Shooting at Va. Tech

I think that's the key right there. Apparently the roommate told them that the boyfriend had guns. The first suspect is always the boyfriend/husband. If they are known to have guns, and left the location a short while earlier, how can you fault them for assuming he was the shooter?

Absolute bad luck that the boyfriend happened to leave that morning and that he was known to have guns. Without that, they would have had a different situation. Would they then have locked down campus? Maybe. Maybe not. We'll never now.

 

Here's the problem with that line of thought. The professor, Roy, has been teaching long enough to differentiate between horror and Stephen King wanna bes and serious mental problems.

From the abc.com story:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/VATech/story?id=3050437&page=1
"I've been teaching for 22 years, and there've only been a couple of times when I thought that this is a really, really worrying thing," Roy says today. "And this was one of them."

 

They did think it was a domestic incident and the shooter fled the scene. See, boyfriend with guns according to roommate of first victim.

 

It was reported yesterday that Cho had once started a fire in his dorm. Haven't seen anything about it today. Has anybody seen anything about it?

 

I didn't see that but saw a story where he was twice reported to cops for stalking women.

 

So he was a Porno for Pyros, woman stalking, gun yeilding, shitty-essay writting lunatic? Does that sum it up?

 

He didn't talk, either. Heard a student who worked in the cafeteria interviewed and she would see him every day and ask him what he would like and he would just point. Not say anything.

 

Another voice very quiet on this shooting has been Rev. Jerry Falwell. This ocurred in his backyard.

 

Yeah, BBAM's description would almost be considered complementary. He also didn't talk in class at all, either. You wonder how he made it to senior year. In one class, he signed his name on the attendance roster as ?. (Of course, if I were the professor, I would have had fun with that one--'how are the Mysterians?')

He appears to be about as anti-social a human being as you'll ever a run across. A depressed soul with no lust for life who decided it wasn't worth living anymore.

Unfortunately, he took 32 with him who had all the right reasons to live.

 

The shooter's parents have reportedly been hospitalized with shock (not suicide attempts, as reported somewhere):

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261805

 

The shooter took time to send off a package to NBC News in New York.

Utterly unbelievable.

 

How did this guy slip off like this?

He had time to return - reportedly - to his dorm room....write a manifesto and send a package to NBC News......then going on the shooting spree.