Thursday, April 19, 2007

Rapid Resonse Could Have Saved LIves

Being a right wing law and order advocate it is somewhat disconcerting for me to write this blog, but it must be said. The so called "first response" people dropped the ball in the Virginia Tech murders.
The perpetrator of the 32 murders had a history of run ins with the campus police for harassing female students on two occasions in 2005. His poetry had him removed from her class upon asking for his removal or she would tender her resignation. Why? Because his poetry writings were so violent and obscene. additionally, he was sent to a Psychiatric facility in 2005 because of his erratic behavior for observation.
Each one of these incidents by itself was not enough to have him removed from the University, but collectively they were in my opinion reason enough to have him suspended and directed to get medical help before he was readmitted.
Admittedly with campus as large as VT it would have been impossible to keep him off campus, but he could have been denied a student pas to enter the halls where he committed his murders.
Once the two murders were discovered in the dormitory there is no legitimate reason to not lock down the school buildings. The only reason imaginable is to keep the image of the University in good light. This is not the purpose of the leaders of a place we send our children to learn. We ask and expect that there well being be preserved while they are on campus. Two and one-half hours between killings is obscene in the light of the terrorist awareness we Americans have today.
The blame game will not bring back the 32 who were killed by this crazed and fanatical killer, but maybe it will make some of the places we send our children off to learn safer places due to vigilance and rapid action. At least I hope and pray so!

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