Jumping To Conclusions
Or – why there was a two hour delay in tracking down the shooter at Virginia Tech. I think a fisking is in order.
After two people, Emily Jane Hilscher, a freshman, and Ryan Clark, the resident adviser whose room was nearby in the dormitory, were shot dead, the campus police began searching for Karl D. Thornhill, who was described in Internet memorials as Ms. Hilscher’s boyfriend.
Because, as we know, whenever a woman is murdered, it’s the boyfriend who did it. Or the Husband.
According to a search warrant filed by the police, Ms. Hilscher’s roommate had told the police that Mr. Thornhill, a student at nearby Radford University, had guns at his town house. The roommate told the police that she had recently been at a shooting range with Mr. Thornhill, the affidavit said, leading the police to believe he may have been the gunman.
Those darn gun-owners. It’s such suspicious behavior, legally owning a firearm.
But as they were questioning Mr. Thornhill, reports of widespread shooting at Norris Hall came in, making it clear that they had not contained the threat on campus. Mr. Thornhill was not arrested, although he continues to be an important witness in the case, the police said.
OOOOOOOOPS!
At the time of the dormitory shootings, Col. W. Steven Flaherty, the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said, “There was certainly no evidence or no reason to think that there was anyone else at that particular point in time.â€
Um … Colonel? Usually helps to actually LOOK for evidence. Just a thought. I know it is cheap and easy to just jump to conclusions and tag the man, but some small pretense of some actual police work might be in order.
State officials continued to defend the actions of the campus authorities. John W. Marshall, the Virginia secretary of public safety, said Charles W. Steger, the president of Virginia Tech, and Chief Wendell Flinchum of the campus police “made the right decisions based on the best information that they had available at the time.â€
Gee. Govenment officials closing ranks and excusing their own.
There’s a shock.
At an afternoon news briefing, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Dr. Steger had asked him to appoint a committee to examine the university’s response and try to answer some of the remaining questions about the gunman’s actions.
In other words, exoneration of the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and citations of merit for the non-participants.
Same old, same old.
Oh – lest I disappoint the femherroid trolls who prowl here – let’s see – who is the biggest proponent of “blame the man first?” That’s right. Feminists. You can thank them in a good part that two dead turned into thirty-three dead. But hey – the meme was followed. All hail the ideology.
Consider them thirty one sacrifices to the Goddess.
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Lets see. We got a dead woman. We also have a dead man, but the important thing here is that we have a dead woman. We now have the name of her boyfriend and that we have a witness who tells us the boyfriend legally owns firearms.
Well that otta be good enough for a search warrant and an APB!
He’s been pulled over? Great! We don’t have to lock down the campus.
Everything is under control.
I have to say, as this is presented, and the fact that in such cases the perp knew the victim…it is precisly the VAWA prejudice which kept the school friom being locked down.
EXCELLENT point!
The cost of VAWA continues to mount………..
And in this instance, it’s head count.