Active shooter

portion of their own body weight and attempts to identify airmen that appear to be overweight in uniform. The USAF should focus on how to ensure airmen are physically fit to be able to perform their job duties and be able to adequately respond to active shooter and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) attacks. This brief will focus on addressing the present problems with the Air Force…

responsibility to protect the students. Allowing teachers to be armed in the classroom would increase the likelihood of everyone surviving if an active shooter enters the room because it would provide additional protection if the teachers are properly trained. Knowing any of us could be armed by making this policy public knowledge could make the possibility of that shooter entering the building even less likely. Hopefully no school will ever need to evaluate if this was the right decision or…

“Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.” -Simon Mainwaring. These type of notions are alien to the United States Army which in my opinion runs as an institution. Some institutions like the United States Army seldom listen to new and challenging ideas. However, if all…

How? On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School occurred killing 17 and injuring many more in Parkland, Florida. Nikolas Cruz arrived to the school using and Uber and pulled the fire alarm “so kids would come pouring out of classrooms and into the hall”. He used an AR-15 assault rifle and had smoke grenades(he had a gas mask). Cruz killed 17 people in this shooting, fourteen students and three teachers. Many people were affected by this shooting including the…

Ruger 10/22 Shooting cans with a .22 rifle is very satisfying, and is the first step many shooters take into sports like hunting, recreational shooting and competitive shooting. Few things are more satisfying as a kid than lining up a can in the sights of a .22 rifle, slowly squeezing the trigger, and embracing the unexpected buck of the rifle as it fires and making a can jump with a direct hit. Time changes, as with most things, ideas and philosophies progress with each new generation. It…

Gun control is a highly debated topic in the United States. For Americans, the 2nd Amendment “the right to bear arms” should be followed and not to be messed with. There has been 45 mass shootings in this year alone and the amount of active shootings has increased tremendously since 2001. This leads people to ask the question, should we have stricter gun controls laws here in the United States? More Americans seem to believe that more guns will solve all of the violence. According to the 2014…

Security cameras punctuate the perimeter of my school, a black fence separates the outside world from my secured campus, and police officers are staples of my everyday experience, and yet, they put me at ease. With the increased publicity and frequency of school shootings, such devices allow hundreds of schools like mine to promote their students’ senses of safety and their faculty’s sense of control about what goes on within the school. While many schools have adopted methods similar to those…

not be spent towards limiting gun owners of their rights. The tragic rash of school, religious, and workplace shootings has turned up the heat on the public conversation about guns. In nearly all of these cases gun laws would not have stopped the shooters from obtaining a firearm. This proves how increased gun control will not be the answer to end violent shootings. If someone was to break into your home, chances are that calling 911 will not save you. Self-defense techniques do not provide…

Columbine On April 20th, 1999 in the town of Littleton, Colorado the nation was horrified. Two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed thirteen and injured twenty four before turning the guns and proceeding to take their own lives.1 This was the school shooting that changed everything. It opened people's eyes to possibilities of murder-suicides happening in schools. It didn’t just affect their little town or even the state of Colorado, it prompted national debate and made…

university did not believe that a lockdown of the university was even possible because of its size. There were no cameras in dormitory areas, leaving the identity of Cho unknown until found at the scene. The VTPD and BPD were trained and practiced active shooter scenarios. In my opinion the campus emergency planning as a whole was not ready even if the police departments were. It is a collaborative effort and the university staff was not prepared for such a situation. Within the emergency…