Give them a break

Maybe more on this tomorrow; I don't know. But for now I just want to comment about one aspect in the aftermath of the shooting at Virginia Tech. You're right: I don't know what it's like to lose a child, from any cause much less something like this. But I definitely know what it's like to be blamed for something I had no control over.

What I'm referring to is this: The university president and the police chief were acting on all the information they had at the time. When they sent out the initial alert and closed down the dorm where the first killing occured, they had no reason to think additional killings would follow.

It's a very easy thing to look back and say, "They should have this or that." But all they had to go on was the evidence from the initial 2 killings. They acted responsibly, based on the evidence at hand.

I'm sorry the parents and other family members lost their loved ones. But it's not the fault of the university president nor of the police chief. Give them a break.