I asked earlier if he should be arrested for this. In his own words he stated that he thought the killer had fled the campus. That is ridiculous. Did aliens tell him this? How could he know? There was a man loose on campus with loaded weapons killing people! He said the campus is too big and too many students to notify everyone. That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard! Instead of text messaging they should have had road blocks up preventing students from getting on campus and sirens and loudspeakers announcing everyone to get the hell off campus. That place should have been swarming with police after the first two killings. You can tell the I.Q. of America is slipping when the media is turning this terrorist into a victim! Young teenagers are openly scared of even thinking of going to a college or university with good reason! I'm glad I'm older. I feel sorry for the younger generation of this country and what they will have to face.
2007-04-18 17:48:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Some people who answered so far have asked why blame him for the killer's actions and that hindsight is 20-20. My argument is he waited way too long to notify the students (more than two hours!). That is criminal! The campus police chief should share the blame as well.
2007-04-18 18:18:50 · update #1
Hindsight is 20-20.
The president most likely was acting on the advice of his campus police, and what you suggest would be very hard to put together within the two hours or so V-T had to respond to the first murder.
In retrospect there are probably a lot of things that could have been done differently, but arresting the president of V-T is a ridiculous notion.
I would think a lockdown might have been a good idea, had anyone known what this deranged individual was about to do. But they didn't.
Your comments have some merit, but it is not the media, the police or the president of the university who is to blame for these killings. It is the man who planned and executed this horrible crime, and he is the only one who deserves blame or dishonor from the disaster.
2007-04-18 17:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Warren D 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Arrested for poor judgment? No. Maybe suspended... ANyway, details and facts are still being put together.
I definitely believe the campus should have been shut down and police notified and very present as sson as the first killings were known. When I was in college (university), there were no computers and no email, yet emergency news was spread in minutes. How about the university radio, the television news, loudspeakers, telephone...
As long as the shooter was not caught, no student was safe.
It was very poor judgment on the part of whomever waited 2 hours. Tragic as it was, I do not believe that poor judgment and lack of foresight are grounds for an arrest.
2007-04-18 17:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does everyone always point blame in an innocent persons direction after a tragic event. If this Man had to follow up on every psychotic persons comments or remarks, he wouldn't have time to do the task a hand. This is the fault of the killer, noone else pulled that trigger, noone else loaded all those clips, noone else premeditated this terrible spree of murderous rampage, this kid had problems, but there are many people who send crazy letters and threats all the time. How is anyone to know who will act on it and when, or if they even will. It happened, it's over, and so are the lives of many innocent people, that didn't deserve to have their lives end in such a senseless, cruel manner.
2007-04-18 18:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by doc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only we were all blessed with hindsight. I believe that everyone did their best to make the right decisions based on the information they had and their current policy guidelines.
Now is the time to determine what measures were right and what were wrong. What needs to remain the same and what needs to be changed not just at v tech but across the board.
As we disect this case from beginning to end we will learn where we missed a step and there will be more than one.
We owe the students of this school and every school to put out every effort and to instill whatever additional measures we
need to so they can begin to feel safe again. Now is not the time to attack employees, this is not beneficial to the students, now is the time to learn to correct what needs corrected, and hold our mourning children.
2007-04-18 18:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by searching 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wondered why they didn't evacuate campus the minute two shot people were located, with the killer at large. then not two hours later, like 30 more, right? like it or not, there had to be a window of opportunity there to avert a tragedy, and the opportunity was missed
2007-04-18 18:00:04 · answer #5 · answered by Stormy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aparently you have never been in a position where you must make decsions that are going to be wrong either way.
He did what the information he had said he should do.
Blaming him for the actions of Cho is a sad and pathetic attempt to blame someone for this.
2007-04-18 18:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Talen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he should have done lockdown from first shooting. do they have loudspeakers thru out the campus to notify students?????? he messed up and police chief of campus
2007-04-18 17:58:09 · answer #7 · answered by sillygirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋