I also believe that the school's much vaunted lock down policies failed totally not because the shooter quickly killed the office staff, but due to bureaucratic bumbling and ineptitude. Reports that the shooter had to shoot through the glass front door to gain entry to the school should have given time to activate a lock down and more quickly summon police, but the 911 calls seemed to be coming from private cellphones elsewhere in the school. Could it be that only someone in "authority" like a school principal is allowed to call 911? Having some knowledge of the mindless bureaucracy in our nation's schools I would not find that hard to believe.
If that was indeed the narrative then where was it on the morning of December 15th in the NBC broadcast and Pete Williams and their reporting all day long. All that day all we heard was "4 handguns and 4 handguns only" and they proudly proclaimed it as coming from Federal officials and state officials.
That narrative continued until the state press conference later that day and the ME stated that all the wounds except for the shooter's came from the long weapon -- the rifle.
So that blows that theory out of the water that the narrative was to go after the AR-15. According to the media the AR-15 was innocent of all charges from the start and the handguns were the guilty parties until they had their lunch handed to them later that day by the ME press conference.
For those still confused in the hysteria of this feeding frenzy, it's the handguns that politicians fear the most not rifles or shotguns or AR-15s despite all the rhetoric.