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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (203347)	4/19/2007 1:38:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

do you just possibly think that adult students with an urgent warning that a double homicide occured and the shooter was still on the loose would have the smarts to hustle back to their dorms or get off campus? I think people should be informed asap so they can do whatever they think is necessary. And foreknowledge would have decreased the possibility people would freeze when the second attacks started. OTOH, I don't think hustling back to dorms or to cars would necessarily make a difference. The shooter would likely go to where his targets are. you don't question the logic of holding classes as usual after such an event? Whether to cancel classes in respect of the dead is a decision for the local people to make. I'm not sure it would have made a difference in regards to the second set of shootings. The gunman wanted to kill people and would go to where they are to do it. If not a classroom building, then a dorm, student center, whatever. you don't think that that act alone create a false sense of security in the faculty and students? Not necessarily. what pisses me off is the attitude that because EVERYTHING couldn't have been done somehow justifies that little or nothing was done in a timely way I think its mistaken to think that bad things can be prevented if the authorities just make the right decisions. I don't think anything the school did (or could do) that morning would have made a difference.