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- Dreamer42[/quote]
Doesn't matter how many teachers you have in a hall with keys, fire code will not allow you to lock an exit so that a key is required to get out of the building. Those Fire Marshal guidelines for exits are not that old. I guarantee you have a much greater chance of that locked exit resulting in injury to a child than you do of having an active shooter on your campus.[/quote]

How about requiring a key to get in the classroom but just turn a knob to get out? If the kids are locked in the classrooms, it seems to me it would be of no consequence if the shooter(s) were in the hallway.

I think the quotes got a little mixed up on this thread. I am being tagged with a quote from someone else’s post.

Tic Tac wrote:

AndyC wrote:

VoiceofReason wrote:Think like a member of an entry-team - is your job easier if there are hundreds of students running around chaotically or if the doors are all closed and corridors empty?

It's even easier, and safer for everyone, if the students can evac same as a fire.

I don’t know how I feel about it.

Andy have the schools updated with solid doors that can be locked from inside the school room?

Without that it seems to me they would just be providing bunches of captive targets for the shooter. On the other hand if they tried to evacuate, the halls would be so full, the shooter couldn’t miss.

Does anyone know if, during “lockdown”, someone is stationed at each door to allow only law enforcement in?

I don’t think I am going to be able to arrive at any sensible opinion on this.

"It's nice to see how well the system worked. It's a remarkable improvement from before. This could have been much, much worse," Hickenlooper said.

After the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings and the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, Colorado's Democrat-led legislature this year implemented gun control measures that limited the size of ammunition magazines and instituted universal background checks. Colorado also appropriated more than $20 million for mental health hotlines and local crisis centers.

The measures were intended to address violence associated with so-called assault rifles, not shotguns that are widely owned for hunting and sport.
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Hickenlooper acknowledged the latest shooting raised again questions about guns and violence. (my emphasis) But he noted that Pierson "didn't seem to exhibit any signs of mental illness," and he cautioned that the investigation was in its early stages.

Someone explain to me the reasoning behind the “lockdown”. Has anyone in authority thought this thing through? So you “lockdown” the school with the shooter inside and the shooter can’t get away. Neither can the students. It seems to me the only way this would do any good is if all interior doors were solid doors with no glass and able to stop a 30.06 FMJ.