Why is it when something so tragic and unexplainable happens we feel compelled to blame the innocent? I'm watching GMA this morning and I'm just astounded at the attacks on the president of Virginia Tech. Why didn't you lock the school down after the first shooting? Why didn't you let everyone know that this had happened? Are you going to resign? Don't you think if you had acted differently 30 people could have been spared?

This man is most likely in the midst of the biggest crisis he has ever faced, certainly in the professional realm. Doesn't he deserve support instead of suspicion? Clearly they believed that the dorm shooting was an isolated incident. They informed those in the general area of what had happened. They were investigating and believed that it was over. There was absolutely nothing to point to the rampage that was to occur. Why is it assumed that if they had immediately let everyone on campus know that anybody would have acted any differently? I guess they could have cancelled all classes, but who can say that the gunman wouldn't have just gone into another dorm or the student center or anywhere else that he found people?

I know if I was a parent of a slain student, I would be second-guessing everything that happened. I would be searching for someone to blame. Obviously the shooter is to blame, but he's dead, so there's no satisfaction there.

But shouldn't the media be more responsible than that? Hindsight is always 20/20, but it doesn't change what happened. It just sickens me that this university president may end up run out of his job to satisfy the hunger of the media monster. The power of the media to destroy lives is a huge problem in this country. Just ask the Duke lacrosse coach, who resigned in disgrace over a crime that never happened. Or the players, themselves, who just spent the past year living in fear of serving life sentences for something they didn't do. This is just one situation that shows how the media can get out of control when they smell blood in the water, but there are thousands more.

Please, take a breath. Blame the one who is responsible, the man who pulled the trigger. Not the gun. Not those who were struggling to contain a situation based on the information available. Not the NRA. Not George W. Bush. (Trust me, they will find a way.)

We live in a fallen world. There are messed up people living among us. Things like this will happen. We pray for the victims and their families. We pray for those who will be faced with a serious spiritual crisis in the face of death, that they will find the Truth. And mostly, we pray come quickly, Jesus. We need you so.