Posted on 04/17/2007 5:21:32 AM PDT by IrishMike
The entire nation will now collectively mourn one of the great tragedies one can endure: the death of so many of our children.
But a detailed analysis of the facts will also be ongoing. There are many questions from all observers.
It just seems to me, when law enforcement finds two dead bodies on a sleepy university campus in the 7 A.M. hour: they immediately should slam the “Red Alert” button. Yesterday there were some lame remarks about getting out an email (two hours late) and that there wasn’t time to get the word to both lock down the campus and stop the influx of tens of thousands of commuters.
They don’t have radio and TV in Blacksburg, Virginia? If at 7 A.M. a tornado was announced heading for that campus, what would have happen? How about a snowstorm? We had high winds in Washington D.C. this week and the schools were closed three hours early. It was on every radio and TV station in seconds. With that huge force of law enforcement, a good police commander could have closed every road into that campus in no time.
They got radios, cars and flashing lights, don’t they?
Did anyone notice that a bunch of those law enforcement offers were, ahem, chubby?
Law enforcement at Virginia Tech didn’t save one life. They didn’t waste one bullet doing it either. Somebody should be ashamed: law enforcement didn’t fire a shot. The only shooter on that campus got tired after all the mayhem he made.
If my kids name was killed in the classroom after 9 A.M. I am one angry parent.
When is the last time law enforcement found two dead students, murdered students, on that campus during the 7 A.M. hour?
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So...when would you have hit the “Red Alert” panic button?
By "lack of follow-through" do you mean finding and detaining the ex-boyfriend of the female victim at an off-campus site? Is that what you mean?
After the first crime he had time to plot and return and reload. Lock down might have saved some lives.it is now necessary for parents to use the words what if. When you take your child to look at a college you have to use two more words simple ones ,what if.
Better yet, why not have security cameras mounted to the head of each individual so that we can know what everyone is doing at every single moment. Plus maybe we can attach some EEG thingies to our heads to monitor brain activity and look for patterns of brain activity which signal violence or law-breaking. And then we'd all be safe.
If drills like that could be done for nuclear attacks simulated in the 50s why no drills today. After yesterday we should demand them.In the fifties we used to them once a month. We had no war of course , but we aired on the side of caution.
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Into it’s 3rd century, the boy scouts motto
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So...when would you have hit the “Red Alert” panic button?
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Panic not really needed.
‘Red Alert’...... 5 minutes after finding the dead and wounded at 7AM.
...that's the point where I stopped reading.
Two words that guarantee all noble endeavors are brought to a halt.
Irish you and I think alike!
How about we start with the design of the road system and go from there.
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Good. Lets do that.
What is the road design?
What do you do with it or about it?
Good L*rd, I hope it's not contagious.
Where do they think this “red alert button” is? Is it like the “Easy” button from Staples?
Oh, for there to be a button you could push whenever something bad could possibly happen, that would magically prevent it.
Where were the security camera on campus? People pay a lot of money to go to these schools and they expect enforcement to be aware of what might happen also. If it saves one life to error on caution then let America make mistakes that way. I still believe in better to be safe then sorry.All I know is there are a lot of people hurting today. I hope we have learned where we went wrong.
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I like the idea of a security camera in a girl’s dorm.
Great.
It would make it even more secure to put it on the ‘net. That would give us real 24/7 watchdogs.
You caught me. Man, you're good.
Most here today have ripped me,
almost hurts to sit.
Mike
I write SOP(operating plans)and EOP (emergency occupancy plans) for employees, tenants and occupants of Federal Buildings. Fire Drills and Shelter in place drills are twice yearly tested and practiced. Those are minimal requirements.
It sadly appears VA Tech had no plans, no procedures and ‘winged it’.
Resulting in an horrendous loss of young life.
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