On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:45:48 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:42:00 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:15:49 -0500, Keyser Soze

While we are "hardening schools," we'll have to harden shopping centers,
churches, outdoor concert venues, parking lots, et cetera. The idea of
having a policeman or armed teaching guarding an entire school is
laughable. Most schools are pretty large, multi-floor buildings.

I tend to agree but in Florida there is usually only one unlocked door
from the outside, the one in the lobby. Either someone blocked another
door open or this guy came in with the other students, carrying a
rifle. Either are possible I suppose.
I do agree that we need to control the nuts. Eliminating soft targets
is pretty much impossible and eliminating potential weapons will just
be a whack a mole game, simply trying to prevent the last attack, not
the next one.

Or someone could have opened a side door for him at a pre-selected time.

That person should be charged with murder too if that is what
happened. There is video in these schools so we should know that by
now.
That is really the easiest way to "harden" the schools anyway. Just
increase the number of cameras and be able to isolate a shooter with
doors that can be closed and locked remotely. That along with
notification systems would do more than armed guards. If they can
monitor the shooter from a central location and send the video to the
cops along with exactly where the guy is, taking him will be a lot
easier. If the teachers know immediately to lock the classroom door
and get everyone behind the safe line (an area that can't be seen from
the hall), they can just hunker down and wait.