Active shooter

school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights, or are victims struck at random, guilty of nothing more than of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? To fully understand…

to carry guns on school property. A gun on school property can deter a shooter by letting them know they won’t be the only person with a gun and people at this school are trained on how to properly use them in stressful situations. Teachers having guns also allows for faster response, this is a major benefit because now school personal do not have to wait to be “saved”. Lastly students and family will feel safer if active shooter situations arise, knowing they can be protected. Feeling safe and…

frightening and incomprehensible acts, with long-lasting effects on society. Representing the work of America’s ten deadliest school shooters, statistics compiled, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights, or are their victims struck at random, guilty of nothing more than of being in…

The United States is erupting into a constant state of fear. Active shooters are becoming more popular every day. On October 1st, 2017, an active shooter shot from the 32nd floor of a luxury hotel near a country concert. The result was devastating with a total of over fifty casualties. There was one tool that helped to advance the shooter; a bump stock that increases the fire rate. According to an article from CNN by James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory special agent and CNN law…

The lack of preparedness in the event of an active shooter scenario could potentially result in mass casualty. In order to ensure the safety of students and faculty on campus, we have scrutinized and noted deficiencies in the contemporary safety and lockdown procedures at Penn State Altoona. Furthermore, we have implemented a holistic approach to evaluate safety and lockdown procedures at additional institutions and performed a comparative analysis, to determine effectiveness. We have collected…

secure our students. This should be an issue that should be settled now by the people instead of waiting for congress to debate about how to solve this situation while many students are still in danger. Schools must add security measures, better active shooter training procedures, and more funds to increase security inside the school in order to secure the students. If society doesn’t do nothing now students will continue to be in danger and school crimes would still be increasing. These steps…

Carry on campus Active shooters have caused alarmed all throughout the U.S. and other places in the world. They have targeted elementary schools, high schools, churches, malls and universities. No one is excluded from these shootings, and sometimes we our to distracted and confident that they won’t occur on our campus. I believe TCC needs and urgent reform on campus carry, we need to speed up the date on the law approved by our legislation this pass year on campus carry so it can…

Concealed carry or CCW is a fundamental right in the United States of America guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Private citizens have the right to lawfully arm themselves and protect themselves with firearms. While many people believe that mass shootings can be prevented by making it harder to obtain the weapons that carry out horrible crimes, the truth of the matter is that making firearms more accessible to the people would limit the severity of mass shootings. If you…

Do guns need to be used at schools? May would say of course, to protect the students from active shooters, but do they really protect them? Some would say yes and others would say no. First, there is a big debate about gun control in our country right now because of the mass shootings and the murders. Gun fights have been happening in a lot of places, such as parking lots and schools. Many people feel we should have guns in schools, but they are not seeing the whole picture. If we put armed…

To facilitate this, the mental health care specialist will be trained in psychological first aid. Federal Emergency Management Agency (2013) state, “ PFA is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping” (p. 12). The normative functions of an organization can only return to optimal state when the people who comprise of it are able to perform to the best of their ability. Reducing initial and long-term…