Cho Seung-Hui allegedly massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech on Apr. 16, 2007. Image - Wikipedia.com

Unfortunately, there will always be tragedy. But the silver lining is that there will always be lessons learned. But that is no excuse to smother in blame campus administrators, police or anyone and everyone tangentially connected to Cho who “should have seen this coming.”

There can be no scapegoats for massacre. It is morally impermissible. It is grossly unfair to lay the blame for Monday’s tragedy at the feet of anyone but the shooter.

Nevertheless, some are screaming for heads to roll. The Virginia Tech community and others would be wise to hesitate before rushing to judgment on those whom “could have done more sooner.”

There is no reason to shut down or otherwise panic a small community, like a college campus, for what appears at first to be an isolated crime. There is no reason to expel a student simply because he wrote a disturbing piece of creative writing. There is no reason to blame the abundance, or lack, of firearms in communities for the actions of a crazed individual. We could go on.

Unfortunately, there will always be tragedy. But the silver lining is that there will always be lessons learned. But future lessons learned aren’t necessarily discovered past failures. Some things you simply can’t plan for.

It bears repeating that hindsight is 20/20; that stones are best not thrown from glass houses; that there is one and only one person to blame for the horrific scenes witnessed at Virginia Tech on Monday, and police have identified him as Cho Seung-Hui.