One of the things bothering me from the media's coverage is the "why didn't VT go into 'lockdown' mode" after the first shooting? I don't know how Va Tech's buildings are designed, but not many of the university buildings where I work have gates that come down and lock people in. And we have a good combination of building built in the 70s and brand new buildings. I'm not sure how many colleges/universities have these gates. Sure most high schools do, but it's a much different environment on a campus.

The other thing bothering me was an absolutely assanine question asked by a reporter to the Va Tech president yesterday. Some fool had the nerve to ask "what are you going to do to prevent that this can never happen again?" Who asked this question - an intern? Are you kidding me? What adequate response could the VT president possibly give that would not be roundly attacked? I wish the president would have said "the same guarantee you can give, moron: none. But we're going to put as many measures in place to improve our response time, etc. in case anything like this incident were to occur in the future."