Blamstorming after VA Tech

Let the blamestorming begin. Unleash the lawyers. The students and the professors are dead at Virginia Tech and someone other than the shooter has to be blamed. Someone alive. Someone with deep pockets, good liability insurance, or both. This, more than anything, is the American way.

I wonder, other than broadcasting a "Be careful" message as effectively as possible, what could or should the administrators and the police have done after the first shootings? Where would you have told 26,000 students to go to be safe on a 2600 acre campus? Who would you tell them to be on the lookout for? Why might you have suspected that the first two shootings indicated an impending massacre?

But really, the answers to those questions don't matter. What's important is for lawyers to cash in and for families to imagine that blaming someone other than the shooter will somehow help them heal.

Scratched wounds don't heal. A billion dollars won't replace one child.