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Blacksburg, Virginia is a quiet, idyllic town in Southwestern Virginia. It is the sort of place where people leave their cars (and often their homes) unlocked, where neighbors can be counted on to run into one another at the grocery store, and where rush hour constitutes more than ten cars in the four or five block downtown area. While large scale violence anywhere is stunning, a shooting which kills at least 22 people is unheard of in a town like Blacksburg, Virginia. To have woken up to any sort of disturbance on their campus, let alone something of this magnitude, must have been a horrible shock for Virginia Tech students. Violence is rare on this campus, with the exception of the escaped inmate situation in 2006, which ended with one Blacksburg deputy dead. However, Virginia Tech has apparently been on high alert for some time now, after a bomb threat on April 2 and another on April 13. West Ambler Johnston, where the first shooting this morning at approximately 7:15am EST occurred, is a large residence hall housing mostly freshmen. The hallways of West AJ, as it is popularly called, can be confusing due to the building's shape, particularly for those who are not familiar with the building's layout for whatever reason. The building is four stories tall, and surrounded by sidewalks on virtually all sides. These factors combined must have made the situation all the more terrifying for students and, no doubt, spelled disaster for those who apparently panicked and jumped out their windows. Norris Hall, on the opposite side of campus and the site of the second, more deadly shooting is predominantly used for engineering courses. It is very near the main administration building (Burruss Hall) and in the center of campus. As the cell phone footage released from one student suggests, accessing the building from the front is difficult and must be done on sidewalks rather than roads. The fact that police vehicles had to drive on sidewalks and potentially grass (due to steps) must have slowed response time slightly, adding another element of difficulty to an already nearly impossible situation. While not the largest school disaster in U.S. history (an explosion at a Bath Michigan school killed 45 in 1927), this shooting is one of the largest purposeful violent acts and certainly brings to mind the high school shootings at Columbine. At a school as large as Virginia Tech, with over 28,000 full time students, it is easy for students experiencing trauma or tragedy to be overlooked and get "lost in the crowd." Perhaps the one thing that we can hope to gain out of this horrible tragedy is a better awareness of the signs of mental illness and a willingness to reach out to others. Meanwhile, for the residents of a sleepy little town in Virginia, the healing process will be a long, hard one as they struggle to make sense of today's events. |
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