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It wasn’t just a couple of minutes. The State Police spokesman said the murderer fired shots outside for TWELVE MINUTES. Surely someone could lock the doors in that much time.

Whose job was it to lock the exterior doors?
Why didn’t they do it? Were they hiding somewhere?
If there was no clarity on that, why? Who failed to have that extremely simple security procedure in place?
Where was the regular security officer? Was he on approved leave or just AWOL?
Seems like massive incompetence made this disaster so much worse than it might have been. That said, the murderer gets 100% of the blame.

Whose job was it to lock the exterior doors?

At the school I work at, all but one set of doors are routinely locked. This is since the Sandy Hook attack. The entrances to the school (it has two buildings) have an unlocked outer door and a vestibule with a locked inner door. You have to be buzzed in, to get in. I don’t know whose job it would be to lock the one door that usually isn’t locked. I assume it would be the sheriff’s deputy/resource officer assigned to the school.

Upon notification by the P.A., teachers immediately lock classroom doors. I would have to assume that since there was a gun battle at the front entrance to the school lasting several minutes, someone at the front office should have passed the word. We have heard nothing about what happened inside the school other than the fact that the murderer got into a pair of classrooms and started killing.

At some point we’ll hear from others who were there, if they are allowed to speak. I have no doubt the school has told the other teachers to shut up or risk being fired, but sooner or later someone will talk.

I agree, that a couple of locked doors would have made this much less deadly. I have speculated, and someone claimed it confirmed, that the two teachers who died were showing their class a movie, which might have meant they didn’t hear the gunfire, but the question has to be, was the school warned by the office over the school’s P.A. about the danger?

That is a huge red flag to me. I read recently that this particular school district, maybe not this school in particular has had something like 40 either hard or soft lockdowns, whatever they wanna call it because of border patrol chasing suspects nearby. It wasn’t a foreign concept to them but they never put into practice but something used multiple times and even with the guy who had shot his grandmother, crashed his car outside of school for a good 10 minutes no action was taken. There is a massive failure in communication and if proper action had taken, from locking down the school to officers engaging the crazy guy with a rifle outside the school and shooting him it is likely this tragedy would have been prevented completely .