Virginia Tech Tragedy
A tragic day yesterday for Virginia Tech University. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims of the (at this time) unidentified gunman. Already we are seeing people making this tragedy into a political statement. Fingers are being pointed, and blame trying to be placed. In trying to find some meaning to this situation, many are jumping to conclusions, and/or expecting answers to questions that are still being made. I would like to ask people in general, the same thing that I have told people here at my work (where I am writing this), and that is that this situ ation will take many days, if not weeks to fully unravel. And, with the sole (apparently at this time) gunman taking his life after taking the lives of 32 others, we will truly never know exactly what drove this tragic event. That said, I would like to make a couple of observations about what I have seen and heard by the media. Much is being made on why the school wasn ’ t locked down after the initial sho...