Virginia Tech Shooting - Condolonces

I'm sorry if I missed this, but I just heard on the news there was a FIRST shooting in a dorm 2 hours before there was one in a hall. Nothing was said about it!?

Edited by JJLehto - April 16 2007 at 17:32

JJLehto wrote: I'm sorry if I missed this, but I just heard on the news there was a FIRST shooting in a dorm 2 hours before there was one in a hall. Nothing was said about it!? Is this true?

Yeah.  The first shooting happened in a dorm at about 7am.  Students weren't notified until 9:30, at which point we were informed that class was still going on.

Class wasn't canceled until 10:15.

go figure.

Shocked as everyone here and even more for the communication failure that could have save lives if some steady action was taken after the 1st shootings. What happened? People were still entering the campus to become targets... what a sad day!

The Lost Chord wrote: we are just too comfortable all day, especially a year after this recent event we will generally all forget about it and people will be just as lax, but there really is not much to be done as far as im concerned...   If we undergo another terrorist attack im sure security will get tighter, but how could it get tighter?  Only if its lossened up since 9/11 which im sure it has

I don't think people shold not have the right to live in peace without having to be frightened by every black pipe they spot. Terrorists and shoot-about youngsters aren't really the problem, but what's making them do that. Instead of making the security tighter we should get to roots of everything. It's not guns that kill people, it's not the people that are mad always, it's the teaching, the culture, the environment, and the guns they're given that let them do that. Whenever a terrorist has a reason to strike or a kid to blow his and other peoples brains out instead of jailing the kid, we should look into removing what ever is the reason. Basically look in the mirror, and that goes to the whole world. It still is an open-for-violence world, though it seems violence occurs more on local than global level, at least to where it reaches notifiable value.

Edited by Passionist - April 16 2007 at 17:56

GoldenSpiral wrote: Oh, hey, didn't see this thread before I started my own. I am a student at VT, but I never made it to campus this morning because my first class wasn't until 11.  They didn't actually close the university until about 9:30, even though the first shooting occurred at 7:15am.  It's absolute chaos around here, and not all of my friends have been accounted for.  All I can do is hope the rest are OK.

What makes me sick is that the bodies are still warm and gun control activist have already started using this event as a cheap political point to push their agenda.

My prayers go out to the victims and their families tonight.

BOTH sides of the gun control debate will start using their for their side very soon, it has started as Equality mentioned....

This hits me very hard.

Why do we always have to blame somebody of something?:

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 16 2007 at 23:03

VA Tech handled this situation as badly as possible.