• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    And they somehow can’t find the shooter. So if nobody’s a suspect, everybody’s a suspect.

    Like I’m just thinking about the lockdown procedure that most campuses have in place and wondering how somebody could just walk away after doing this from the roof of some building.

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      5 hours ago

      Like I’m just thinking about the lockdown procedure that most campuses have in place and wondering how somebody could just walk away after doing this from the roof of some building.

      University “lockdown” is quite different than elementary and HS lockdowns, as there’s not just one building. There are many buildings, and locking the entire campus down would mean, on a typical campus, locking down a small city. Its just not possible to do.

      Especially if one knows the infra rooms and halls. One local campus, they could lock it down, and I’d still be able to leave via the utility halls under the campus, leading to the public utility tunnels.

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        5 hours ago

        I was literally on a university campus. The entire campus was on lockdown even though the person with a gun was only seen by one person in the parking garage. They had individual security members doing rounds on different floors of each building and alerts sent via text and email telling people to shelter in place until further notice.

        It’s not that it guarantees nobody leaves, but it makes it so there are fewer people wandering around unidentified while they’re looking for a dangerous suspect or suspects.

        That’s why people were getting scolded for leaving the rooms where they were sheltering to even go to the bathroom while security was doing rounds.

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          4 hours ago

          The last uni campus I was on, when we had an active shooter, they locked down 2 buildings, and the area between them. No reason to lock down buildings clear on the other side of campus, keeping people in possible harms way.

          I guess different schools, different rules, but locking down 36,000 people on a 1000 acre campus seems… Hardly effective.

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            4 hours ago

            I feel like a sharp shooter on a roof always calls for some extreme safety precautions. Sending people scrambling out in the open to their cars seems like the worst idea.

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              3 hours ago

              I mean, it’s better than containing a bunch of soft targets in confined areas… like literally shooting fish in a barrel.

              I mean, it’s not like cops are going to come to save you, look at Uvalde if you think otherwise.

              Me? I’m getting the fuck OUT of a kill zone, not locking myself in one. The wider people spread, the better it is for all involved.

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      12 hours ago

      Cause they didn’t lock down the school, they evacuated everyone.

      AP news has videos of hundreds of students being ushered out of a building after the shot was fired.