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Virginia Tech shooting: How the university helped avoid another massacre

Virginia Tech鈥檚 response in alerting the university community is much more swift than it was in April 2007, the day a student opened fire on his peers, killing 32 and then himself. In 2007, the university did not send out an alert until two hours after the first shots were fired. On Thursday, the response time was only seven minutes.

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