Pray For Tech

In our neck of the woods, we've had so many things going on this last week: The ETSU students voted down football, faculty changes at high schools including one of the best coaches in the area and snow cancelling our events and giving us nothing to do.

Nationally, all we've heard about is Don Imus and the Duke case.

Then today happens.

Just over an hour and a half away at Virginia Tech University, another idiot has let loose on society. Another campus changed forever. A nation changed, again.

The fact that close to 30 people are dead and another 30 wounded by a heavily armed gunman is a shock to anybody from this area. It's stunning, it's senseless, it's crazy.

Junior David Jenkins told Fox News heard screaming in the hallway in the engineering building, the shooter chained up the doors, went around the classroom and shot into each room as he went down the hall.

What kind of society do we have now? Didn't anybody learn anything from Columbine? Did anybody see any warning signs? More importantly, why wasn't every building at Virginia Tech locked up within the two hours that the gunman shot a freshman in the freshmen dorm and made his way into the engineering building?

It frustrates me to hell.

Are we at the point in our country where students aren't safe to go to a major University?

I don't know. But this is very, very sad.

--- Wes (2:14 p.m.)