They were hardly laid back. They locked down the dorm, they were interviewing witnesses, they called other RAs and reported and had them knock doors and tell others in nearby dorms to stay put.
If the stories are to be believed, and it’s still speculation, it appears some people they interviewed told them of a vehicle and a person who fled the scene. They persued that lead, caught the vehicle and were talking to the person when the 2nd shooting started.
If you think the shooter is fleeing for the city, you call the city and have THEM lock down, not the campus the shooter is leaving.
And what is a “lock down”? Isn’t it put the kids inside the buildings under supervision? Isn’t that exactly where all the kids were when they were shot, locked inside classrooms with adult supervision?
What if they had actually locked the dorms and forced people to stay inside? Then the gunman would have been in Harper dorm, again with no police presense and nobody with a gun to protect themselves. He could have gone down the hall, shooting the locks off doors and stepping into each room to kill the occupants. With everybody locked in their dorm rooms, nobody would have been able to defend themselves, and if the guy chain-locked the doors, the police would have trouble getting in just like at the classroom.
Of course, he might not have killed quite so many. But if your child was killed by a gunman IN HIS DORM after being forced to stay in the dorm with the gunman, I would imagine you’d be pretty mad about it.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Let's play a quick game of Liability Insurance Lottery. Step right up all you wronged victims, imagined and real. Those with tangible and intangible injuries. Have ID ready so we know who to make the check out to.
there’s shooting on the campus—so go to your class cautiously... two people have been killed in a dorm today... we don’t have the murderer... let’s send out some emails two hours later to warn everybody... why let students even come onto campus after the first shootings? i know—it’s huge campus... however, they were able to shut the huge campus down after round two... to me, seems like a non-chalant approach... to you it doesn’t... we just disagree...