URGENT! MAN WITH LONG GUN ON IUPUI CAMPUS DOWNTOWN

[eldirector]

So...my younger brother and three friends work and go to school there. Sorry to **** all over your thoughts on the 2nd amendment with my worries about crazy aholes shooting up colleges. You're right, it's no problem, people just walk around schools with long guns. My brother and my buddy who informed me are both armed right now because of morons who want to copycat.

So, your worries trump my rights? Good to know.

Glad your brother and buddy are carrying, just in case.

I'm wondering, how exactly do you "lock down" a bunch of adults on a university campus? Threaten them with guns? That would be...ironic.

 

[hoosierdoc]

How does the fire Marshall allow people to be locked in a room with no exit?

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

News just picked it up: IUPUI campus on lockdown - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Doesn't it seem like we have an IUPUI issue with guns about every week if not multiple times per week? Guess that gun-free safe zone policy's really working out well.

 

[Vic_Mackey]

How does the fire Marshall allow people to be locked in a room with no exit?

I don't think they can. Disorderly conduct?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

WIBC reporting now.

I'm just mocking the IUEMC twitter account

 

[Vic_Mackey]

Impd is staging for something right now if I'm hearing correctly.

 

[Bill of Rights]

How does the fire Marshall allow people to be locked in a room with no exit?

My thought exactly, Doc. First place I'd be headed would be a door. Locked? OK. Fire door won't be. Sets off an alarm? Not my concern. I'm an adult and I won't be locked in somewhere to await someone else's choice to let me loose when I've done nothing wrong. Stay and play sitting duck if you want, I'm outta here.

I'm not worried that someone else has a long gun. I'm worried if I'm not allowed to have something with which to defend against it.

To the OPs, thanks for posting this up. Keep us in the loop, please!

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Westside]

My thought exactly, Doc. First place I'd be headed would be a door. Locked? OK. Fire door won't be. Sets off an alarm? Not my concern. I'm an adult and I won't be locked in somewhere to await someone else's choice to let me loose when I've done nothing wrong. Stay and play sitting duck if you want, I'm outta here.

I'm not worried that someone else has a long gun. I'm worried if I'm not allowed to have something with which to defend against it.

To the OPs, thanks for posting this up. Keep us in the loop, please!

Blessings,
Bill

 

[searpinski]

I'm an adult and I won't be locked in somewhere to await someone else's choice to let me loose when I've done nothing wrong. Stay and play sitting duck if you want, I'm outta here.

Exactly this. I can't believe they locked people in there.

 

[scottka]

Luckily, I'm not on campus right now, but I have a few friends who are. None of them seem overly worried, but they all said their buildings were on "lockdown." They all seemed okay with sitting and waiting. I wouldn't feel comfortable sitting there with no defense, but I wouldn't feel great walking around while a supposed long gun has been spotted. I'm guessing it was a false sighting...

Listening to the scanner now.

 

[Vic_Mackey]

My thought exactly, Doc. First place I'd be headed would be a door. Locked? OK. Fire door won't be. Sets off an alarm? Not my concern. I'm an adult and I won't be locked in somewhere to await someone else's choice to let me loose when I've done nothing wrong. Stay and play sitting duck if you want, I'm outta here.

I'm not worried that someone else has a long gun. I'm worried if I'm not allowed to have something with which to defend against it.

To the OPs, thanks for posting this up. Keep us in the loop, please!

Blessings,
Bill

My thoughts exactly lol I'd be heading to my vehicle for my own long gun. My buddy is with maintenance. He's gonna fill me in when he can.

 

[Westside]

Luckily, I'm not on campus right now, but I have a few friends who are. None of them seem overly worried, but they all said their buildings were on "lockdown." They all seemed okay with sitting and waiting. I wouldn't feel comfortable sitting there with no defense, but I wouldn't feel great walking around while a supposed long gun has been spotted. Guessing it was a false sighting... Listening to the scanner now.

NOT surprised at all.

But the school will be praised because they were so proactive.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Just wanted to add this, as the thread brings it to mind:

That is all.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Kirk Freeman]

My question: who called it in?

Was it a professor? Was this a political stunt?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

WIBC Breaking News update: Police still searching.

That is all.

 

[Amattern]

My question: who called it in?

Was it a professor? Was this a political stunt?

It was a female student who saw the suspect and reported it.

 

[Westside]

My question: who called it in?

Was it a professor? Was this a political stunt?

and if it was an intentional false report they should be prosecuted.

 

[Bill of Rights]

My question: who called it in?

Was it a professor? Was this a political stunt?

It would not surprise me at all if this was a "political stunt"

NOT surprised at all.

But the school will be praised because they were so proactive.

And that's why.

And yes, my cynicism is showing.

I do not want to see such reports turn into the boy who cried wolf, revisited.

 

[CLR]

I walked around and went to the library. The lockdown isn't too crazy. People are still outside

 

[hoosierdoc]

What a way to cause a problem: get an accomplice to lock the school down and be waiting in a big auditorium with your prey locked in. Scary thought.