2007-04-20 15:56:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
it seems like it.
they shoudlve kept the school in lockdown after the first shooting
2007-04-20 15:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember hearing the police were following 'other leads' in the first two shootings and actually had someone pulled over and were questioning him about it when the call came in about the shooting at Norris Hall. There has to be something done to prevent this sort of thing, but I'm at my wit's end to know what it is. Taking guns away from private citizens is not the answer because then only the bad guys will have weapons and things would be much worse as they would just break down your door and take everything you have - including your life - because they know you can't defend yourself. People always want to lay blame in these situations, but I think the only blame at VT belongs to Cho.
2007-04-20 23:04:41 · answer #2 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Shootings happen in towns all across the country all the time. Police generally don't shut down such a huge area simply for a shooting. There were no indications that there would be any further shootings. The first two were reportedly a domestic dispute--something that generally does not include a second mass murder.
Can you imagine if police shut down such large areas every time someone got shot? Half of all the major cities in America would be shut down all the time.
2007-04-20 23:01:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't lock down a school of that size in seconds.
They thought it was domestic violence and it was over.
What if they had closed campus? What were they going to do, keep everyone in their classrooms and not let them out? They didn't know who they were looking for. If they had locked down, he still would have had plenty of victims crowded into one place. If they had cancelled classes, he would have found lots of people just out in the open to use as targets. He would have done it somewhere. Maybe he would have gone to some other place where he thought rich people were, or opened fire in the post office or something. There was no way to prevent it and the school acted appropriately given the information they had at the time.
2007-04-20 23:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people would of not-die-if the school or police call quick tell the other schools lock doors a----killer on the lose. This kid came back went in the other school kill all thoese people. The police and School mest up by not calling other schools let them know what happen.
2007-04-20 23:27:20 · answer #5 · answered by jackie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one seems to know, or care, that he did what he did for a reason. He was not stretched out to. He did not feel needed, or even wanted anywhere. He attempted to vent through his creative writing work, but people just saw him as a creep and not someone who needed help, and went back to driving their Mercedes. But you don’t have a Mercedes? Yes, but you have more than he had. You have enough money to get by, and more importantly you have the intangibles. You have friends and you have a sense of purpose. People are too blind to realize that in his manifesto he left a bold messege-that America today is ruined. We no longer help those who need it, we brush them off. Even worse is how you avoid your problems, like how me defending a ‘mass murderer’ and condemning you will get me reported, just because you don’t like to hear what doesn’t sound good. I challenge America to change. Quite frankly I don’t believe it possible.
2007-04-20 23:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by Spearfish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously looking back at it now we can see that not enough was done. But at the time think about what the cops had to go with, an asian kid on a university campus; the guns he had fit easily into a backpack or a coat pocket, they probably had no chance of finding him.
2007-04-20 23:00:28 · answer #7 · answered by truthspeaker10 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they might have thought that it was more gropu of people...or some terrorist or something and they may be little concerened about their family to go in their...u know...and that is natural...People be in LAW ENFORCEMENT to make other follow those rules...and give traffic ticket some times...but not to WALK UP TO SOME ONE WITH GUN and say HOLLA HOLLA>>>>
2007-04-20 23:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so sure that anyone knew about the first two.
2007-04-20 22:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋