So yesterday?
Some sort of humans vs zombies nerf gun battle week at URI led to someone to think that someone else had an actual gun on campus. That folks there acted on the side of caution with evacuations, lock-downs, cancelling classes, etc., is understandable.
Less understandable was that nearly 20 miles away, the secondary school campus I am at went into lock-down as well, replete with cryptic emails from central administration that did nothing but freak everyone out. Spent the first ten minutes of the last class of the day, in lock down, going way off topic and talking the students down from all the anxiety the situation caused.
Can only imagine what this would have been like if only the NRA's "armed volunteers" could have been there too, patrolling the hallways to do that voodoo that they do...