On Monday, April 16 Cho Seung-hui, a South Korean living legally in the United States killed 30 people at Virginia Tech University.

This shooting rampage is the worst school massacre in U.S. history and the effects are being felt nation wide.

Emotions ran high among Moorpark college students, the day after the horrific tragedy. “It makes you feel sick,” said Tim Mandin, 19, undeclared major. “I can’t even imagine what those people went through.”

Chaos ensued for over three hours before the school was locked down. “I thought the school was dumb for not locking down,” said Matt Handlos 19, criminology major. “You never think that it could happen to you until something like this happens.”

Moorpark College has emergency procedures but is still working on an emergency plan. In dealing with a situation like the one that happened at Virginia Tech, there is no one way, to plan out emergency procedures for a tough situation like this said Dr. Eva Conrad, Moorpark College President.

“Are you ever fully prepared? No. Anywhere there are humans there is potential for violence,” said Conrad. “It’s not the place that creates violence its people.”

Being prepared is essential in saving lives in an event like this.

Mike Johnson, a counselor at Moorpark College, had a more realistic approach to yesterday’s incident, but was still left in awe.

“I was shocked,” said Johnson. “I didn’t think that something of that scale could take place.”

Johnson was unaware of security measures taken by the administration at Virginia Tech. In his mind it was simple: some things cannot be prevented.

“No school is prepared for something like that,” he said. “The security at Moorpark College is fairly good. There’s just no way to be prepared for something like that.

In the event of a school emergency, Moorpark College Officers are trained how to deal with different scenarios although no concrete plan is in place.”

“There really isn’t any particular plan for the campus for a situation like this,” said Kegley

The Moorpark College Police Department is trained to use an active shooter response. A group of four or five officers will attempt to take down the suspect. The group consists of two officers with shotguns, 1 supervisor and a point man.

A plan for how students are to react is set up inside each classroom. The plan urges students to not investigate what is going and to “shelter-in-place.” In the event of a hostage situation it instructs us to turn off all lights and to close and lock all windows. Inside the building you should stay as low to the floor as possible and stay out of sight.

“You can always set up a plan,” said Lt. Kegley. “Not everything happens the way you see it in training.”

Compiled by: Eric Lee Contributors: Danielle McGill, Erik Grossman, Bryan Clark, Michael Caine, Hayley Jo Mcarthur, Chrystina D’agati, Whitney Grossman, David Koester, Josh Lee, and Miguel Morales.