April 16, 2007

Why?


7:15 a.m.: Two people are murdered in the West Ambler Johnston dormitory.

9:45 a.m.: A shooter executes 32 people and injures over 25 more.

Two people are murdered at quarter after seven and Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum and university president Charles Steger not only did not have a campus lock-down, but allowed classes to continue on schedule? Steger then has the nerve to say that he’s at a loss for words to understand how it happened?

It’s terrible enough to know that a madman was willing to take 32 innocent lives and injure almost 30 more. It’s worse to know that it might have been prevented had Steger and Flinchum initiated a lock-down and cancelled classes for the day.

It might be an institution of higher education, but the people at the top apparently lack intelligence.