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Let's get real here for a second. In a crime of passion, which was believed to be a murder/suicide initially, wouldn't there have been a gun left behind? How can you shoot someone else and then yourself, without a gun being left behind? The fact that no gun was left behind should have kept officials on their toes - but apparently it didn't.

I can't speak for the police. But as far as I've read the police thought the killer had run off and they were looking for him.

I'll reiterate, anybody looking to blame the police for this need to have *concrete* evidence that the police did something wrong. Not idle speculation.

The police have a near impossible job already, trying to pin the blame on them for this smacks of trying to score political points.

You think this whole situation doesn't eat them alive? They used their best judgement and they were wrong. If they had known do you really think they would have sat around?

But as far as I've read the police thought the killer had run off and they were looking for him.

If they were running off and looking for him (which I'm not saying isn't true) it's a shame that five hours passed (7:15AM to 12:20PM appx., when he was found dead). They essentially caught up with him when the damage (much damage) had already been done.

Only they know how they responded and what they can do to improve in the future.

If every official ran to the scene, then that leaves next to no resources available for the other side of campus. Of course, this is hindsight, but putting all your eggs in one basket usually isn't a good idea.

I work in Law Enforcement. The scuttlebutt around the community seems to be: The reported first shooting was described as a “Domestic” incident, the campus police then went looking for the boyfriend of the first victim and located him, “the so called person of interest” apparently Cho had been stalking this girl, and witnesses thought it was a boyfriend/girlfriend argument between her and cho. In fact, the boyfriend wasnt Cho.

So when the police asked friends of the first victim “who is her boyfriend”, they obviously didnt name cho, they named the real boyfriend. Thats who the police were interrogating when word of the shootings at Norris came in. Honestly, the police really didnt screw this up. They thought had a boyfriend/girlfriend domestic homicide and had the boyfriend in for questioning at the time, that would fit as to why they didnt lock the rest of the campus down, they thought they had their guy. Apparently the shooter wasnt seen at AJ West, the argument was by the elevators there and was heard by people, followed by the shots. The asian description didnt come out until the witnesses from Norris emerged from the building.

The conclusion most people should come to is: "The police and the college administration cannot save me. Why can't I be allowed to try and save myself and others?" Let me carry the firearm I am guaranteed the right to carry by the U.S. constitution.

The myth of gun control is always proven wrong.

If my right to carry a firearm is taken away by the gubmint, the gubmint is supposed to keep me safe.

That has consistently proven to be pure nonsense.

The only thing stopping the mass killer at Virginia Tech from further killing was his own decision to commit suicide.

The "authorities" were there to carry bodies and clean up the blood after the carnage. They didn't protect anybody.