Lots of folks after LE and the schools heads for this one along with gun owners rights, understandably. I would argue lawyers are the problem. Turns out this guy was a nutcase, extremely disturbed, and school counslers and mental health officials knew it, but he is an adult and they feared taking any proactive action would invite the likes of the ACLU. As for school officials and LEO, I assume the school defers to LEO, who correctly saw the first incident as a domestic violence event. They took hours to carry out the initial assessment and track down of a "Suspect" (wrong guy) because they probably were watching every step, very very closely, for fear of a defense lawyer getting someone off on a technicality. The school failed to make a big deal of it, but then LE thought it was a domestic violence issue, if you were them you probably would too - it was - and unfortunately its common. Yet it is not likely that the suspect would return to campus to committ a mass murder. I would almost say the two events should be looked at as two seperate events. As for locking the school down, I live in a town of 26,000 people - the size of this campus, you couldn't shut my town down if there were a shooting. I am torn on this, I listened to radio coverage all day while on the road and feel like a wreck, ready to ball as I watch the pics of these kids tonite. I would say pass a gun control law tommorrow - if I thought it would do anything. This is a mental illness issue regarding the killer. It is a communication issue regarding LEO and the school, and all schools will now have a psycho alarm alongside the tornado alarm.