Security ... think about it!
On August 1, 1966, a student named Charles Whitman climbed the bell tower at The University of Texas at Austin and began shooting students, faculty and staff. Whitman killed 14 people and wounded 32 others before he was shot and killed by officers from the Austin Police Department. This was the deadliest university shooting in history until the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, where 32 people were killed. The difference that day in Austin was the presence of armed civilians nearby that were able to respond when Charles Whitman began brutally killing anyone that he saw. Using their weapons, regular civilians began returning fire to Whitman's position. Using the suppressive fire from the civilians as cover and a distraction, three officers and a civilian armed with his personal firearm were able to enter the bell tower and kill Whitman before he killed any more innocent people.