I’m listening to Greta now, and she said something actually smart. She noted that if Va Tech had horns which went off when there were threats, those alarms would have sounded 3 times last week for the 3 bomb threats, so this morning even if the alarm went off at 7:30, by 10 people would have been ignoring it.
I would add would they sound the alarm for 2 straight hours? How long would you continue a lockdown if you had started one at 8am? What if you didn’t find a gunman by noon, 1pm, 3pm? It’s likely they would NOT have found this gunman, so wouldn’t he have shot up the school as soon as the lockdown ended?
That is, if the plan wasn’t to get into a building during a lockdown (remember, the lockdown procedure doesn’t include putting hundred of police searching people going into every building), and then shooting up the people locked down in the building with the chains keeping the police out.
Seems like a siren early with the first shooting would prevent any classes from even starting. They did not have the shooter, thought he left the area. First classes not till 8am. Also if sirens go off and you are on your way to class you turn around. Could hear it from your car, parking lots etc. I don’t agree with Greta that after several you would ignore it. Tornado sirens have gone off twice here in less than a week and we didn’t ignore it. At least you could tell parents you tried.