[Ramius]

I get that, but how do armed guards assigned to keep people with weapons out of the courthouse not manage to keep a man that has just killed three people inside the courthouse?

He used the stairs, down to what was likely a fire exit.

[DGray]

Ah, thanks, I had not heard that. Too much media out there to keep up with.

[CalRepublican]

That makes more sense.

This still just boggles my mind, though. I've been in criminal courthouses in LA, Hollywood, Ft. Worth, Dallas. . .there are usually a ton of cops.

Even in a civil courthouse, there are tons of bailiffs. I'm just thinking about the county courthouse in downtown LA. If you shot someone in a courtroom by the time you got halfway down the hall there'd be bailiffs pouring out of every courtroom.

What they need is in a situation like that for someone to be able to hit an emergency alarm that would seal the exits.