Thursday, April 19, 2007

Free Advice

This is some free advice to the nation after the tragic events at Virginia Tech. I cannot stress this advice enough, STOP LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME. The stories that seem to be pouring forth now all realte to the university knowing of the students mental state and the response to the tragedy by law enforcment officials. Dont look to blame the university for not having done something with the mentally fragile student. They are not in a position to force an unwilling studnet to receive help all they can do is offer the services. Second what are they supposed to do with the student, have him on 24 hour watch, that is not feasible or realistic in any way. As I said in my previous post the law enforcment officials acted in a manner at the time that made sense to a murder and that was to look for a suspect who knew the victim, not a random studnet who was unstable. Virignia Tech is larger than many small towns, it is larger than the one I live in and it is impossible to provide ever present security or video cameras as my brother has commented due to financial reasons. The college campus is one of the safest places to be, it is rocked by a one in a billion occurence and all of a sudden the campus police are supposed to automatically know how to respond to the situation of a mass murderer? This line of logic does not make sense. Again, stop looking for someone to blame, the one to blame is dead and took the cowards way out. The only thing that we as a nation and the community of Virginia Tech can do is heal, it is a long process with many questions that lack solid answers at this point. So for one last time, stop looking to blame someone other than the murderer who comitted these acts, that is where the responsibility lies and that is whom is to blame.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with you 100%. Nobody can offer a guarantee of protection to anyone else. Ultimately we all need to be able to protect ourselves.

4:59 PM  

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