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Jeez, I've heard so much about what the Tech administration should or did or didn't do...you'd think they, not the gunman, killed 33 people. Newsflash: putting a campus on lockdown typically requires sending the students to their dorms. Sending students back to dorms would have seemed more dangerous than keeping them in classrooms...after all, a dorm is where the first shooting took place. The first shooting was also at a time when people were arriving on campus and were moving between places. Contacting, let alone controlling, that number of people is no small task. Finally, most people would have figured that if a gunman was going on a shooting spree he'd have done it the first time.
Let's keep the focus on understanding how and why the shooter acted and keep the second guessing to a minimum, at least until more info comes in.
