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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3457923" data-attributes="member: 39593">This is a sad day and many people died.It doesn't matter what the talking heads say, whether it's a suicide bomber or a shooter if someone wants to kill and is willing to die nothing can prevent it they will find a way.The response of the police on the scene was inexcusable.  They simply jumped to an unsupported conclusion and completely missed blatant common-sensical actions that could have at least moderated the losses.  A swarm of police congregated on the dorm and began the "usual suspects" procedure when they should have secured the immediate scene then swept for suspicious activity on campus given that they had an unknown hostile loose and his last known position was the campus.  The university administration like bureacracy everywhere proved itself unsuited to taking swift and effective action, it dropped the ball inexcusably.  Unfortunately I expect the response to be far worse than the actual incident.  In the aftermath of Columbine it created a paranoia among schools and police that resulted in rampant harassment of anyone who didn't fit in.  Profiling based on nothing more than half-baked quack-psychology, stereotyping, and in-group discrimination hurt a lot of people.  I expect that to repeat to an extent, hopefully not as much but I won't hold much hope of that.  Too many people respond irrationally to the sort of incident that is highly rare and allow it to alter an entire realm of society.</blockquote>

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