The media is all over the Virginia Tech people not doing enough after the first shooting when in fact they did email the students about the situation. Clearly no one could forsee this mad man going into a lecture hall and slaughtering these poor people. Did they do enough to protect the students?
2007-04-16 10:49:24 · 15 answers · asked by Bosspooba 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
YES. I think people are obsessed with this need to know. I really think people feel that they think that they have a right to know what is happening RIGHT THIS MINUTE. This just isn't possible, but, beyond that, people don't need to know everything.
I think the officials at Tech did everything the could to control the situation, not insight panic, and to keep students and faculty safe.
People always need somebody to blame when they don't understand something. That is the case in this situation.
What a shame.
2007-04-16 10:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by jrstina624 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every school, business, Church, government agency should have a pro-active plan in place for specific emergencies. Central siren, emails, text messages, lock downs - something is always available, just not in place soon enough. It always comes down to funding. Who is going to pay for it? Who's budget? Who heads it up? Who is responsible? How often drill? And on & on.
People by nature believe that it won't happen to them, and then they are the first who swear that they can't believe what just happened. Incidents like this are worldwide and it's sometimes just a matter of statistics when it comes to you.
Emails being the first line of defence is incredibly lame. Internet is not reliable, not everyone owns a computer yet, the email was not a pre-set warning that would forcibly default on everyone's computer at once. The officials assumed it was more of a small scale event and didn't want to panic the students, but sometimes too much caution costs lives (as it did here). Two hours between the shooter's assaults is ample time to have aprehended him before he set off on his second series of victims. What of the communication between the campus police, local police, county police, state police, military & FBI? Do they have protocol in place with a specific set of codes so that everyone knows within moments of each other to prepare and be ready to head out after it is determined what like of action is needing to be activated?
The AMBER alert has specific criteria that needs to be met before announcements are made.
NOAA has it's alert system in place to inform the public of impending dangerous weather.
We need similar type alert systems in place regarding the type of danger, location, what the general public is to do, what those in the danger zone are expected to do.
This isn't the first time this has happened. And we are certain of it to occur again. What we need to be is pro-active about it in getting a protective measure in place, as soon as possible.
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2007-04-16 18:22:34 · answer #2 · answered by YRofTexas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9/11 comes to mind. In that situation, the police also decided to inform the people in the towers to stay put and not evacuate. I cant understand why after one student was killed the powers that be didn't cancell all classes for the day, at least to regroup if not for anything else.
I know if i was attending a class and was informed that a student on campus was murdered and had't been caught you would have not been able to keep me on that campus for 1 second.
2007-04-16 18:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by rrh2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we will ever know. I am certain that everyone does his or her best at the time. The only problem that I had (and who knows if I got the correct info) was that the initial 911 call went into CAMPUS POLICE. I don't like that. Any 911 call should go directly to the police department. The dispatcher can always contact the campus police.
2007-04-16 18:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok they E-MAILED the students....yeah that's not really going to help a lot....and in most shootings like these the police never do anything they just stand there outside nobody tries to go in they basically just wait until the gunman kills himself...now I know that they probably try to do as much as possible but seriously they should be better trained to handle these situations...they should send police in instead of just waiting outside I mean seriously its the cops fault and you can't say otherwise...its the truth
2007-04-16 17:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by angelus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There should have been a better system for letting students know. There have been news reports about students who got up and went to class, and then were confronted with police telling them to leave and/or other students running for their lives, and they had no clue what was going on.
2007-04-16 17:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, there were 2 bomb threats and 1 was 3 days ago. maybe the same guy maybe not but still the security should've been stepped up and also swat should've had the authority to do whatever it took to save the students
2007-04-16 17:58:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion I think they did as much as possible...maybe lacked a little bit. But according to news sources they sent massive emails and also announced it over speakers to "stay away, dangerous zone"...regarding the shooting in the classrooms..maybe the police on campus should have arrived quicker...not sure?
2007-04-16 17:54:16 · answer #8 · answered by Princesa 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO the shootings were 2 hours apart they could've very well done something by then.
2007-04-16 17:55:47 · answer #9 · answered by 00666 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its true that you can't predict that such things will happen but how did they let two hours go by in between shootings without warning students and faculty? the back of my mind says more could have been done to save lives.
2007-04-16 17:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by amarillo 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋