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And in a sign of how tragically routine mass slayings in schools have become, few on campus disagreed.
"It is unlikely that anyone would ever have the ability to stop an incident like this from beginning," campus police chief Donald Grady said.
"It's an unfortunate set of circumstances that no one could possibly have predicted nor could they have been more responsive in getting the event to stop. Unfortunately these things happen."
NIU, like most campuses across the nation, revamped its security plans after 32 students and faculty were shot down by a mentally disturbed student at Virginia Tech University 10 months ago in the deadliest massacre ever at a US school.
Public address systems and emergency sirens set up across campus and security alerts sent out by e-mail and text message to cell phones warned students to lock themselves in a safe place and avoid the area around Cole Hall, where Stephen Kazmierczak walked in with a shotgun concealed in a guitar case and three handguns strapped to his belt.
Armed campus police trained as emergency medical technicians, who staff each residence hall 24 hours a day and roam regularly around campus, got to the building 29 seconds after the first frantic call came in and ran straight to the auditorium.
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