Terrible, tragic news out of Virginia Tech today. I am sure there are millions of blogs already about it. Might as well add mine to the melee. Lots of people bitching about the decision not to lock down the campus after the first shooting. Shut up people! Does it do any good to bitch about that now? Besides, they made the best decision they could with the knowledge they had. The people in charge thought that the dead guy was the shooter, they thought it was a murder-suicide. Who would have thought that the shooter would go out and kill more 2 hours later? That is a long time! 2 hours! The shooter could have driven to DC by then. Would a lock down have really done any good? After an hour, the students locked in the dorms would have gotten bored and been out of their rooms by then anyway. Let's face the truth here, teenagers don't like to do what they are told. And what about the ones that were already en route to their morning classes? Where would they have gone? 26,000 students go to that school. That is a hell of a lot. Imagine trying to get them all locked down. Never would have happened. Ok, enough.
VT, my prayers and thoughts are with you.