What are the schools doing to prepare for such a threat?
Francis Q. Hoang in his abstract about school violence prevention shared the words of former FBI director, Louis Freeh, who said "It is imperative that, community by community, we find the ways to protect our children and secure for them the safe places they need to learn the hard business of growing up, to learn right from wrong, to learn to be good citizens." (Hoang, 2001). The ultimate challenge that schools today are facing is trying to provide a learning environment that is safe for all.
An Active Shooter Action Plan is a specific plan of action that provides the directions for students, staff, and police officers on campus to follow during an active shooter situation. An Active Shooter Plan is a different plan than any other action plans the school might have. Each
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According to Hoang, historically, two types of people commit these types of acts; Insiders and Outsiders. The insiders present as sociopaths (usually bullies), or psychopaths (loners who are violent.) and the outsiders typically visit people from other areas/schools or past friends or acquaintances. (Hoang, 2001).
Why someone would take a weapon and go to a public place and begin shooting everyone they see, is hard to determine but there are a few things to do to try and prevent someone from getting to this desperate place. The first is always being aware of people; how they act, what they talk about and what they post about on social media. Many of these people obsess about other shootings and can have an axe to grind. If a classmate is struggling with social interaction, begins to change behavior dramatically, or begins to disregard normal hygiene, these are all signs that something might be wrong.
Ferris State University has put together a video called “Active Shooter Preparedness” which provides the warning signs of an at-risk person who has the potential to do this kind of