Just out of curiousity....?... Please ANSWER?

I have wondered the same thing-why the students did not try to subdue him. The only thoughts that i can come up with is that they were in shock or perhaps someone else besides him were involved. There may not have been much time to think of just how to react and we don't know someone may have tried to fight back. Perhaps we will know later on. If a person was going to die anyway or the chances were good then it would not be so bad if you died saving someone else from dying. I think we need to ask why are all these bad things happening. It is very sad when events like this take place.

Shock and panic creates different reactions in different people. There were heros in this situation too, but remember, nobody has a "plan" for when a lunatic open fires in class. I'm sure that all schools will have emergency lockdown alarms or something from now on, but who would have ever thought that this would happen? It is easy to blame authorities, but the school is HUGE and there was no way to tell everyone at once that there was a lockdown. As far as the police goes, the college is most of the population of that town and they probably don't have a huge police force. It's not like LA or NYC where there are police departments trained in all kinds of different situations, these are mostly traffic cops that get thrown into Terrorism 101. The gunman probably didn't give people time to get organized. It only takes a couple seconds to walk into a room and open fire. Depending on the setup of the classrooms, it may be very difficult to down someone, I'm sure most people's instincts would be to RUN. Hindsight is 20/20, try not to be too judgemental. These people were not given the chance to think about the situation and they did what they could on instinct.

I'm a public relations specialist at a small college, and I can tell you we do spend hours in meetings trying to cover all the "what-ifs" for our Crisis Communication Plan. The sad truth is that it simply isn't feasible to lock down an entire campus, especially a huge, open campus like VT.

People are often frozen by fear - time moves slowly and in large groups there is usually the feeling of "somebody else will do something, so I don't have to;" this has been scientifically proven. Faculty aren't any different either - at that moment, their families and children are probably flashing through their heads (I know mine would be), and all they can think about is surviving.

paradoxically, humans are both social and solitary creatures. Our brains are hardwired to know when the odds are against us and initiate survival mode accordingly. No amount of rationalizing in hindsight can change that.

Lastnight, I was talking to my parents about the same thing. But in reality. Most people cant think rationally when something like that is going on. I mean u can say if u were put in that position u'd do something, but when u actually are put in that position you probably dont think like that. Also, there were few people willing to risk their lives to save others, but most people dont want to die, and theyd rather do nothing, and jump out of a window than try to take down a psychopath, which is understandable. When a situation like this happens...... common sense kind of flies out the window.

First, my heart goes out the victims and their families. But say there was a class of 30 students he could have shot all 30 of them because not everyone would be willing to jump in front of 2 Glocks nines! Do you know how many rounds a Glock nine can fire in 2 seconds lady? But I do see where you were trying to go with it though.

You said it yourself, it is after the fact when we think of these things. I think if I were in that situation, I would have done the same things many of those students did, duck and cover. I wouldn't want to get hurt, and I wouldn't want any of friends to get hurt. I think the outcome of rushing him would depend on many factors. When he was rushed, how many people rushed him, if he saw it coming... I mean, we could be having the opposite discussion if those students rushed him. "Why didn't they duck and cover in the classrooms to protect themsleves?" There is a lot of questions about this whole situation, and we are never going to know the answers. Dwelling on the would of, should of, could of is not going to get anyone anywhere.

go to:

CBS.com & look up :

CBS COULDN'T SHUT HIM UP/ Andy Rooney

Read it !!!!! IT's Great !!!!!

And ya know what??? Unless you are actually put into that situation, you don't know how you'd react.... Cho, was a very disdraught, very disgruntled, very ignorant, and mentally un-stable person.......

Physiologist"s and other professionals still don't know what makes people "SNAP"...... Cho, could have gotten a bad grade, his gf could have left, his family may have received bad news...... who knows what triggered him or set him off ???? AND NO, I'm not defending him...... as a matter of fact, I personally believe that when this case is resolved,,,,and the dust is settled, they'll probably find that Cho was a drug user..... I mean, com'mon ??? Who'd do this horrible horrible deed,,,,if in their right mind????

I don't think we need to be instructing kids on how to do a tacticle take down of an armed intruder as a group. I don't think it would work and why make kids go through that type of trauma-always thinking they need to be on the look out for the next person to harm them. What type of life would that be and how on earth could they learn in that type of setting.

logically we can think of that, but when you get put under stress more blood goes to the rest of your body than the brain aka Flight or Flight

Most people do not know what they will do until the event happens. and everyone has "lockdown" procedures and procedures to warn others, but usually people do not kill someone then hide for two hours and then start a shooting rampage

most people in a college are focused on their future, they dont have time to deal with teenage crap, like being an outcast and feeling sorry for themselves. No one ever expected something like this to happen in such a civilized and educated facility.

And of course no one is going to rush to him and risk getting shot, everone is waiting on someone else to do it, they would rather it be someone else instead of them getting killed