Shooting in US - Virginia

[surgtech1956]

I really get tired to the media. I know they have a job to do - reporting the news. But I get tired of the 'spin' that is put on. I think the university thought the decision that they made was the right one at the time. Everybody has an opinion and the media seems to find each and everyone of them. I don't know if anything can really be prevented. Look at 9/11. If someone wants to do something, they will find a way. I think there are just some things that you can never be prepared for.

[Jenn]

My DH has been deployed more times then I can count. Our military forces keep up safe from evil abroad but not form the evil within, which none of us want to face......(even if this shooter was a student on a visa)
My husband our family puts our life on the line for this country and it's safety this is worse then anything DH has seen over there...(it's nomral)...NOT HERE.
This is NOT suppose to happen....atl least in the perfect little bubble we call America...

[crazycanuck]

The following is me as a NON American thinking-I don't want to upset anyone at this time but i feel the need to express these ideas:

Again, just another loner in society that's caused mayhem. Sorry to say the law can''t stop them all

I know that some people reading this board will want to judge all Americans as bad-gun toting freaks but we can't use that "excuse" any longer. Aren't we all the same in some way? I realize that may sound dumb but isn't it true?

Somehow society will put aside it's prejudice against any lonely individual and perhaps learn to understand. Hard to say at a time like this but i somehow believe it.

Perhaps understand is the wrong word..Then again, perhaps it's correct & we need to accept the gun culture in the US. It's hard to comprehend and hard to accept. So many countries are looking in & wondering how America can have the right to carry a firearm but still have a safe society. Whatever that may mean.

I worry about you ladies who carry guns & mace on your bikes.

Take care of yourselves.

C

[cosc]

I just want to rant on these horrendous incidents. How can a person become so deranged to take innocents life for no reason? There is never a good reason to take a life, but I can comprehend why a person might want to commit suicide -but why everyone else? Humans seem to be the only creature to take life for no reason. Their spirit/heart must be blind to everything except hate. If mankind could reach out to the troubled folks with love and hope mabe these events wouldn't happen with such frequency.

[Aggie_Ama]

I really get tired to the media. I know they have a job to do - reporting the news. But I get tired of the 'spin' that is put on. I think the university thought the decision that they made was the right one at the time. Everybody has an opinion and the media seems to find each and everyone of them. .

This is why I chose not to use my degree in journalism. The "If it bleeds it leads" mentality is appalling. They always have to look for the most horrendous, most shocking or most controversial story to sell their product.

We could debate for hours if the university made the right decision and point fingers now that we know the outcome, but where is that going to get us? IMO the original thought that the first incident might have been a domestic dispute seemed like a rational assumption. The people who made the decision to focus on it that way are probably already sick with guilt and asking themselves "What if?". The media has played out the "Why didn't they???" angle too far.

And as someone who went to a university double the size of VT in students and comparable size in acreage, I wonder how the administration could have prevented the second shootings. Sadly, I could see this happening at most universities. The freedom colleges afford also leaves the students and faculty vunerable.

My hope is that all universities can pull out their disaster plans and study them, learning from this tragedy.