knowing the 7:15 shooter is still on the loose - you start cancelling classes, you start turning away students who drive to school and send them away. its also obvious that while there may have been security guards at the location of the first shooting, what about everywhere else on the campus? you bring all these people in, let classes start, and no security is present to stop some guy from chaining doors from the inside.
they would have been better off flushing everyone out of the buildings onto the lawns, the one place you don’t want to be is inside a building, yet that’s where they guided everyone to.
REALLY! At 7:16am the MANHUNT for the shooter should have begun, for crying out loud! Why is this campus being treated differently than any other town?
No, you don't. All you have then is a bunch of people milling around campus who haven't got the word.
The problem in that case, if you want to start cancelling classes and turning people away, is simple. How do you get the information out? I didn’t even know they had loudspeakers on campus, but apparently, they do. So that might take care of people on campus, but what about the fifteen thousand students that live off-campus? It’s not like it’s snowing, or some obvious situation that people would be listening to determine whether or not to come to VT that day.
With regard to security, I don’t know what the VT campus police department is like. All I have to go on is my campus PD from twenty years ago, and honestly, I wouldn’t have trusted those guys to investigate ANYTHING. They wrote parking tickets. That’s it. On the very few occasions that something serious happened, the local town PD did the work. Maybe VT’s cops are better. But I seriously doubt they’ve got a fraction of the resources that even a small-town PD like Blacksburg, or the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, can deploy.
I just don’t see how you can truly defend against something like this without turning the campus into a prison. The logistics border on the impossible.
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Agree 100%. Virginia Tech administration and police carry a lot of blood on their hands. I cannot believe how stupid and careless they are. They should go to jail.