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    Default Re: Virginia Tech shooting

    Quote Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
    The big controversy over this will be that 2 people were initially killed in a dorm building, but the school didn't stop classes and there was nothing like a lockdown since the killer was supposed to have been off campus. It was only a majority of the killings occurred 2 hours later when the person started shooting in the engineering building.

    I don't care if the killer has gotten away, 2 students have died on school property in a dorm housing 900 people, I would at least stop classes for the day which might have prevented the later massacre
    would it be possible to stop classes that quickly? 900 people are a lot to communicate too, and it seemed at the time as though the incident was over, i can't think of an incident where their have been 2 seperate shootings --> any action tkane like closing the school could also have negative consequecnes, it would cause much uneeded panic, especially as these things tend to get exagerated etc..

    basically, it's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight...

    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk

    If something positive and long lasting does come out of this then good. I'm fed up with in every walk of like empty platitudes for a few days / weeks then everything returns to how it was before.
    --> sadly it will soon be forgotten...

    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
    GUNS ARE BANNED ON CAMPUS (and on mine, everything down to airsoft guns are too).
    As with most college campuses, having a gun on campus will get you expelled.
    Is this generally adhered too? (rules are too often broken)

    If they had not disarmed all the victims, this might have gone very differently.
    lets just have 200 people with guns instead of 2, thats really going to solve the problem of shootings....
    Last edited by Scurvy; 04-17-2007 at 01:54.

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