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From: Brumar894/19/2007 8:22:25 AM
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I'm wondering what "locking down" means on a large campus the size of a small city.

Does it mean sending students home, canceling classes?

Does it mean keeping them in place at the first word of trouble?

If the latter, does it mean locking the doors to all the buildings?

I see problems with all the above. The gunman here chose classrooms and hallways as his place of attack. Keeping students there would just be freezing his targets in place.

Locking the doors to the outside would be good, unless he was already in the building. Then locking the doors would prevent victims from escaping. Plus it would hamper people fleeing a bomb threat.

Sending students home would create a crowd on the sidewalks and parking lots, making those places target rich environments for a shooter.

Flooding the campus with police sounds nice, but would there be enough police to cover a large campus thoroughly?

I'm not sure there is a solution here.
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