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 wasnt time to get the word to both lock down the campus and stop the influx of tens of thousands of commuters.
They dont 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, dont they?
Did anyone notice that a bunch of those law enforcement offers were, ahem, chubby?
Law enforcement at Virginia Tech didnt save one life. They didnt waste one bullet doing it either. Somebody should be ashamed: law enforcement didnt 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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According to your article, the first inkling campus police had of a crime was not a shot, but the finding of two dead bodies.
It is unseemly how media types try to get attention for themselves by recasting this event from a tragic crime to an administrative scandal of which they will dictate the story line. Also the guillotine image of bloody heads rolling is disgusting in this context.
I couldn’t disagree more with this knee jerk reaction contained in the article.
Its this kind of mindset that leads to false assertions of guilty, or innocence.
See the Duke rape case.
Lets sit back and see what comes out, there is a ton of bad information floating around right now, as is always the case after something like this.
Where did we go wrong?
In their twisted way of thinking.
I sure hope Homeland Security, the CIA, and FBI don’t have this attitude.
It might be disturbing to you the choice of words , but this is the real world. Some one has to stand responsibility for the second shooting and no lock down occurred.After the first shooting the kids should have been locked down in a secure room with the door barricaded with the kids against the wall so he could not see them through the door.Think safety, maybe if heads do roll maybe this will not happen again. We lost 33 fine educated people who would have been productive in society. Like it or not drills have to be done to try and prevent this from happening again.Kids now have to learn when they go to college how to protect themselves. Like it or not this is not the cumbaya era.If it happened to a member of my family believe me heads would roll.
Send e-mail alerts to the student body?
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Witnesses, body temps, blood viscosity perhaps.
Initial reports on FNS was one dead and one wounded.
Doesn’t look like the wounded person made it.
Are you serious? Lock down an area the size of a small city for what was (at the time) a single homiced investigation?
Not to mention that it JUST HAPPENED and they were still investigating the single shooting when the second shootings started...
How much ESP do you think the police have? You might just have well insisted they lock everyone down before the first shooting -just in case
What?
Time to blame someone. That will prevent the tragedy from recurring. Next time we’ll know what to do. Right.
IMO, if you want to be an authority, a chief of police, a president, then you have to be fully prepared to take it in the shorts when poor information and poor decisions create a situation where 32 students are murdered.
I can hear the replies now, “No one would take the job”, yada, yada. Same BS they spew every time. Those jobs are supposed to be tough, and we have taken it light on their failures for years. If you want folks with the highest possible standards having authority, then you have to freaking demand that they are of the highest standards. Nothing less.
To rephrase my reply about relevance and time of death, they should not have concluded security on-site with the domestic violence assumption. But then more agencies today are more apt to investigate and/or clean up and not so inclined toward security.
And there is also the possibility that two unrelated incidents occurred. ...seems remote, but anything’s possible.
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