certainly responsible for requiring the victim in this case to be disarmed. The feel-good effort of transmitting two emails to the entire student body had no protective effect whatever for the victim. The administration might as well issue chalk to the students so that they can draw circles around the bodies without having to wait for the campus police.
Even if the victim was not shot to death (and she was not, she was stabbed) there is STILL blood on the hands of the VT Administration.
The culture of “run and hide and wait for the police to help you” which they perpetrate at the school is at the root of this.
Of course, this is not JUST a Virginia Tech problem. It is a nation-wide phenomenon.