> It makes some sense to prevent parents from getting in. I'd expect some parents to be armed, and armed parents roaming around looking for the shooter and find

> It makes some sense to prevent parents from getting in. I'd expect some parents to be armed, and armed parents roaming around looking for the shooter and finding other armed parents is not a healthy situation. So you leave 1-2 officers outside. Why do we have videos of many more than that milling around? Also the police were on the scene when it started, they should have been able to go after the gunman before parents started to show up. > But if I'm a police officer outside the school, and I don't go in now, and a bunch of kids get killed, I'm going to have to live with myself for the rest of my life, knowing that I was there and didn't go in. While you enjoy your paid-suspension until you eventually get shuffled back into the deck without any real repercussions until you retire on your tax-payer-funded retirement.