Just a little thinking out loud on my weekly recycling center run this am.
Not only did it take the failure of two locks to make this tragedy happen, but the shooter just happened to encounter those particular doors right away.
IIRC (and i'm not going back to watch the video to confirm) not only did he approach the school from the direction of the unlocked exterior door, but once he was inside, he went directly to rooms 111 and 112, and this required him to take a turn in the hallway. He did not try to access, or even shoot into, any of the other rooms which were closer to him. He didn't just walk down the hall trying door after door.
Maybe just too much coffee this am (which is true), but damn that's a set of strange coincidences. Was he just that lucky?
Are malfunctioning door locks a lot more common than we are led to believe?
I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous. We’re not talking about making entry on a dope search warrant. There is absolutely no way, in this BORTAC scenario, which is not a barricade but more similar to a hostage/doomed hostage scenario, that anyone who remotely knows what they’re doing attempts a mechanical breach with the intention of backing off if it fails and “taking the time” to prepare an explosive breach.
Nvm. Oops
Last edited by camel; 07-16-2022 at 01:46 PM.
Absolutely.
As this thread might challenge the assertion: Have been several sides of the Maintenance Department work order system in facilities from schools, government buildings (police, EMS, nursing homes), factories, offices, hotels, timeshares, resorts, ski resorts, and retail. Exactly zero took maintenance seriously as a whole. The closest to ideal professionalism was lift maintenance because a literal line of wealthy guests plummeting to their doom is not a profitable business model. Even then, talk to the guys who install or later maintain those lines and you'll not be so quick to blindly board one ever again.
The exterior door being unlocked doesn't surprise me at all. Most commercial doors that I have seen are like either the top left or lower right here.
https://www.theamsecurity.com/commer...ecurity-doors/
They are heavy, and they have that giant closer mechanism at the top. The weight and the mechanism combine to make the door pretty slow moving even if you try to help it. In my experience if you go through it, and then just let it close on it's own, chances are pretty good that it won't latch. As SCCY Marshal says, they get little to no maintenance. The latch mechanism probably hasn't had any oil since the building was built. So the dried out latch needs more and more force for it to work. Wasn't someone walking in through that door just before the shooter showed up?