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Reply 24 of 127 (Originally posted on: 04-17-07 11:40:26 AM)
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While we're playing what ifs on the school's response, would we have been able to stop the shooter had he targeted Norris first? People in fark threads were pointing out recent incidents where isolated campus shootings had not resulted in school lockdowns. Of course, there was no outrage in those incidents, because they did not turn into massacres.
This could have easily happened on any campus in the country. Hindsight and armchair quarterbacking is easy, but isn't a good way to judge split second decisions made with no foreknowledge of what was to come.
Nevertheless, I'm sure lockdown policies will change, even if a dorm shooting never turns into a massacre again. The next person, obviously aware of policy changes, will simply start his massacre right away rather than preceding it by hours with a targeted killing.
Quoted from Zippo: From what I've read, VT has a lot of commuter students, and if thousands of students showed up on Monday morning to attend classes only to find out that they were canceled, you'd have a lot of students crowding around outside. Not exactly a better situation.
No, that would have been much better, actually. Without the killer locking the building and people being trapped in classrooms with only one entrance/exit, there would not have been as many victims.
Quoted from Zippo: However, if they had some type of "lockdown alarm," (like a siren of sorts) which would signal to students and faculty to get inside and lock the doors due to some danger, that might have helped a lot.
Only if it locked all the classroom doors from the outside. By the time people knew what was happening, the killer had already chained the building doors shut from the inside.
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