Why did it take police three hours to stop one shooter?

Question

Is not true, that our police train endless amounts of hours for these kind of situations?
Eyewitness Matt Kazee said that it was a full two to three hours after the shootings began that loudspeakers installed around the campus were used to warn students to stay indoors and that a shooter was on the loose.
Quite how the killer was afforded so much time before any action was taken to stop him is baffling, especially considering the fact that the campus, according to Kazee, was crawling with police before the event happened due to numerous bomb threats that had been phoned in last week.
The shootings came three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported.
CNN quoted a student who was outraged at the delay in identifying and stopping the killer.

"What happened today this was ridiculous. And I don't know what happened or what was going through this guy's mind," student Jason Piatt told CNN. "But I'm pretty outraged and I'll say on the record I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it — no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceling classes — they just mention that they're investigating a shooting two hours later at 9:22."
He added: "That's pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they're sending out that e-mail, 22 more people got killed."

Why did the government prevent people from defending themselves or fleeing? Why our are children being conditioned to fear school? I'm tired of the same old excuses. This is lame, there is already proof that the school was having bomb threats throughout the month. yet NO PREVENTION.

Answer 1

that's a question that no one can really answer besides the police and the head of campus security etc. to anyone else in the world, that seems completely ridiculous, but i guess to them, they thought that there was obviously something more important than stopping a shooter on a rampage.


i don't understand why the campus wasn't completely evacuated after the first shooting. people are completely ridiculous

Answer 2

Do you evacuate a whole town of 25,000+ when one person is killed? Even canceling all the classes is over doing it if it's not a high school or lower. If there was one person killed on campus, without an indication that the gunman was going after more people, a notice of an ongoing investigation after an initial fact-gathering period is what would be expected. It could quite easily be a personally motivated issue, such as a couple breaking up for example.

Now, if it was someone wandering the halls first and shooting in all directions, that would be different, that would indicate an imminent danger to the general population.

Answer 3

I think the police behaved much the same way soldiers behave in Iraq -- not rushing into the thick of things without gaining more information, and reinforcements. A policeman who rushed into fray to deal with the lone gunman would probably have prevailed and then hailed as a hero. However, had there been several gunmen, that policeman would most certainly be dead.

Bear that in mind the next time a gunman or gunmen break into your school or workplace. If the gunman is not the hostage-taking type but an executioner, you better find an exit fast, hole-up somewhere defensible, or coordinate with other trapped people to attack the gunman somewhere feasible. Am I correct in this assessment?

Answer 4

First, the police did not kill those students so with the way you asked your question, you sound like you are blaming them. That's the problem in this country, is always somebody else's fault. The shooter killed in one area and waited 2 hours before killing again. The cops didn't know this person and they didn't know he would pop up somewhere else on campus to kill again. If we "locked down" every city every time there was a murder, it would be called "martial law". Is that how you want to live? The answer is to have more people, students included, to have concealed handguns that way the bastard could have been taken out alot sooner. But, the liberal "anti everything" crowd doesn't see it that way.

Stop blaming the cops. Blame the killer.

Answer 5

What appeared to be an isolated and targeted shooting doesn't require the campus to be evacuated or shut down. The police and administration did everything the best they could. They are not to blame here.

Answer 6

Think about the type of people that become cops. You all know the type from High School, the bumbling idiots that couldn't get into college. They take our guns away and tell us that they will protect us? Ha! It takes them 3 hours to shoot someone. Had the people in the classroom been allowed to conceal and carry, this would not have happened.

Answer 7

People like you only hear the parts of the news that they want to hear so explaining why this happened the way it did is useless. Go ahead and be mad...maybe those kids will come back alive if you are.

Answer 8

VA Tech is over 26000 acres with over 125 building with 400 rooms per building...no one could be prepared for what just happened.

Answer 9

krispy cream and dunkin doughnut hey cops are only human

Answer 10

thats one hell of a question...did you copy and paste that?