Campus officials conducting threat assessments should appreciate the value of the U.S. Secret Service’s new research but not rely on it as the sole source of reasoning for their conclusions.
The SlickMat offers a unique spin on lockdown solutions designed to thwart active shooters.
Training requirements, the risk of friendly fire, cost and many other factors make arming teachers a bad choice.
A neighbor recalls hearing the gunman say he was going to kill his other neighbor’s 7-year-old son at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School.
The superintendent says only eight to 10 seconds passed between the time the lockdown was completed and when the gunman began shooting at the school.
A yearbook with some students’ faces marked with X’s was also found in Caleb Sharpe’s home along with a ‘practice Molotov cocktail’.
Active shooter training must expand to counter other vulnerabilities on campus, including the active killer threat.