# Police response during mass shooting event {Not Gun Control, 2nd Amendment or Politics}

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-response-during-mass-shooting-event-not-gun-control-2nd-amendment-or-politics/965165 "2022-05-26T18:28:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-response-during-mass-shooting-event-not-gun-control-2nd-amendment-or-politics/965165/67 "2022-05-27T14:59:00Z")

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I read someplace, perhaps another topic, that the delay was partly because the police were waiting for the principal to provide a key for the locked classroom door. That seems ridiculous. Wouldn’t there be a master key in the Knox box outside the main entrance?

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