Sheriff Jones — April 17, 2007, 2:31 pm
Virginia Tech
With the events that unfolded on 4/16/2007 everyone seems to be criticizing the University Security and the Police. To me that is arm chair quarterbacking; criticizing from the comforts of an easy chair. In the heat of battle you don’t have the luxury of knowing all the details of a situation. Give it time. In the weeks that follow there will be many reviews and we will be able to see what took place. Crisis Management is essential in all tragic situations such as this. We learn it again, and again, and again.
Our prayers go out to all those involved.
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I agree completely. It is easy to see what “could have been done differently” after all of the information is brought to light But, in that kind of situation, you just dont know what will happen next. I am praying for everyone involved. God bless the victims and their families and the officers and security that responded.
As the father of a Virginia Tech student who lives in the Ambler-Johnston Dormitory where the first shootings took place I wholeheartedly agree with Sheriff Jones comments concerning the incident. If any of the faculty or students had been armed, this may have been much less catastrophic.
You are so right! The folks who find fault most usually have the least idea what they’re talking about!
It was with great surprise and relief that I received the news that you had written to the governor to propose a sane response to student safety!
We have “No Child Left Behind”; it’s high time for “No Child Victimized by Naive Idealism”.
Sheriff Jones, met you today at the OFRW meeting and just had to post my rant about the VT shootings.
Let’s make sure our public school kids are never made to feel bad, are never graded, just given candy,………….. let’s insure when they do hit the reality of the real world they are absolutely and completely unprepared for it. Let’s never give them a chance, when they are little, and physically ineffectual, to learn about proper and appropriate responses to the reality of life’s challenges, hurts and disappointments, etc. Let’s make sure they are gun toting, poison giving, hazing administers, dynamite or ax wielders — so when their responses are totally and completely improper and inappropriate, they will be guaranteed to be lethal to those around them!
Meanwhile, let’s also teach our kids to be subservient and abhor sticking up for themselves, so when a gun toting fellow student enters a room of 20 people, not a one does so much as throws a book at the perp. Let’s never teach them how to cope with the monsters we have created through our neglect to teach “living in society 101″!
Dear Sir,
Thank you for voicing the opinion of quite few of us. Keep bringing up your proposal about having armed individuals at schools until our government has no choice but to listen. It is good to hear that there are still a few good men out there!
Sheriff Jones, I wanted to comment on your article on the Officer.com website about arming all personnel in all public and private Ohio Schools. I am on the Fraternal Order of Police Executive Board in Columbus, Ohio and we couldn’t agree with you more. We currently represent the 16 police officers at Columbus State Community College and the President of the College (Val Moeller) refuses to arm these state certified police officers. We support your letter to the Governor and Rep. Combs. If there is anything you could do to help us arm these police officers at an urban college in downtown Columbus, Ohio with 23,000 students present, we would really appreciate it.
Please be safe, Fraternally, Dave Hughes, FOP#9 recording secretary.
I fully understand and agree that immigrants should come to this country legally! However, your signs outside the jail that MY tax dollars help pay for are an embarrassment and come across as grossly prejudicial!!! Where are the signs that say “WHITE TRASH HERE”?
As for youre letter to President Calderon, you honestly can’t expect him to reply, or at least not with a check! Why not send one to the governor of Kentucky since KY has long been a huge source of marijuana? Or the governor of Hawiia? Why don’t we include the presidents of all the central american countries where cocaine is produced? Don’t you have something better to do on my tax dime than write letters that will not be taken seriously or is it just about SELF-PROMOTION????
Mr. Meadows,
I’m glad to see that you feel the need to express your opinions of illegal immigration and your precious tax dollars on a Virginia Tech related blog. Instead of expressing your views on how you feel we can make schools safer, you attack the sheriff. It’s nice to know where your morals stand. Screw the students, let’s worry about YOUR tax dollars.
In regards to making schools safer, when I was in school, we had a police officer there everyday. Unfortunately, despite the officer doing his/her job, guns and knives were still found in the school, and many bomb threats were called in. One person cannot possibly watch 1,000 or more students. While I absolutely do not think that teachers should be able to carry arms, I do believe that we should install more surveilance in these schools. We have to protect these kids from occurances like these!
Mr Meadows,
You are a pathetic!!! This blog is about the human life lost at Viginia Tech and what we can do to protect our children in the future. Please go back to law school and take the class on HUMAN DECENCY 101 that you obviously missed. Your “tax dollars” mean nothing to me or anyone else who is responding to this blog. Please use your education by writing your comment on illegals on the correct blog. Thanks
In ref to other’s opinions on Virginia Tech, I want to see your plan implemented Sheriff. It is a sad world we live in when we have to even discuss this issue but I want my children to be safe. With the way things are going we should also be talking openly with our children on what to do if this were to happen, GOD FORBID, in their schools. Thanks Sheriff for standing up for our children!!
TO ABC & aeb: Sorry to offend your precious sheriff (not really) and to aeb, my education is in law and not in computer science - if the website “comment” button were next to the article to comment on and NOT seperated by a line, it would be much more clear which artical one were responding to. As for ABC’s response about camera’s, I’m in FULL agreement that camera’s in police cruisers is a GREAT idea and should be implemented immediately. Rather than having BIG BROTHER watching us, shouldn’t we able to watch the government?
As for the VA TECH incident - it was a true tragedy! Camera’s wouldn’t have stopped it, just like suspending a drivers license doesn’t stop a drunk from getting into a car. That would all be “feel good” legislation!
Finally, cudos to those who have the intestinal fortitude to be proud of who they are and their comments but putting their full name! I will continue to openly criticize our government because without it we will live in a system of tyranny!
Sheriff, I just wanted to thank you for bringing the safety of our children to the forefront. If anyone can devise a plan and have it implimented, I feel confident you will do it. I have no ties to the Tech shootings, but as a mother I can only imagine what the families of all those involved are going through.
-As for Mr. Meadows, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out how the website works. I’m assuming you think the rest of us will forgive your mistake on this sensitive issue because you’re an attorney. I, for one, don’t and can only imagine your business is thriving due to your GREAT attention to detail. In response to some having the “intestinal fortitude” to use their real names. Not everyone here is using this as a forum to advertise. If you’re desperate for clients, try taking out an ad in the yellow pages.
i completely agree with MEADOWS! This Sheriff Jones guy is a disgrace to the entire human race! he treats the illegals like savages and animals. says to protect his county, and what not, well then try and protect the men in YOUR jail from committing suicide to your stupid talks, lectures, and saying on how you will get all of the illegal immigrants, sorry you ignorant pig, you wont!!! you think that you’re better than all of the men locked up in there?? SO WRONG! you are worse than they are, trying to promote yourself and sound like such a righteous tough guy?? you’re a loser who can’t find anything else to do with his time, so you go around trying to destroy a hard working human beings life, even though he/she might be illegal, he/she will be more better of a person than you ever will! Oh and the whole yellow sign thing, that was the stupidiest thing any officer could have done. Your a cowardly pig, who deserves to be in a smaller, worse, piece of **** cell than the men in that jail do!
Thank you : )
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Wow! Mr Jones, I am interested to see your plan implemented for the safety of our schools. I think it is about time that we start being proactive in our schools against this violence. This violence is not going to stop anytime soon so we need to do what is necessary to protect our children. Thanks Sheriff for always being one step ahead of the rest of the country.
Mr Meadows,
Aren’t you a DUI attorney? I am curious to see how many of your cases are illegals. I am sure that many of them are if not most of them. Is that why you are so afraid of illegals being sent back to their country? Wouldn’t you lose your meal ticket? If anyone is a disgrace to society it is slimy defense attorneys like yourself. You are on this blog for your own personal advertising like Smiley so cleverly put it. If you are so upset about the signs that the Sheriff has placed, then make one of your own. “Did you get drunk and drive a car and put society at risk? Call me I will get you out of it, and if you dont speak english, I will fight for your right to do it again because you have rights too!” could be your slogan.
Dear Sheriff Jones
I want to thank you for taking a stand in these important times. I admire your courage and your will. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the cost illegal immigration. The federal government has tied the states hands in deportation, but want us to pay for their incarceration. Keep up the fight and keep billing the governments of Mexico and the U.S. I agree with legal immigration, but illegals have committed a felony by entering America and often continue their criminal activity. Do I get a free felony, I think not. I live in Texas and I see first hand the problems. I hope the voters of Butler County keep you in office and hold their state legislators accountable. Thank you for your efforts.
I just saw Sheriff Jones on FoxNews. I wish to God that all law enforcement agencies and states would listen to Sheriff Jones. Our lawmakers refuse to listen to the American People. Instead that put illegal aliens before the security and safety of all Americans.
The American People are sick and tired of the Federal Government refusing to enforce the immigration laws on the books. They prefer to pander to big business, special interest and lobbyist. The hard working law abiding citizens of this country are not even represented in the debates on the immigration bill. I refer to the bill as the “Great American Give Away.” It is a sad day when our Federal Government puts the demands of illegal aliens before our laws and our people. We are the ones that are left to suffer the consequences.
I thought that we were a Nation of Laws. I thought that our elected officials took an oath to uphold our laws. I must be in he wrong country because we no longer have a voice and our laws are not enforced nor are they respected.
Stay strong Sheriff Jones I wish that you were running the country. If you were we might still be the USA.
Thank you,
Donna Jones
SC