Is VA Tech to blame

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Blame for what?

Cho is to blame for killing the folks on the VA Tech campus.

VA Tech needs to address their own response to what happened - but that is very different than saying they are to blame for the slaugther. If it was one of my kids that gunned down, I'm sure I'd want a very lengthy explaination of why the situation was addressed as it was.

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Blame for what?

Cho is to blame for killing the folks on the VA Tech campus.

VA Tech needs to address their own response to what happened - but that is very different than saying they are to blame for the slaugther. If it was one of my kids that gunned down, I'm sure I'd want a very lengthy explaination of why the situation was addressed as it was.

Yes, but the thing is, a double homicide would have tied up most "small town" police departments, whether it be a college or my town. My town, plant city, is approximately the same size as VT and I'd imagine if a double murder occured on one side of town, no one, and I repeat no one would expect the killer(s) to go across town and shoot up a grocery store/shopping plaza, etc. This is just one of those extraordinary events that no real good answer can solve.

That's true States - but that shouldn't stop the parents from getting an explaination they can understand or demanding a policy change to security, they are entitled to their opinions after all. I'm not saying that VA Tech screwed up terribly (I don't know enough to say one way or the other) with their response - but they are accountable for their response.

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The last place I would want to be is in a hormonally charged closed society with a bunch of binge-drinking gun-toting college kids. 

How true, how true. College kids are often managing (or more likely not managing in any way, shape or form) stress for the first time in their lives. Substance abuse, eating disorders and depression are common place at colleges across the country. Arming a bunch of kids learning about life and how to deal with it is just asking for things like the VA Tech slaughter to become common place as well.