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That's how long it takes to evacuate a campus. In two hours you'd be lucky if everyone even knew they had to leave, not to mention the fact of mass panic and hysteria and the fact that thousands of people had nowhere to go. What if the gunman had been hanging out in a dorm and began shooting people after they returned to the dorm? Yeah, that's right, we'd be second guessing the police for not keeping everyone safe and sound in their classrooms. We want to be safe, and for some people that requires envisioning a better response that would have made people safer, but for the most part, it's a fantasy indulging the worst kind of wishful thinking, that someone could have controlled the outcome of this awful incident.
