Please stop blaming the VT authorities for the massacre yesterday. It's knee-jerk mob mentality. And it's incredibly unfair.
Why is it unfair? We have the benefit of HINDSIGHT. They didn't.
Not to mention that canceling classes wouldn't have done anything. Something tells me he'd have found another target, either another dorm or a dining hall. You can't lock down a campus that large effectively, and even if you could, you just locked in the kids with a gunman.
Also, with the benefit of hindsight, we knew he'd go all the way across campus two hours later. But yesterday morning? At a university that has never had anybody killed on campus, in a town that is relatively peaceful? No way they saw this coming, not in a million years. They thought it was a domestic shooting, a crime of passion at the dorm.
Until things are sorted out by the experts, here is all we should be doing:
1) Blame the shooter.
2) Mourn the dead.
3) Well wish the family of the deceased, and the survivors.
Also, it surprises me very little that within hours of this, Jack Thompson was on news outlets blaming video games.
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I cannot believe the dumb questions reporters are asking the students - some so insensitive that men cry. Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit late on this story and do not know what exactly happened. Checking out the news and tryin to figure out why and how it all went down.
ReplyDeleteLife is too real at times.
I completly agree!! I refuse to blame the school faculty. Its unfair and they feel bad enough all ready, without beong told that they could have prevented this, which is an absolute lie. They did the very best tht they could under the circumstances!!
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Well said! I agree wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteWhat I hate is when my local news station in Massachusetts takes a national/world hitting news story like this and tries to bring it home.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reporter from WWXZ out at UMASS campus asking students, "Do you think it could happen here?"
One particular year I was waiting for "them" to report on great white shark attacks in the Connecticut River.