Comments on: Signs Were There, Was Security In Place?

Cho Seung-Hui's Peers And Professors Knew He Was Troubled, But Was Va. Tech Prepared?

[bizzzz-2009]

To Jessiebutterfly,
It is hangwringers like you that are the reason that something like this will definitely happen again.
The whole "no one is to blame" mentality is a symptom of a society's fear of hurting someone's feelings when they confront them on the fact they blew it.
People in this country hate confrontation. Some people might say "there was no way we could have predicted or prevented this from happening..."
REALLY? 33 people dead at the hands of one person...over the span of several hours...with shootings hours apart from each other? On top of the fact that he had a documented history of mental illness?
No cameras, no loud (warning) speaker system on campus. 33 deaths couldn't be prevented? I find that hard believe.
I see Charles Steger, the President of Virgina Tech, got a standing ovation yesterday. Why? I don't think anyone should get a standing ovation before an investigation in complete.
You watch, more standing ovations will be given, time will pass, and nothing will be done about it. Just like the levees in New Orleans, waiting for another hurricane.

[jessiebuffy-2009]

A quote from someone who was interviewed on the Early Show by someone named Kaine said the following:

%u201CI'm satisfied that the university did everything they felt they needed to do with the heat on the table,%u201D Kaine told CBS' %u201CThe Early Show%u201D on Wednesday. %u201CNobody has this in the playbook, there's no manual on this.%u201D

My comments? His excuse for not locking down the campus is there is "no manual on this"? How about common sense and half a brain to lock down the campus and call the police when the first shooting took place. How many children and teachers have to die at schools because of inept morons like this one. I am angry that after Columbine and other shootings there is no process in place to protect people. I am a parent and my son was a student at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, CA. I remember receiving the phone call from him that a kid with a gun was shooting people at his school and that he fled for his life to get away from the gunman. What is wrong with our society that obvious warnings of psycho nut cases are overlooked so that more and more tragedies like this happen? A professor warned the school administrators about this psycho and all they did was remove him from her class.

[johnshaft4]

As new details emerge, it is obvious that VA Tech staff and campous police KNEW what they were dealing after this known psychopath comitted the first AM shootings. There were witnesses plus video cameras identifying the killer. The cause of the additional murders lies squarely on campus police. It constitutes EXTREME gross negligence on the part of campus police that once they knew WHO and WHAT was on the loose that the campus should have been locked down and back up called until this nut job was in custody. For two hours this mass murderer had free reign of the campus. Don't blame guns for the malfeasance of VA Tech police.
Let the lawsuits begin flying...