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Can every student who was put at risk that day because the school officials and police officials put the students lives at risk sue both the school and police force? Since both obviously can be sued what do you think is an appropriate settlement figure and will each of them demand that appropriate changes be made in both the school administration and the command leadership of the police authorities? Will state and federal gun control law changes be a part of each court settlement?

Both the police and school officials were criminally negligent and should be so charged to the full extent of the law! Hopefully there will be more lawyers lined up at campus than ambulances Why haven't we heard from the Virginia state Attorney General about possible future charges being filed against these incompetent nitwits?

To VAgirl a judge presiding on this case can rule however he sees fit! If they can order someone to be strapped in a chair and have 50K volts run in between their temples they can do whatever they so choose! Welcome to the insanity of our jurisprudence system!

To VAgirl a judge presiding on this case can rule however he sees fit! If they can order someone to be strapped in a chair and have 50K volts run in between their temples they can do whatever they so choose! Welcome to the insanity of our jurisprudence system! What makes you think your so damn intelligent?

Answer 1

I hope they do sue . . . it's about time people started caring when victims get killed instead of trying to find an 'easy way out' like chalking it up to a'domestic dispute' and sitting on their hands.

Tolerance of violence (even as a domestic situation) is a sad relic of our patriarchal Judeo-Christian heritage, and should be dropped as the status quo of police and bureaurocrats.

Answer 2

I totally agree with you.

There's no excuse to why the campus wasn't closed down after the first incident. It's a shooting, not a fight or someone got stabbed. Two ppl were dead, point blank. That's more of a reason to close the f'ing school down. Why wasn't it broadcast over the loud speaker. A school that big has got to have a loud speaker warning students. They should've had security at every entrance when students were arriving to the campus to redirect them back home until the first incident was thoroughly investigated.

This is a cover-up. 26,000 students could've been warned in 2 hours. Someone needs to be fired for this s**t. This is unacceptable.

I really feel sorry for the parents and families of the students and faculty members that were lost due to this tragedy.

Please everyone stop making excuses for the Admin, and the Chief officer of the school. Whether or not, the first incident was a domestic dispute, two students were killed and that was enough grounds to shut the campus down completly. Two hours was enough time to get the word across campus and could've of possibly save 32 student lives.

Answer 3

Get real!! What are you sue happy?? There is absolutely nothing for the victims or their families to sue about! They had a lead on the gunman and were following it. They had no reason to suspect this guy or that a person who shot two people would go back to his dorm, reload and get more ammo then go and wait at a second location across campus to shoot as many people as possible. WHO would ever think that could happen. Think about it - the first call was about someone faling out of their bed (came in at 7:15), ambulance arrived, discovered SHOOTING victims, called for another ambulance and more police at that time. Takes time to get there, time to determine that the shooter was not on the premises, that is was not murder/suicide, etc. Blame does not need to be put on the school Admin's or the Police Dept. They acted the best they could in the situation that was presented to them! Yes someone will probably be fired over this incident because of people like you complaining about law enforcement. Well they are always hiring, if you want to judge a cop - try to be one!

Answer 4

Im from Virginia and I knew two of the people, but I don't think there was a whole lot they could do. They did the best they could do with the info they had. Even if they sent out emails right away people wouldnt have gotten them. There are over 15,000 commuters. Also, the first shooting appeared to be a domestic problem, not a school shooting type incident.

Also, unfortunantly, most standards, rules, laws, etc. are set by precedent. Now people will try to think of better ways to handle things like this but at the time there were no set rules for what to do and they did their best. It is terrible but suing is rediculous. Why take money away from your school and government who can use the money to impliment better security and police forces?

Answer 5

First, you can't change laws in a civil action so that is not a valid issue. That would be like me sueing you for a car accident and having part of the settlement be that there is a nationwide reduction in speed limits. Second how do you get that they were obviously at fault? The Commonwealth will conduct a review of the events of the day to determine what if anything could have been done differently. I'd say you have to be a lawyer, but I don't think you are that smart.

Answer 6

Cho, the shooter is the ***ONLY*** one responsible for the deaths.

It is difficult to emotionally process such a horrible event. Sometimes people react in stages such as denial, anger, humor, blaming and searching for solutions. This is a normal chain of reaction to tragedy towards the acceptance of the event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubler-Ross_model

Security guards are not armed and can only provide a "sense" of security. They cannot provide virtual security. The objective of the security guard is to take control of the situation, keep people calm, stop panic.

They were asked why they hadn't "locked down" the campus after the early morning shootings in the dorm. The President patiently explained that the campus is 2,600 acres. One square mile is 640 acres so Virginia Tech is almost exactly four square miles in area.

Virginia Tech is not a gated community - like most colleges, one side of the street is the city the other side is the campus. And, he said, about half of the students - some 11,000 - live in Blacksburg not even on the campus and were, assumedly, driving in for their morning classes.
http://www.mullings.com/richbio.htm

At the Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002. A disgruntled student killed two students before he was killed by two other students with their personal firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

The Virginia Tech massacre was a horrible, horrible tragedy but in time, it will fade from public view. Only those who have suffered a personal loss will be faced with the struggle to overcome their grief and restructure their life. The survivors will suffer the tremendous loss very intently for a period of time and as they struggle to cope with their grief they will resolve it in many different ways but it will never go away, there will be triggers that bring it all back again in vivid detail.

Most of the people in the self-help group Parents of Murdered Children have strong feelings about this issue as well as Citizens against Homicide. (Members of both national groups have suffered the loss of a loved one to homicide) Compassionate Friends is also a self-help group however it is for parents who have lost a child to any cause homicide, accidental death or disease.
http://www.pomc.com
http://www.pomc.org
http://www.murdervictims.com/CAH.html
http://www.compassionatefriends.org

For donations see Virginia Polytechnic Instititute website:
http://198.82.160.236/
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Answer 7

The police weren't negligent. They had the dorm on lock down and students moved to a safe area. There was no reason to suspect the shooter would go to a classroom building.

How many cities of 26,000 have you seen locked down because of a shooting in one area? How many cops do you think it would take to enforce it?

You are just sue happy. If you want someone to sue......go after the mental health people who treated Cho in 2005 and released him as fit to live in society. THAT's your guilty party.

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Answer 8

they should sue.. i would a whole lot less people would have died if they would have warned students