So, the media is giving Virginia Tech a hard time because they didn't cancel classes after the first shooting. Let me ask this - the shooter was a student who lived in the dorm. Isn't it pretty obvious that he would have simply started shooting in one of the dorms had classes been cnacelled? I'm confused about what good cancelling classes would have done.
Maybe earlier notification of the first shooting would have been nice - but how do you really plan for some mentally ill person trying to kill people?
This is a tragedy, but it seems like the media is trying to maximize shock value - yet again. What purpose does this serve? Are we really any better off as a country by allowing the press to exploit such a tragedy?
2007-04-17 02:18:52 · 13 answers · asked by Roland'sMommy 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
listen up kids .............report the crazy guys
never let your kids forget that there really are crazy people in the world and that they are going to meet some of them
blame the crazy guy
You can't blame the school! How would they know? Crystal ball?
unusual things happen all the time on college campuses. One in a 10 million incidents involves a nut with a gun and they should clairvoyantly know how to deal with it? Please.
That is the fundamental problem with crazy people they are by definition unpredictable.
2007-04-17 04:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
first off what do you think the medias job is, to sell the story. Why are you so surprise that they do the thing that they do. Journalist rank up their with lawyers in terms of occupations this country could do without when it becomes a Communist country.
Secondly, were was campus security after the first shots they should have notified the entire campus police force to locate this person, Dunkin Doughnuts must had a buy on dozen get the other half off sell.
Finally, it was the school's fault for their slow response to deal with this tragedy. This guy went from the dorms shooting to the engineering building lining up people and executing them. Do you not know how long that takes, and still no response from the police.
In closing what do you expect from a school that allows Marcus Vick attend.
2007-04-17 02:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by King Midas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think even the Campus Police will admit it was stupid to not lock down without first ascertaining if the shooter was still on campus. Do you think if it were to happen next week they would handle it the same way? Someone came into the dorm and killed two people. The safest thing would be to assume he is still around until you search and verify that he is not. A search would probably give us the scenario of the armed police finding him before or soon after he started the second time. It was about two hours between attacks!
I disagree that this is exploiting the incident. We need to know what went wrong if is to be fixed.
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2007-04-17 02:38:26 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget, there was a 2 HOUR difference between the dorm shootings and the shootings on campus. The university and the police should have completely shut down the campus until the dorm suspect was in custody or killed. They knew that he was still at large and yet they didn't warn students to keep away and allowed classes to continue. An email will not cut it! Bottom line, you don't allow business as usual when you know a guy is still walking around with a gun.
2007-04-17 02:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by abdiver12 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are. It was the campuses responsibility to its students inform them immediately and do what it could to safely guard all the dormitories with police until the suspect was apprehended.
Its the medias job to inform the public of events like this so that the next school that has this problem doesn't suffer the same demise. If your student was at this school would you rather he be in a dorm with a cop in front of it or in a large class room(fish in a barrel)?
2007-04-17 02:23:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you particularly think of banning weapons will help this situation? It happens because of the fact the killers understand they are risk-free in gun loose zones. actuality: weapons ward off an expected 2.5 million crimes a twelve months, or 6,849 every day. in many situations the gun isn't fired and no blood (alongside with the criminal’s) is shed. Targetting weapons, Dr. Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State college, 1997 actuality: every day, 550 rapes, a million,one hundred murders, and 5,two hundred different violent crimes are prevented basically via exhibiting a gun. In below 0.9% of the time is the gun ever surely fired. Ibid. actuality: 60% of convicted felons admitted that they prevented committing crimes while they knew the sufferer became into armed. 40% of convicted felons admitted that they prevented committing crimes while they concept the sufferer ought to be armed. James Wright and Peter Rossi, Armed and seen risky: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms,massive apple: Aldine, 1986 actuality: Washington D.C., has banned gun possession and has a in line with capita homicide value of fifty six.9. around the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun possession isn't regulated, and the homicide value is an insignificant a million.6 in line with capita. FBI, Crime in the USA, 1998 actuality: In 1982, Kennesaw, GA surpassed a regulation requiring heads of families to maintain a minimum of one firearm in the domicile. The residential housebreaking value dropped 89% right here twelve months. Dr. Gary Kleck, Crime administration in the path of the interior maximum Use of Armed stress, Social issues, February 1988
2016-10-22 10:02:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right but you can't convince these idiots that want to blame someone they can sue. They can't sue the dead guy that did it so the lawyers need to sue someone that has money. Nobody will get any money but the lawyers. Tha aftermath is not about anything but how much money the lawyers can make. Their probably about 10,000 lawyers looking up phone numbers to contact victims and relatives to tell them how much money they can make off there dead love one. I think you get the idea of where I am going "It is all about the money".
2007-04-17 02:37:08 · answer #7 · answered by Flyflinger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The press exploits every such tradedy for $$$.
Why have they withheld the information about the student?
They know who he is. They know his religion. They know from which country he came.
If it was a "red-neck" Christian white boy from Georgia, the press would be interviewing his neighbors, his pastor, his 3rd grade girlfriend. Etc.
Just released! He was an ALIEN!!!!!
2007-04-17 02:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's human nature to want to blame someone anyone for these type of crimes. The officials did the best to their ability and training. It wasn't a perfect response but it wasn't a terrible one either. It's like blaming the rape victim for wearing a mini skirt and being raped.
2007-04-17 02:29:06 · answer #9 · answered by bettercockster1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when it comes to the friends and relatives of those killed in a classroom, you won't have one that would agree with you. I'm not saying you are wrong, but put yourself in their shoes. Of the thousands of students enrolled, why my child... if this or that then my baby would still be alive. You can hardly blame them though. One of the hardest things to do in life is to bury a child.
2007-04-17 02:22:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋