You’ve perhaps heard of the old saw “Proper planning prevents ‘pretty’ poor performance”.
Well, we bring you the corollary to that: ‘Pretty’ poor planning precedes ‘pretty’ poor performance.
Here is the “emergency lockdown plan” in place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on that fateful day in December 2012 when a social misfit lunatic showed up to launch a spree killing attack: In an emergency, the school custodian would come around and lock the individual classroom doors from the outside. There was no way to lock the doors from the inside.
That’s right.
A custodian would lock the classroom doors. One at a time from the outside.
From the story:
They also learned one of the mistakes at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20-year-old [scumbag’s name redacted] fatally shot 20 children and six adults during a rampage on Dec. 14, 2012.
Foley said in that incident, the school was not equipped with locks on the inside of classroom doors. The protocol was that the janitor would go around and lock the doors from the outside during a lockdown situation.
What happens when Mr. Smith, the unarmed janitor, gets shot by the social misfit attacking a school without armed teachers, staff, parents or other armed good guys?
The kids are sitting ducks for the social misfit, that’s what.
Until the good guys roll up and the bad guy decides to self-terminate rather than face an armed opponent.
Or until the good guys show up. park 100 yards away and count gun shots until they get enough guys there to storm the place. Will never understand how a human being could sit and listen to gun fire in a school and not do anything.