Some good points in this article.
They have been conditioned to be good little sheep and rely on the police to save them. Not to mention the fact they were paralyzed trying to figure out how a gun got in a gun free zone.
Hey Smitie, maybe because the “students” have been indoctrinated for years with the notion that big government will protect and should protect us all.
How many times have we seen LEOs telling any who would listen to “just call 911.” Taking matters into one’s own hands has become the height of hubris.
Hey Smitie, maybe because the “students” have been indoctrinated for years with the notion that big governnment will protect and should protect us all.
How many times have we seen LEOs telling any who would listen to “just call 911.” Taking matters into one’s own hands has become the height of hubris.
This is a creepy post. The author seems to enjoy a little too much phrases like “field of fire” and “tactical variables” and “fire superiority.” It was a college. Let the dead rest in peace and the survivors be left unjudged.
“Thank God, he [Cho] didn’t have guns staged all over the place.”
Thanks for giving the next nutcase copycat that idea
How about they were terrified?
I have it on good authority from a handful of Freepers in other threads that these students were all cowards or sheep. For some, that appears to be the only explanation possible. Sad.
Actually I think it is worth noting the heroics were from older more mature persons. I am thinking of the two professors who blocked doors to let students live.
Agreed. Bravado is cheap (and, therefore, plentiful) when one is twelve days and hundreds of miles removed from the scene.
I still remember how heavy my textbooks were. If everyone had thrown them at Cho he might have been distracted long enough for a bum rush to succeed.
“Why didn’t some of the students rush Cho?”
Aren’t students told to abhor violence? Aren’t we all told to hold hands, give up our guns, love our multiculturalist society and sing, “kumbayah”?
AND....
...If he knew that concealed-carry was (should have been) lawful on this campus --
Had he known that someone was more than likely odds-on to confront him with deadly force - and the willingness to use it in defense -- before this became a massacre...
I s'pect he might have taken a different tack....perhaps reconsidered his course of action....
In the very least the death toll would have been much less...
(The perp would have bceome a statistic much sooner on the timeline....)
JMHO...
Any Todd Beamer types would have rushed him and probably did, just not all at once.
But I judge none of them, if any had a chance to act but didnt their own conscience will judge them enough from now on without me piling on.
My guess is another Cho in the future (God forbid) will not rack up such a count before he is tackled.
Simple, Cho was armed, and they were disarmed by a PC law which forbids guns on any school or college campus.
Granted, no one wants a bunch of untrained college kids carrying loaded guns around on campus or in classrooms, but Virginia adults with clean records and some basic firearms training can get permits to carry guns almost anywhere in VA EXCEPT on a school or college campus. That law is stupid and worse than useless, because anyone who is mentally unbalanced or angry enough to commit mass murder at a school couldn't care less about breaking a gun law in the process.
No doubt some of those VT students were old enough and mature enough to have CC permits, and practically any of the faculty would probably qualify. But those permits, if any of the faculty or students did have them, were invalid under VA law at the very place and time where they probably could have saved many lives.
How sure is anyone that Cho really shot himself, as opposed to, say, someone charging him and in spite of getting drilled, grabbing the gun and shooting Cho just before passing out / expiring?
When will CHO be issued (posthumously) a summons for bringing a gun into a “GUN FREE” ZONE?