OK, it is not anyone's fault! It was a horrifying incident. Nothing anyone could have forseen....

or stopped.

I had a knee-jerk reaction at first being angry at the school for not locking down everyone and making sure that the students and the faculty were safe.

It was a terrible tragedy. It is not the fault of gun laws, irresponsible campus administrators, anti-depressant medication, et al..

This guy flipped-out. Know one could have known that he was going to go crazy on the school the way he did. He was obviously mentally ill and not only did the school innocently not catch it, but neither did his family.

You cannot predict these things, if you could we would have never seen any of the mass shootings that we have seen over the years.

I know the boy started a small fire and was stalking someone. But what would have prevented him from walking on the campus and doing the same thing as an expelled student...nothing.

It is just one of those horrible things that occurs in our society.

It is time to relax. Send healing vibes to the families and hope that they can find some peace. Including the family of the shooter.

...always easy to play the Monday-Morning-Quarterback game.

There's no way to anticipate something like this. You can't plan for it; there's no defense. What are we going to do - lock up every person who's moody, depressed or unsocial? :shrug:

Sometimes people just snap. That's the way it is. All we can do is hope that we're not around when it happens and offer help, compassion and support to the people who are. :-(

So "nothing anyone could have foreseen" is off the table.

Seriously. What were their options? :shrug:

Heard he was referred to a counselor for the content of his writings.

Really, you need to chill. It is no ones fault! It was a freak happening and quit holding innocent well-meaning people accountable.

One of his professors desperately tried to get help for him. He terrified her. Nada.

She went to the cops. She was interviewed and said so. SO PEOPLE WERE INFORMED. PEOPLE KNEW.

I repeat. "Unforeseen" is off the table.

However, it still would not have stopped the mystifying events. Sometimes unfair and unexplainable things happen in this world. It isn't anyone's fault.

This may be unfair but it isn't unexplainable. As for fault...how many people knew this boy was in deep trouble?

If someone would have told anyone, ANYONE, that this person was going to slaughter 32 people on July 16th, and then no one did anything; then you would have someone to blame.

As it stands, no one is deserving of the blame for the deaths of 33 people.

Pundits and Specialists raving on for days on the TV...can't really tell us the truth. It just is a terrible thing that happened and somethings ...just can't be explained. Even thought incidents like this are used to forward agenda's for one group or the other...and the issues about this deserve some inward looking...the amount of time spent on it...in the end...comes down to..IT WAS A TRAGEDY. And we are always going to have something like this every few years and it causes us to wonder WHY...and HOW it could have happened.

But, no matter what we do...something like this WILL happen again. We maybe can make it happen less with examination and that's what folks work on. :shrug:

Shit happens. Always has and always will. And it's usually unpredictable.

I mean, this happens so infrequently, that no school can be expected to be any good at preventing a shooting. You can't lock the students out of the buildings, so you can't lock armed psychos out, either.

In my K-5 school they've got 70 year old ladies manning the "security" desk. They're usually reading the paper, doing word searches or knitting. If an armed gunman blasts open the glass doors and runs in firing, what in the hell is she really supposed to do about it? What would anyone, short of a swat team, be able to do about it? We can't station swat teams in front of every school in america, and we shouldn't.

Sure, the security personnel didn't do the job, but no other college will have any better responses, unless they're already in a dangerous neighborhood.

This does not, in my mind, say anything about the college or the town.