Virginia Tech

What occurred today was truly a tragedy that almost any student in America can truly relate to. We were all struck especially hard when a single shooter walked onto campus and killed 32 students and faculty before taking his own life. Ringing familiar to Columbine, which occurred almost 8 years ago to the day, only had less than half of the fatalities Vtech experienced. My heart, and I'm sure all Americans, goes out to the families and friends of all those that have suffered from the tragic events. One thing though:

Where were the cops? Maybe there's too little information to know right now, but from what I've heard, there was the first shooting at 7:15 am and the second took place 2 hours later. Why were the students even still on campus? The police should have evacuated the campus. I also heard a rumor that the police thought he was off campus. Even more of a reason to get everyone out...if you can. and especially if the shooter hasn't been caught yet. But no. Students received emails while in class about the incident. My sadness goes hand in hand with my anger at the police for not doing more to prevent the other 31 deaths. There was even video taken of gun fire that the police could not confirm if it was their own or not. how competent are these officers!? They also couldn't confirm who had killed the shooter. Whether he killed himself or the police did. Now that just worries me. This situation was handled so completely poorly, those deaths could have been minimized by a lot if the school and city police had taken the situation more seriously.