About 31 people were killed with another 28 injured in two separate shooting incidents at Virginia Tech.
The first one ocurred at 7:15am at a dorm where 2 people had been shot. Two hours later the massacre occurred : After killing himself, an unidentified gunman had taken the lives of another 32 people.
The university chose not to dismiss classes or give any alerts over their public announcement system. School officials believe the first shooting was a domestic dispute and did not see any need to alert students after the 7:15am shooting. But by 9:00am there was an email already circulating asking students to stay in their class and doorooms because there was a gunman on campus [1].
This shooting goes beyond the 1999 shooting at Columbine and the 1966 University of Texas at Austin shootout. The first one left 12 high school kids and a teacher dead [2]. The second left 16 people dead [3].
Are Americans reaching a breaking point? Online and off violence seems to have been unleashed without impunity.
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