The shootings
Apr. 17th, 2007 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusI hold in the light the students and faculty of Virginia Tech. I don't know what else to say about the incident.
On the other hand, I've heard disturbing but unsurprising remarks by the terminally clueless. While tuning my portable radio, I stumbled across someone opining darkly that There Will Be A Reckoning over the response from VT to the initial shootings -- as in, why weren't they prescient enough to realize that those were the opening shots in a campaign of terror? Segue smoothly from that into an immigration rant. Wow. Real helpful. I'm glad I didn't catch the moron's name. 700 on the AM dial, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 last night.
I heard a student wonder aloud why they didn't immediately lock the campus down based on the first two shootings -- shootings that have not yet been definitely connected with the rampage in Norris. I heard the president of Tech and the campus police chief speak on their thought processes. I don't see where they were derelict in considering those shootings to be a domestic quarrel of some sort, and they believed that the perpetrator had left the campus and was probably leaving the state.
It is way too early to start the political posturing over this. Have a shred of decency, people! I know that is difficult for some of you out there, but please try.
On the other hand, I've heard disturbing but unsurprising remarks by the terminally clueless. While tuning my portable radio, I stumbled across someone opining darkly that There Will Be A Reckoning over the response from VT to the initial shootings -- as in, why weren't they prescient enough to realize that those were the opening shots in a campaign of terror? Segue smoothly from that into an immigration rant. Wow. Real helpful. I'm glad I didn't catch the moron's name. 700 on the AM dial, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 last night.
I heard a student wonder aloud why they didn't immediately lock the campus down based on the first two shootings -- shootings that have not yet been definitely connected with the rampage in Norris. I heard the president of Tech and the campus police chief speak on their thought processes. I don't see where they were derelict in considering those shootings to be a domestic quarrel of some sort, and they believed that the perpetrator had left the campus and was probably leaving the state.
It is way too early to start the political posturing over this. Have a shred of decency, people! I know that is difficult for some of you out there, but please try.
