The mistake was forgetting that a university is not like a neighborhood but essentially one large building. So of like ignoring a shooting in a skyscraper.
>>The mistake was forgetting that a university is not like a neighborhood but essentially one large building. So of like ignoring a shooting in a skyscraper.
Have you ever been to a sizeable university? VT is a small town of around 40,000, quite a few more than in a typical skyscraper.
Actually, Virginia Tech’s campus, centered around a large drill field for the Corps of Cadets, is enormous and sprawls over many, many acres, with the towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg surrounding it. Locking it and all 22,000+ students down was just not possible because of its sheer size.
Dear RobbyS,
“The mistake was forgetting that a university is not like a neighborhood but essentially one large building.”
Except in the case of Virginia Tech, it’s not one large building, but over a hundred large buildings. On over 4 square miles of land. With 26,000 students. Immediately adjacent to a town with all of 50 uniformed, armed police officers.
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