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:	post by ArrowHead NLI at 2007-04-17 11:17:39

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I think it's disturbing that anyone is willing to just accept this and move on without looking into what could have been done better. If we look at what could have been done better...this will have a much smaller chance of happening again. If campus's take this horrible thing and use it to think about THEIR crisis plans...and improve on them, at least something came out of this.

But I'm a terrible person for thinking that.

I think that you're right that things could have happened faster, and there should have been a tighter emergency plan in place.

However, a college campus is a huge place, and even with the fastest communication in place the amount of time it would take to lock down and secure everyone there would have been hours. So they locked down the dorms? The kid with the guns heads to the classes. They locked down the classes? Try the cafeteria. The kid had murder in mind, and there's not too much that can stop someone like that in such a wide open place.

I think the more important question is: Why the fuck didn't anyone stop him? I can't for a moment imagine seeing someone systematically murder 30 people without feeling the need to at least TRY to subdue them.

Also, as far as I've seen on the news today, classes WERE in fact cancelled. Again, it takes time for word to spread for that sort of thing. I remember several times in high school that we would show up for class and sit there for a good 10-20 minutes before someone came by to let us know that an assembly had been called in the auditorium. Now that's for a school of 500 students. Multiply that by 26,000 students, and you can maybe understand why these kids and faculty were sitting there 2 hours after the first shooting.

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