Active shooter

the possibility of active shootings in an organization as well as the increased risk of terrorism. Similarities and Differences All of the articles provided real scenarios and situations of active shootings…

Over all, I can say that I enjoyed this entire week here at my host agency. Even though I was not required to come into the department Monday for the holiday, I still choose to come and be involved with the family and friends of the organization. On Memorial Day, here at the department there were snacks and games that both the officers and their families could be involved in. I acknowledged the environment and thought it was genuinely a nice thing for the department to do for each other. I’ve…

from Active Shooters and Mass Shooters”. This website is to inform parents on how to protect your children and safety tips for them as well. Parents will read this website and get all panicked because they will never want their child to go through something so harmful, they always jump to the worst conclusion. Can parents actually rely on this website? Do all the safety tips look reliable? Or is it just someone stating their opinion on how these tips can protect their child if an active shooter…

School shooters do not fit a common “cookie cutter” mold. Shooters are quite different in their motives and experiences. One hundred forty seven school shootings have taken place since the Sandy Hook attack where one boy shot twenty-seven people to death in an elementary school. 270 school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack when two boys shot thirteen people in school. It is still a mystery as to how shooters keep sneaking under the nose of the public. School shootings, like Columbine,…

Arming Teachers The numbers active shooters are getting double shooters are thinking There is no good security on the effect of arming teachers or the effect of putting more armed police or security in schools which by self should be evidence-based but based on the evidence we do have there enough to suggest that putting more guns in schools could actually make gun violence. The number of active shooters are getting double. Shooters are thinking there is no security in schools so other…

Nurses have the greatest duty to their patients, but what are they to do when an active shooter comes to their facility? There have been many hospital related shootings from 2000 to 2011. According to a 2012 Johns Hopkins study that was published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, there were 154 hospital-related shootings that occurred from 2000…

Recently there has been a lot of worldwide debating regarding the Texas Lawmakers passing a bill allowing guns on college campuses. There are many different opinions circulating this topic from gun advocates to professors and college students. Is it safer for a college community to have a carry conceal policy on campus than to have no policy at all? This question has come as a huge challenge in today’s society as the number of school shootings rise. The latest school shooting happened at Texas…

in the shortest amount of time possible. Time is of the essence when responding to school shooting incidents. The sooner the response teams arrives the quicker that they can play the role of neutralizing the shooter. As mentioned earlier, the type of incident is an active school shooter emergency response and evacuation drill. Although school shooting scenarios may be uncomfortable for some kids and maybe even some personnel, it is necessary with the number of recent school shootings in…

Safety is a critical core value that bestows a sense of confidence and caring in those who are a part of the safety culture when it is actively practiced (Hill et al., 2012). A safety culture is the reflection of an organization’s attitudes, actions and behaviors of its concern for safety. Students are the heart of the safety culture in Institutions of Higher Education. Colleges and universities develop policies and procedures that clearly define their ideal safety culture. They have the…

Recently, there has been a debate over allowing teachers to carry guns in schools. This debate arose when a nineteen-year-old went to a school in Florida with an assault rifle and killed seventeen people. Many people question how he was able to obtain that sort of weapon. This arose the debate of whether teachers should be allowed to bring their own gun for their and the student's safety. Guns are very dangerous and can cause serious harm to an individual, therefore, teachers should not be…