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The desk. my kids will say that's where they were written on the silk tablets. today the drill is what? simply to go out of the school? how do you prepare little kids without scaring them? >> for an active shooter you don't want the kids running out of school. they can run into the active shooter. you want to be able to lock down the classroom. if you can lock down the classroom, get the children down on the floor, take their desks lay them over get behind the desks lock the door so the shooter doesn't gain access to that. the first two or three minutes of an active shooter incident is the dea...

Was a place to be long. >> did he need that? >> yes, he definitely needed that desperately. >> why do you say that? >> well, it goes back to saying that he was withdrawn most of the time, he was very quiet. in his freshman year he was very small in size and he had a lot of fear coming into the high school and interacting with other students. >> but did he have a reason to be fearful of the other students? was he picked on? >> not really, no. no. not really. newtown system itself is a very, very loving caring school. the administrators, the teachers, most of the students usually adopt kids youn...

Stop this crazed individual. he is evil. he did the devil's work. what can we do in schools to protect our children? >> they did have some plan in the school. we could probably tweak that, though. >> how? >> apparently the shooter got in through the glass door. what happens is he shot the glass door out and went inside. the class itself wasn't -- was very easily penetrated. he was able to access the school. so there's a couple different things we can do. >> what? >> something simple like put the bars on the doors. >> people say, harry that that's intimidating. you don't want metal detectors yo...

>> describe a lock down. >> you do with your emergency action plan. it is basically locking down the school which they tried to do. they locked all of the doors. >> but the shooter is in the school. right, exactly. the shooter got into the school. if they had some kind of bars on that door maybe the shooter could not have gotten to the school. >> so let's accouple that there is this as you call safety or emergency action plan. that means that we have to train the teachers and efshl else. is this expensive? who pays for it in a world where the end of the fiscal cliff, how difficult is it? >> we...

Advisor of that club. he was part of that club. it was a large club we had in school. >> and what did people do in the tech club? >> video productions of every kind, basketball games, football games, sports, graduations, events in town, bit of radio station as well. >> so the kids in this club -- >> i am sorry, richard. >> that's okay. >> these kids didn't tin the clb were tech -- techy kids. >> how would you describe adam in particular? >> high-tech -- high intellectual techy who loved to be involved in the video productions, loved to be involved in all of the aspects that entailed camera wor...