It's good to hear that family and friends of Mace and LancerVT are fine. As a Virginia Tech alumni, I hate to think the school will be noted for this and not as one of the finest engineering schools in the country.
I hope cooler heads prevail in this thread, and we don't lower ourselves to be like the media and talking heads who earn their living exploiting tragedies for profit or an agenda. In a world of 6.5 billion people and growing, we can only have a growing number of loose cannons