Active shooter

different forms of preparation to ensure that they are prepared and capable to play the role of protecting their students. Teachers would spend on average 60 hours of training to even be able to carry a gun on campus and they have to participate in an active school shooting training session. Involving a dozen of administrators wearing protective gear to act as law enforcement officials. After all the simulations are done, teachers then have to take hours of weapons training, which ensure the…

The failed bombing and subsequent shooting of Columbine High School in 1999 was one of the most eye opening and unexpected events of the 90s. All shreds of normalcy disappeared for teens and parents alike as a safe haven for children was turned shooting gallery. Many images that came out of Columbine were striking, heart wrenching, or maddening, but the image selected portrays one of the rawest emotions coming out of the tragedy: the unmeasurable amount of mourning and loss felt in the affected…

purposes combined. SWAT has had 80,000 raids in 2015 alone. They use heavy duty military equipment, such as explosives, and automatic weapons that have been supplied from the Pentagon since the 1990’s. SWAT positions usually include the roles of active shooters, helping in shooting spree scenarios, retrieving a barricaded suspect, hostage rescue situations, counter terrorism scenarios, protecting VIP’s, high-risk arrests and searches, and riot control. Since the declaration of the War on Drugs…

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, terrorism is defined as “the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal.” There are two types of terrorism, international and domestic terrorism. International terrorism is terrorist activities that are foreign-based and/or sponsored by organizations or groups outside the United States. Domestic terrorism is terrorist activities that focus on facilities or populations without foreign direction…

Leadership Model According to the American College of Education, there are three possible leadership domains; Instructional Leadership, School and Community Leadership, and Administrative Leadership.(Jandes, 2013, Week 3, Part 1, Slides 2-5) To be a very good educational leader, you must be able to balance between all three and show an understanding in all three domains. If I had to pick a domain that I believe and will adhere to it is the School and Community Leadership Domain because I…

What is striking is the way Meredith puts the life of her loved-one before her own: she does not hesitate to tell the shooter to shoot her instead of Derek and even lists reasons for him to do so. After the immediate danger has passed for her husband, she is able to act rationally and even operate on her best friend's husband to remove the bullet while she herself is suffering…

However, according to Bushman, the opposite is true. The effect of games like Call of Duty are aggressive thoughts, and behavior, as well as angry feelings and physiological arousal. The active participation involved in video games is the reason why the results of game play tend to include aggressive feelings. The active participation causes people to pick up and learn behaviors better, and also is why video games might have a greater effect on people than violence portrayed on TV (Keim).…

The United States has not had a change in pace with domestic terrorims in regards to events occuring. However, the steps taken to make the preventative measures has increased. You can see that through the amount of military personnel being shipped out. I do not believe the United States is in a better position than before The Homeland Security Bill was created, or now. Heres why, starting back in 1978-1995 Ted Kaczynki, (unabomber) is known for the mail bombings that killed 3 people. 1993, The…

There are a number of reasons as to why youths join gangs. Some of the main reasons of youths joining a gang is for protection, to gain respect, and to earn easy money. As a result, youths engage in delinquency behaviors that leads them to commit criminal acts; becoming aggressive and careless, as well as developing problems in school, and needless to say associate themselves with other gang involved youths. But most importantly, according to Miller youths join gangs for the simple feeling of…

progress”(Johns Hopkins Center ). The Johns Hopkins Center also found that “An FBI analysis of active-shooter situations between 2000 and 2013 found that unarmed civilians were more than 20 times as likely to end an active shooting than were armed civilians.” The statistics there helps develop a better thinking of people with and without guns in shooting situations. The people without guns are more likely to end an active shooting. The more violence there is and the less guns we have available…