Your comment, sir, is both insensitive and an obvious attempt at self-promotion on the back of a campus tragedy. You have no idea how this incident arose, you have no idea of the identity, status or origin of the shooter, you have, from what I can see, no background in mental health or law enforcement, and even if you did, you could not have enough facts on which to base what amounts to a very sick infomercial on websites.

People are hurting right now and you have the unmitigated gall to seek out a platform to criticize without facts and suggest that you have all the answers. That is as sick as it is dangerous.

Stop for one minute and think of those who have lost a loved one. Stop for one minute and think of the community that has suffered a loss. Stop for one minute and stop thinking about yourself and your bottom line. Putting your website up as if touting for clients is the height of bad manners and you should be ashamed of yourself.

I do not think Mr. Gentry or anyone at the Roanoke Times would like the last known picture of them ever published to be one of their dead body covered by a white sheet in a crime scene.

I understand and respect the rights of the press and the need to report on the news and facts of the incident, however this picture is very disrespectful to the fallen officer and his extended family in law enforcement.

Two dead, one is a VT police officer, the shooter is at large! This is their third killing at VT since 32 were killed and 25 were wounded in 2007. Where is the “prevention?”

Colleges continue to use Crisis Management (reacting to an existing crisis), Threat Assessment (reacting to an existing threat) or mental illness, which does not reliably tell us who the next shooter is! Simply put, current methods use on campuses do not reliably prevent a campus shootings, they merely react after the fact; this is not effective, responsible nor defensible.

A comprehensive study conducted by the Dept. of Education and the Secret Service called the “Safe School Initiative” declares; only when we measure emerging aggression can we actually foresee malicious intent to harm in a shooter’s body language, behavior and reliably prevent the next shooting.

Campuses have a responsibility to protect our children who are there to learn, “in-loco-parentis.”
If we are to PREVENT future campus shootings, we must foresee emerging malicious intent-driven aggression. What must we do to get colleges to stop reacting (Crisis Management) and start preventing these campus shootings?

John D. Byrnes, Founder and CEO
Center for Aggression Management
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Phone: 407-718-5637
Email: JohnByrnes@AggressionManagement.com