Others are asking whether the two perpetrators had help in planning or conducting their lethal assault. Months before they attacked with real guns and real ammunition, Harris and Klebold produced a school video in which students were shot at random in the hall. Harris' website named the day and the target he intended to strike. Those are all the wrong questions to ask, folks. There is no mystery why it took the cops two hours to act after the shooting had stopped.
Cops have less courage and freedom than an ordinary citizen.
Commanders have to wait for SWAT teams, and SWAT teams have to wait for the Bomb Squad . The Bomb Squad has to wait for the sniffer dogs, and sniffer dogs always wait for Channel 9 to set up their satellite truck, to transmit dramatic live publicity of the operation. If you study the Channel 9 video, you'll see a SWAT team kicking and shoving hundreds of terrified kids out of the high school, single-file, hands clasped over their heads like prisoners of war, approximately three hours after Harris and Klebold had killed themselves. The next time you want to suffer needlessly in heart-pounding terror for three hours, call the cops. They are good at guarding crime scenes and hanging yellow tape barriers.