Friday, December 10, 2010

Virginia Tech official in denial before shootings and after report

the neThat Hincker thinks he and his colleagues acted appropriately is hardly surprising though. After all, this is the same administrator who, before the shootings, publicly ridiculed an adult student advocating for campus concealed carry... [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that denial is sometimes the result of being clueless, and other times a tactic to avoid consequences.

Share the link?  Just think--in about a minute, you personally could notify more people about this than Hincker et al. did when lives were at stake, and it took them over two hours. 

2 comments:

Defender said...

How liberating it must be not to have a conscience.
I don't think the Tech administration had any special concern for the safety of the trash collectors; the workman's compensation payments would have been massive, not to mention the hourly employee life insurance rates going up.
Remember that Hincker and President Steger stuck to their (no) guns after a campus kitchen-knife BEHEADING a year later. That kind of makes Hincker's comment about "hindsight" double-damning.

Mack said...

David,

Not sure why you used the AP as the news source -- the Roanoke Times (RT) has taken the lead on the Cho incident from the beginning.

The article here ...

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/270322

also includes the U.S. Department of Education documents. Worth reading.