Some facts about mass shootings

English: A member of the Dutch "SWAT" team Français : Un membre d'une Brigade d'Intervention néerlandaise (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

… and what we ought to be doing about them:

• Incidents have increased from 5 per year to 15 per year in the past couple of years
• In some instances, police have waited outside the school or other venue, while the shooter did his dirty work.
• In one out of six incidents, civilians at the scene subdued the shooter

As a consequence, advanced thinking trainers are teaching police and civilians how to better respond to active shooters.  Police

• Need to take action individually and not wait for the swat team to arrive
• They need to have rifles or shotguns in the cars
• They need to have the necessary body armor on board
• They need to know basic EMT techniques

Civilians

• Need to internalize the protocol of run, hide, defend… in that order, and
• In my opinion, key employees need to be trained and authorized to carry weapons.

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