Re:Be careful what you wish for (Score 1)

Cancelling classes immediately after the first incident is NOT an "overly aggressive lock-down" NOR a "draconian, presumptive, knee-jerk response" NOR a "police state" -- it WOULD have been a move on the side of caution and safety and COULD have saved lives. I'm not "blaming" VT (I live in Blacksburg and my wife is a student at VT, but she was not on campus yesterday), but I do think that they were a bit presumptuous to think that the first shooting was an isolated incident or that the shooter had fled the area. I would (and I'm sure that many others here would agree) rather the University had been more cautious and canceled classes immediately upon learning of the first incident and lost a day of classes than all those lives in Norris Hall.