I don't think they should've, and if they tried it would have failed. This question is geared more towards the people who believe Virginia Tech should've been put on lock down after the first shooting on Monday. Are these same people going to be equally as vocal about the fact that thousands of acres of Houston were not put on lock down while a murderer was on the loose, or will they realize how impossible that really is to do?
2007-04-20 20:25:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Mopp - I too live in Virginia. My father went to Tech; my brother went to Tech; and my sister went to Tech; as well as my best friend and various other close friends. I have been going to the Tech campus since the early 1980's. Having been there yourself, you know that the majority of students live off campus. You must also know that most students do not get up and read their e-mail, watch the news, nor (thanks to the advent of the Ipod and CD's) do they listen to the radio. You are right, the campus itself is only hundreds of acres, but when one adds the amount of land encompassing that on which the multiple off campus houses and apartment complexes reside, it becomes the entire city of Blacksburg. I'm sure the authorities understood that most students would not find out about the first shooting any other way than by word of mouth. Locking down the school would have been impossible.
2007-04-20 21:06:26 · update #1
scruffy - Virginia Tech IS Blacksburg. By putting the campus on lockdown, that monster would have been forced to carry out his plan somewhere else in the city. He was bent on causing destruction, and if he couldn't do it at the school, he would have done it at a grocery store, a restaurant, or any other location filled with people. There was nothing that could have been done to stop this guy after he started. Any action to stop the carnage should have been taken before hand, and even that would have been near impossible to do.
2007-04-21 06:44:41 · update #2
The tragedy of yesterday was just that, a tragedy. The unfortunate thing is that a person, who by current news is here on a Visa, got access to a few guns and killed a lot of people. This has re-sparked the debate over gun control. Those among us who believe that if there were no guns allowed in society this would not have happened seem to forget that there are no guns allowed on the campus of VT. That rule did not stop a crazed individual from exacting terror among those who were unable to protect themselves. News accounts also indicate that the campus security does not carry weapons.
We can all state our opinion, but the investigation there is far from over, we need to see more result of investigation before we start to jump to our opinion to quickly, right now we need to just be supportive of the victims families and friends.
2007-04-20 20:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A CITY is not put on lockdown when there is a shooting in a FACILITY in that city.
No one is saying that all of Blacksburg, Virginia should have been put on lockdown... only the facility - V Tech - where the shooting occurred.
According to reports, this is in the policy manual of Virginia Tech Univ. (as it is in the policy manual of MANY schools across the U.S.). The university SHOULD have been in lockdown mode, not only according to modern common sense, but also according to V Tech's own policy manual.
Not the whole city-- just the facility.
**EDIT** The school had a responsibility to protect the STUDENTS at Virginia Tech. They had a plan they could have activated, but failed to activate. Maybe the guy would have gone to another facility... but I guarantee you THIS. If he had started at 7a.m. at a Wal-Mart... Wal-Mart would not be open with "business as usual" 2 hours later. V Tech had a lockdown policy, which it did not use, because it ASSUMED the killer had fled. I'm sorry, but V Tech was NOT responsible for all the citizens in Blacksburg, just the students. Lockdown may not have saved everyone, but now we'll never know what "coulda" been done if everyone had done what they "shoulda."
I, too went to a university in a rural place, where the students made up the majority of the town's population.
2007-04-21 11:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 word from the dean and the school could have been shut down.
A city is much larger and goes 24/7 and not on the same schedule as a school A school is pretty much all on the same schedule. In 2hrs, all classes could have been canceled or ended. That doesn't work for a city.
As you said a city is thousands of acres. A school is not. I've been there. I grew up in VA. I have lots of friends at VT. It's not THAT big. It's alot smaller than you think.
2007-04-21 03:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by Mopp 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i agree with you bcuz when the first reports came in today the gunman was not 'at large', they knew exactly where he was and they knew that everyone else was safe. however i think they should have put V-tech on lockdown cuz two ppl were killed in the first shooting and then the gunman escaped back into publicity.
2007-04-21 03:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why lock down all of Houston over a single man on foot, holed up in a single room of a building on a sprawling campus?
These incidents are a bit too "coincidental" for me. Something seems a bit manufactured about the timing, I guess..
2007-04-21 03:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Houston was not on lockdown.
The building at the NASA space center was on lockdown, and that's standard procedure.
2007-04-21 03:28:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
absolutely not. that is a preposterous thing to do because the man let the woman go eventually and shot himself. threat eliminated.
2007-04-23 01:55:57 · answer #7 · answered by KelBean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its bedtime for ya'll dont you think?...lock down Houston?...there are 15 million people there....
2007-04-21 04:22:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
some schools were on lockdown.
2007-04-21 18:18:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋