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Monday, April 16, 2007 12:00 AM

University officials waited two hours to warn campus, students say

With at least 33 dead and 29 wounded, some ask why the campus wasn't shut down after an early-morning killing.
By Joe Eaton

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  • Monday, April 16, 2007 03:27 PM

    What would a lockdown have accomplished?

    What would they have waited for before re-opening? For the perpetrator to be caught? And if he wasn't caught immediately (he could easily have hidden his two handguns), how long would the campus have stayed closed? A day? A week? Until the gunman's capture? Foreseeability is not as easy as hindsight, but in any situation, you have to proceed on the information you know. The headlines say it all: the single deadliest gun massacre on American soil ever. How are the police supposed to predict that?

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