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Could it be a stunt by a particularly intuitive student to prevent a shooting incident by creating a false alarm, to get everyone to tighten up security, thus reducing the probability of an actual shooter event really happening?

Shooters are probably smart enough to pick their targets, and they would be unwise to pick one that's on edge from a recent incident. </conspiracy theory>

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Or it could have been someone carrying a pipe which the witness mistook for a gun from a distance. I believe the last time there was a report of a gunfight on campus, the shooters turned out to have Nerf weapons...

I remember in 2004, when I was a freshman on campus we had Airsoft guns in the dorm and our cleaning lady actually picked them up for us and put them in a cup so we could reuse them for future dorm wide airsoft wars.

My how things have changed so many short years.

>>Could it be a stunt by a particularly intuitive student

If it is a stunt, 'intuitive' is the last way I would describe it.

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