How?

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• Almost 24 hours after yesterday's shootings at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA it has been made known that the gunmen was in fact a student.
  
  The gunmen, who later shot himself has been identified as Cho Sueng Hui, 23. He has been described by newspapers and officials as a South Korean resident alien, and English major in his senior year at Virginia Tech.
  
  I understand that the 2,600 acre campus is extremely large, and that there are in fact 36, 000 student and faculty on the campus. But I find it so strange that the campus was not shut down, or more efforts made after the first shooting that occurred in a dorm room that killed two. I understand that they thought it to be an isolated incident, but I feel that precautions should have been taken, it could have possibly prevented the second episode which left 32 dead.
  
  I feel that so often simple measures can be taken to prevent such great tragedies. I feel that anytime such a violent act occurs in a place, especially a school, whether it kills one or twenty, it should be shut down and under strict security until the area can be declared secure.
  
  I feel great pain and sorrow for all of the people who lost their lives, or they're loved ones in this tragedy. It just leaves me wondering what could cause a person to take 32 lives in cold blood. To line innocent people up in a class room and execute them. It is something that I can absolutely not understand. But I must say that I hope that our country is not completely desensitized to this kind of horrific event, because whether it is people dying in war, in terrorist attacks, or in their classrooms they deserve our compassion, our sympathy, our sadness for them and their loss. People both living and dying deserved to be remembered.