think it was handled as well as can be expected.The leader ship at VT can not plan for every possible contingency.I have no doubt that the top priority of all decision makers was the safety of the students.Of course hindsight will allow us to evaluate and criticize every decision in this chain of events,but these decision makers did not have the luxury of time,they were caught in the middle of a situation that I am guessing none of you would be willing to be put in.
As for a lockdown...you can't lock down a university of 30k students,especially one in which many of the students are commuters.That school is bigger than the town in which it is located...we do not expect the police to shut down an entire town during a violent incident.
