VA Tech

I simply cannot believe what happened at VA Tech yesterday. I just can't believe it. I don't understand how this could have possibly taken place! I do not understand how someone could have been shot in a dorm two hours prior to the massacre, and yet no one seemed to know about the first shooting. Why was campus not locked down? Why were students allowed to leave their rooms? The absolute minute police learned that a student had been killed by an unknown assailant, campus should have been shut down completely. If someone is murdered in a dormitory, and you can't find the guy that did it, i would THINK that MAYBE they'd act a little FASTER than an EMAIL.
Unfortunately, that is not the way events played out, and 30+ people ended up dead. How does something like this happen!? And a better question, how does someone DO THAT!? What could have possibly been going through this young man's mind when he open fired on a fucking classroom? And why did he turn the gun on himself? Was it a planned murder-suicide deal, did he not want to face the repercussions of his actions? Or did he go through some blind rage, only to come out of it and realize he'd taken dozens of lives, and ended his own in a fatal attempt of apology?
How is it, that after all the rules and regulations and claims of 'gun control', that a student can get ahold of 2 9mm handguns and just...SHOOT EVERYONE!?
I heard about this when i got home from work yesterday around noon. They knew nothing! All the newscasters could tell us is that at least 20 people had been shot and killed at VA Tech. The number kept rising. All they knew was people were shot to death. I never, EVER want to be in a situation like that, where i've got no fucking idea what is happening, and all i know is people are dying. I cannot even begin to fathom how terrifying that had to be for students on that campus. To hear gunshots and have to climb under your desk, wondering if you should be reflecting back on your young life, and probably are even if you don't mean to. The eternal optimist would be doing the exact same thing; i would be doing the exact same thing. Wondering why this was happening and why NO ONE WAS STOPPING IT.
It's absolutely horrifying, and i'm wrecked just thinking about it.