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Many people have said that VTech was right in not shutting down the university after the "not unusual" first shooting. I think the University was very much at fault. They should have locked down the University until they knew the whereabouts of the gunman. What kind of Keystone Kops system accepts a murder without trying to trace the murderer? Obviously they did nothing or gave up -- the press reports said they assumed the killer ran, assumed!
In addition, with two bomb threats earlier in the week, Campus Security should have been on heightened alert. And while you can't have a security guard in front of every classroom, you damn well should have one in every building. They did in my school, and we didn't have any bomb threats.
So many of the people interviewed said "oh, this is a small town, in the middle of nowhere, nothing ever happens here." I think VT was the victim of its own complacency.
