1. In 2006, the VA administration managed to whip up enough support in the state house to shoot down a bill that would allow properly licensed and trained students to carry concealed weapons on the VA Tech campus. In Virginia, carrying a concealed firearm is lawful on campus... With the sole exception being state-owned VA Tech. Now look what's happened: Students were sitting ducks with no means to resist being killed. Again, well-meaning gun control fuels the greatest school massacre in modern US history.
2. The police response time was two hours between the first shooting and the second spree. No students were notified by campus email. The only indication to most students that there was a dangerous situation on campus was when they encountered the gunman shooting at them even though he'd been killing students for over two hours.
I am sorry, but I am not going to cut the VA Tech authorities any slack for a situation that they partially created just because they're feeling sad at the moment. Since when does grief negate responsibility?
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He had killed 2 hours ago and was hiding/moving for 2 hours you say it like he was continously shooting for 2 hours.
The police responded to the first shooting, determining, I assume from interviews at the scene, that it was a domestic dispute. Apparently they didn't have any ID on the killer, and they assumed he was gone from campus. There was no indication that this person was going to go on a shooting rampage on campus.
The administration DID contact students through their RA's by telephone, and began a telephone tree to contact others. They also sent a blast e-mail to all students in the system, after having done the calling. The President said that there were sirens going off on campus as well. As the college President pointed out, many students had already left their dorm rooms for their first class, and by the time the major killing took place, some of those students may not have even known about the situation.
The gunman hadn't been killing students continually for two hours. If it was one gunman, he shot two earlier in the day, then either hid out on campus, or went back to wherever he lived to re-arm and come back. On a campus as large as VT, he probably could have gotten on campus from just about anywhere, even in a lockdown situation. I doubt the place is fenced in and gated, so folks come and go all the time. From what I've been able to gather, the second wave of shooting didn't last that long, so the administration would not have had time to react to that one, either.