Maggotx Rant on the 4/16 Massacre

In Memoriam of the Virginia Tech Victims......

As you probably know, I've been out of work due to surgery for about a week now....Although this Blog is usually humorous (or it tries to be) the horrible events at VA Tech have really pissed me off. I was able to watch this event unfold on TV during the entire day. It was startling to watch a videotape in which you could hear shots being fired by the Killer and hear students screaming while watching about one hundred SWAT, Sheriffs Office, FBI, County Police as well as tons of unidentified gun-toting officials doing nothing. This event took place over a 20 minute period. Yet not ONE shot was fired by the large number of police. Thank Gods the Murderer took his own life, because if he hadn't who knows how many more would have died while the police watched.

Normally, I'm a supporter of Policemen, The have a very tough job, but when the community spends HUGE sums of money to equip, train, employ and cater to these Tac SWAT Teams, it would be nice if they showed up for work. They are all so concerned about the "Command Zone", "Containment", "site perimeter", "crisis negotiation", "crisis entry", "Incident Command"...YADA YADA. that they can't see the forest for the trees......sometimes you just have to take action instead of talking about it.......

They all looked really impressive, too bad the only time they broke a sweat was hauling out the poor kids bodies......