Along with fire drills, schools have been conducting lockdown drills -- often known as active shooter drills -- since the Columbine massacre in 1999.
But safety officials do not agree yet on what teachers and students should do when a homicidal gunman invades their school.
At Sandy Hook Elementary School, teachers, staff and students had been drilled on how to handle such a situation.
"We practice it, and they knew what to do, and you just think about protecting the kids, and just doing the...
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