Active shooter

71% of active school shooters can flee the scene, while 32% are never even caught. This alarming fact leaves parents, family, and friends of K-12 students alert when sending their children off to school each morning. To prevent school shootings, districts have been allowing teachers to arm themselves in the classroom. With this policy in place, school shootings and fleeing perpetrators will be threatened, even if they attack the school in the first place. Teachers have to protect their children,…

from everyone that is not military or police, and arming teachers across the country. While both of these solutions have their benefits and flaws, one very important aspect of the active shooter epidemic seems to be overlooked, and that is the mental state of these people that will eventually turn into active shooters. When looking at the mentality of these people, there are two parts of the issue that are rarely addressed when trying to find a solution,…

firearms deaths” in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Between 77 and 141 of those killed were children.” In his article he talks about the active shooter situations that have gone on in the United States in the past couple of years. The latest active shooting he talks about is Stephen Paddock the active shooter that killed approximately 59 people and injured 527 as they were in Las Vegas attending a country…

Say, an educator is face to face with a school shooter in their classroom, both of them having weapons actively ready and on them. There’s still no guarantee the teacher will be able to successfully take down the shooter, even if it was just the two of them face-to-face. Dr. Linda Woolf of Webster University argues that, unlike in television and movies, killing a person is much harder…

Pennsylvania. I work in patrol and I am also assigned to our regional SWAT team. In my off time I enjoy working out, camping and doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In addition to being a police officer, I have spent 20 plus years in the military both active and national guard. Due to my busy schedule AMU was the best fit for me and the only school with the specific program I wanted. To me digital information literacy is your ability to use digital media to gather information. Information…

improve. To avoid shootings, teachers should be able to have firearms held in a safe place in case of emergency lockdowns when an active shooter is on the premises. The recent shooting in Florida, sparked up conversations on gun laws in the United States. In this particular devastating shooting 17 people were killed. Most times when schools are on lockdown because a shooter is on the campus, its only so much you could possibly do. Honestly, to me the procedures that school districts provide us…

easily gain a lot of publicity in a very short time. Some violent crimes that are seen are shootings. Each major shooting that is covered by the mass media may inspire or trigger another mentally ill person to carry out a “copy-cat” crime. These mass shooters are hungry for notoriety or recognition and become “infamous” instead. Some examples…

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explains why there are over 250 million guns in our society. Both students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on school, especially and of course, on college campuses. This is because the brandishing of a weapon can force an active shooter to recoil or change his attack plan. It would also give those being attacked an opportunity to protect themselves, and also give them a better chance to consciously save other lives. It is bizarre how many organizations, to…

hard difficulty of lessons and practicing guns. The teacher shouldn’t have guns in school because you don’t know if they can do something dumb to themselves or the students. The teacher can try to practice a lot but what if they can’t stop an active shooter, what if they miss? What if they hit a kid?. Teachers can shoot others if they’re going through stressed. Teachers would have guns to shoot the mass killer, but what if a teacher accident shoot, then hit a student, would the teacher go to…