Virginia Tech probe finds no fault in massacre response

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An internal review of the actions Virginia Tech took in the hours after student Seung-Hui Cho's April shooting spree makes suggestions to boost security but assigns no blame for the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

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It recommends many improvements -- ranging from locks on classroom doors to overhauling the campus communications system -- but doesn't fault any university or police officials for the way they handled the massacre.

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The 23-year-old student had been described as a loner by his roommates, and the violence in his writings had worried his teachers. After Cho expressed suicidal thoughts to a roommate, who then alerted others, Cho was given a psychological evaluation and a judge ordered he be treated.

But that order was not entered into the criminal background database, and Cho was able to buy the two guns he used in the shooting spree.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/22/vtech.review/index.html

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Sounds to me like the gun sellers and manufacturers are where the buck stops. Sue away, families.

[Kagemusha]

1. Uh, I thought the shooter bought his guns perfectly legally?

How're the families gonna get a dime suing them then?

[Posteritatis]

3. Come on, you don't expect logic to factor into contemporary lawsuits, do you?

Absurd lawsuits happen after every one of these. I think the Columbine shooters' parents got sued for four or five hundred million dollars, for instance. I'm almost certain it went nowhere, but every time something like this happens, that's attempted.

Either way, whatever people do in response to this, the horse has well and truly been stolen.

[sofa king]

2. What? A non-crime was not entered into the criminal background database?

Because if we could just add non-criminal things like, say, "vehement political opposition to the President and his policies" to the criminal databases, then every single one of us here could carry it like a badge of honor for the rest of our lives.

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4. Sure... sue away... it's the American way after all.

Fortunately though, Federal law limits lawsuits against firearms dealers and manufacturers from the sort of nonsense you propose.

The families will have to look elsewhere for their blood money.