ok, I'm going to chime in here about what was said about the University's response and how people are putting the blame on the chief and president for poor response. have you even been to Tech? or for that matter a campus that is about the same size of Tech? It is huge! It is literally bigger then most cities that are around Tech. How would you ever evacuate 36,000 students from the campus? Granted, not every one is taking class at the same time so maybe but that number to about 1/5 so that's about 7200 spread across over 100 buildings at one time. There are numerous classes that are on average filled with an average of 45 students, with a lot of auditorium classrooms, some of which hold up to 150-200 students. Be thankful the gunman didn't go into one of these classrooms.
So, you think that instead of everyone locking down in classrooms is better then have everyone on campus panicking in hallways trying to evacuate the campus, right into where the gunman is? Ok lets pretend for a minute that they were prepared like you said, with a police presence in every class, metal detectors and pat downs at every entrance, class ids checked in every classroom and then access restricted so that you can't leave the building until your class is done....bite me, I"m going to a different college. The one freedom you have in a University setting (which is pretty much shattered now) is the freedom of going from building to building, showing up to class if you want to in PJs and slippers hung over.
The only mystery to me is that 2 hour lag b/t shootings, and why the University didn't act on this on a whole especially if they didn't have the shooter. Considering it as an "isolated" incident with no shooter was a mistake and they should of quickly informed students and faculty sooner.
I know every one is angry, but I think your blame is directed in the wrong direction and well he is dead so no amount of justice will ever come out of this.
...and don't get me started with that whole "god's plan crap". will something good come out of this, eh?! how could it? People in the community will be better connected through this tragedy just like any, but don't start preaching to me about how better off the parents, friends, sons and daughters will be better off losing their loved ones in a senseless crime . A person's life can touch many more lives when they have the opportunity to do so, dieing at such a young age is tragic. It doesn't make anything right, and it never will. i guess you can call me the angry atheist.
my religion is my family, beer, THX surround sound, and my honda civic. CAN I GET AN AMEN!
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