Law enforcement response issues aside, how hard would it be to fit these schools and school rooms with better secyrity systems? Doors with electronic locks, classrooms with one way steel doors that automatically lock from the inside, security cams and monitor systems over classroom doorways, security fencing around playgrounds, etc?
It would be expensive to refit all of these buildings and classrooms with real security doors, but we are already spending hundreds of millions to babysit a bunch of gangbangers with 60 level IQs for 12 years.
It would appear in this case that simply following procedures already in place would/could have prevented entry. At this point it appears the shooter entered the school through a door that should have been locked.
A quick Google shows about 140,000 elementary schools in the US, Sandy Hook was ten years ago. Considering to the number of schools in the US, the odds of actually having this occur at any given school are vanishingly low.
People get complacent.
Even here in the middle of poor-as-shìt nowhere, a lot of government offices have electronic locking doors on the building that you have to have a badge ID to open.
It astounds me that we can put electronic security doors on the government Office of Mattress Tag Checking, but security at an elementary school depends on Cross-Eyed Janitor Charlie remembering to lock the door in between smoke breaks.
