I just have to weigh in on the whole VTech massacre because there are a few things that are really bothering me.

First off, there are a lot of angry people asking why the school wasn’t shut down after the first shooting. I call baloney sauce on that because if what I’m hearing is correct, the first part was simply a murder. Jilted lover kills his ex-girlfriend and the counselor. There are murders like this every day all over the country and the fact is we don’t shut anything down when they happen. We do police work over the course of weeks and eventually find the killer. There was no way to know what was going to happen next and I do not fault anyone for not expecting the second part after the first part.

In fact, the two incidents were so different, I’m not 100% sure that they are even connected or done by the same person.

My second compliant is in regards to the video captured on the cell phone of the cops outside the building. You can hear shots being fired inside the building and then eventually the cops go in. Now I watch that video and I say to myself, “Wow, these guys are heroes. They hardly pause before rushing into a building containing an unknown number of people firing unknown weapons, into which may or may not be an ambush booby trapped with explosives, etc.” This goes against all training not to mention common sense. Keep in mind these are not trained soldiers, they are police in a small Virginia town. I would be surprised if most of them have ever encountered someone pointing a gun at them. Now apparently, other people see that same video and start yelling that the cops didn’t rush the building faster. Talk about armchair quarterbacking! I’m sure those reporters would have run right in there and confronted the gunman (or men) with no information about what was going on, right?

I even heard one reporter say that if he was in one of the classrooms and he knew he was going to die, he would have rushed the gunman. Pretty easy to say that from the comfort of a press room!

I know that after a tragedy we all want someone to put the blame on. It is never sufficient to put the blame on the person who is actually responsible because that person usually ends up dead. So in this case it looks like the blame will be placed on the University for not locking down sooner and the police for not rushing in faster. It would be a shame if someone lost their job over this. When you are making split decisions in the face of a crisis, the last thing you need to be worried about is how people are going to comb through this mess later and find something to criticize you about.

The fact is, someone can’t be responsible to protect everyone everywhere every second of the day and sometimes bad things happen.

That is all.