Comments on: Virginia Tech Shooting

By: TeamTutorials

TeamTutorials — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:26:32 +0000

sad.

By: The Sarcasticynic

The Sarcasticynic — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:41 +0000

The Virginia Tech tragedy brings to mind a similar school shooting in 1979 California. 16 year old Brenda Spencer wounded nine and killed two in a shooting spree at an elementary school. She said, “I had no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun,” “It was just like shooting ducks in a pond,” and “(The children) looked like a herd of cows standing around, it was really easy pickings.”

By: Sweatband man

Sweatband man — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:40:19 +0000

We need to take time to love on those that are not at the top of the social chain. We may never truly know the motive behind such horrific actions that the killer uses to justify his or her means. However when the downtrodden and socially uncool are are excepted I believe a major motive is removed.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:02:20 +0000

What really scares me is that for the next few weeks this is going to be all over the media and everyone will be panicking about how unsafe our schools/malls/jobs are. Terrorists might realize this is their best way to completely F with our heads and make us feel unsafe.

How hard is it to get a student visa? or to just get someone into the country for another reason?

By: Derrich

Derrich — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:29:13 +0000

This is certainly a horrible tragedy.

By: Sweet Girl

Sweet Girl — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:03:06 +0000

There is a really great article on this site about how students on facebook have created group memorials for the V-Tech victims. It’s so nice to see such wonderful support. What a terrible tragedy.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:23:12 +0000

I would debate the following:

1. The university would never have guessed the first murder would EVER have led to a massacre. It just doesn’t happen in DC, much less a rural, southwest Virginia town a few hours away. Granted, there is the precedent in Texas, Columbine and a few other locations, but I want one person to step forward and say they thought this could happen on the scale it did, just based on the first killing.

2. How is a sprawling campus to notify all its faculty, staff and students in such a short time? They can send emails, but I’m sure they didn’t want to start a mass panic. They don’t have a campus-wide PA system that would reach all listeners. They would have to get on the radio stations to contact commuter students, and have to hope those students are all listen to the radio and not their CDs.

I don’t have an answer for what could have been done differently, but I don’t think the school could have done more with communications unless they truly had evidence the first killing would lead to a massacre. However, someone is going to have to get blamed, and I’m sure the university is first in line.