Answer: Fewer people. Are you that unfamiliar with the English language?
I realize you’re never going to think guns are part of the problem. I ask the questions rhetorically.
Guns have nothing to do with shootings.
Cars have nothing to do with car accidents.
Cigarettes have nothing to do with the secondary effects of smoking.
Now, you tell me what was going to happen after the FBI told the school about the school “maybe, one day, possibly, this dude is gonna show up with a gun”. I’ve asked you once already.
I'm quite familiar with the language just not your bizarre way of using it. As far as I can tell, based on that last paragraph, nearly everything you type should be considered "rhetorical"...
I hesitate to bother to answer your question above since I'm certain you'll infer that it was simply "rhetorical" but based on what gibberish I've read from you so far you may actually not understand what the school administrators should have done with the information so here's the basics of what most normal folk would do:
They'd alert their entire staff that they had just received a warning from the "FBI" (until recently those initials carried a great deal of weight),
They'd institute a controlled access of school grounds, with a maximum of two ways in and out (preferably one) with armed security at each access point.
They should have immediately hired enough security (off duty police officers is the fastest way to come up with trainined personnel) to have armed security at the egress and access pints, a roving patrol on each floor of the school and a couple more on the grounds if practical.
They would have, or at least should have, alerted their board to have an emergency meeting and have them vote to implement a training and certification program whereas several of their teachers are allowed to concealed carry personal firearms after undergoing rigorous training and background checks (this should have been done all over the country right after the first major school shooting).
This would have taken more time but at least this type of program would have begun and depending on the warning date perhaps a couple of teachers would have had a fighting chance to stop the jerk or at least slow him down by presenting a real threat to him (I'm thinking the football coach who is presented in articles as having once been part of their security staff would be a prime example of who should have had a concealed carry weapon already on their person..)
That's just for starters..., after you receive a warning from the FBI that this guy is considered a "threat to life" in their vernacular...
There are several other things they could have and probably will do "after the fact" to create a harder target and upgrade their security stance...
24/7 camera monitors and an immediate shelter in place warning system comes to mind. Buying police grade Kevlar blankets and shields is another... Adding a couple of simple hardened slide locks at different heights on the interior of the classroom doors is another (so it's harder to gain entrance by simply blowing out the lock set). Having staff "hall monitors" giving a safe to egress signal before sending an entire class out into the hallway...
Now I'm certain you're going to wail and nash your teeth about introducing more firearms into the school environment (with the teacher concealed carry program) but that's one of the only real life short answer on how to confront this type of threat.
Many of the security upgrades you would want to make certain that your students and the surrounding general public were aware of. Often times the simple presentation of a hardened target deters this type of creep.
Firearms are not going away. We can rally and demagogue, and legislate all we want but the simple reality is that a kid (or anyone) can kill you just as dead with a shotgun made in the late 1800's, as with a mil-tec looking semi-auto produced last month. It wouldn't be as efficient but if the individual had done any training with his weapon at all it would still be quite deadly (especially the way that guy staged his ambush: fire alarm = crowded hallways).
As an aside: semi-autos aren't capable of spewing "thousands of rounds" even with a bump stock and anyone who tells you they can quite frankly doesn't know what they're talking about. Even select fire (fully automatic) M-4s aren't capable of that rate of fire over a 90 second time frame.
Without elaborating, we are quite fortunate that the nut case in question wasn't very creative in setting up his ambush or the death toll in a crowded hallway would have been much higher indeed by simply utilizing, legal, over the counter items...(and no I won't explain that, just think homemade fireworks on steroids).
It's a dangerous world we now live in. I don't like it anymore than you do. I just think we should take concrete steps to confront the reality of the threat rather than simply whining about it or attempting to use these tragedies for political leverage.
An official "FBI warning" in this case should have and most likely would have, rapidly kick-started a security upgrade at the school in question and in most cases would have...
