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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somewhat off-topic, but my DS is a first year at UVA. With the news about the shooter’s multiple guns in his room and what the University knew about him before Sunday, my DS is feeling enraged at the University administration. He wants to mourn these students but not feel that about his college. [/quote]

I’m a Tech alum and I was a freshman during the shooting there. It is a normal reaction To this kind of event. I agree with the suggestion of therapy to talk it through. Unfortunately, when college students can legally purchase firearms you are going to have this sort of thing happen over and over again. I hate to sound so trite, but I’m speaking as someone who went through the same emotions as an 18/19 year old. [/quote]

[b]Anger is a completely normal reaction. Check out this info from UVA and ignore the haters on here.
 
https://news.virginia.edu/content/moving-forward-how-should-parents-interact-their-students-over-break?utm_source=UFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news&fbclid=IwAR2YUv7Nl5R64cbssIfmgEs_RkZg9UdKrjg6elxtU69Ems7LTxDMSc3yHxk[/quote][/b]

+1.  FWIW I am there and think the University is doing all it can.  I saw this today and was going to post but you beat me to it.  PP should tell their kid that we have no idea who is to "blame" for anything at this point. We still don't know if there was even a motive or if this was caused by mental illness or something else.  There were early stories of the shooter being involved in a harassment incident - that story seems to have disappeared.  There are a lot of stories flying around but we really don't know the lay of the land yet.  James Ryan has asked for an independent special counsel to investigate the University's role.  PP's child should seek the help cited above but not be so quick to blame the University.  It is just too soon to tell if it should or should not have done something.  It just is . . .  let's see what develops over the next few weeks before casting asperations.  And for the record, if I remember correctly, at VT it turned out that the shooter had mental health issues in high school which were not disclosed to VT by the student or parents so VT admitted the student not knowing of the problem.  [/quote]

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