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Since the Sandy Hook nightmare I've taken a step to do something about the lack of an adequate response once a shooter gets into the building. I visited the superintendent of my local public school district, whom I got to know a couple years ago when I did piping work in several of the buildings, last week and broached the subject of armed volunteers in each school. He is open to a discussion and invited me to attend a meeting "sometime" in February of staff and law enforcement to present my ideas. He said it isn't really open to the public but I would be his guest. (BTW they are already doing a lot; reviewing and writing SOP for an active shooter, making sure all classroom doors are lockable from the inside without a key and even having a "live fire" with blank ammo event for the teachers and staff after school so they can experience the sound and terror of a shooting.)
I plan to just present a straightforward message that no amount of alarms, locked doors, special glass or doors and frames will keep a determined terrorist out. I realize they already know this. They have to plan for WHEN he gets in and what they can do. I said I would be suggesting retired or off duty LEOs as well as military veterans and anyone else who is familiar with firearms, trains regularly, can pass a background check and is willing to lay their life down for the kids and staff. (The background check is with the State Police to make sure no one has a record of child related no-nos. That has been required for a while by all the local schools for construction workers who will work in their building.)
I feel that this particular school system is more open to this idea because it is rural. They know that there MAY be a state trooper or deputy sheriff SOMEWHERE in the area at any particular time. There definitely isn't any type of rapid response or SWAT team anywhere around. The school would be on its own for a long time before there would be any kind of reaction in force from any LE agency.
I will post updates here and ask that if anyone else is doing anything similar that they inform us so we can get a good program going in all Indiana schools.
Since the Sandy Hook nightmare I've taken a step to do something about the lack of an adequate response once a shooter gets into the building. I visited the superintendent of my local public school district, whom I got to know a couple years ago when I did piping work in several of the buildings, last week and broached the subject of armed volunteers in each school. He is open to a discussion and invited me to attend a meeting "sometime" in February of staff and law enforcement to present my ideas. He said it isn't really open to the public but I would be his guest. (BTW they are already doing a lot; reviewing and writing SOP for an active shooter, making sure all classroom doors are lockable from the inside without a key and even having a "live fire" with blank ammo event for the teachers and staff after school so they can experience the sound and terror of a shooting.)
I plan to just present a straightforward message that no amount of alarms, locked doors, special glass or doors and frames will keep a determined terrorist out. I realize they already know this. They have to plan for WHEN he gets in and what they can do. I said I would be suggesting retired or off duty LEOs as well as military veterans and anyone else who is familiar with firearms, trains regularly, can pass a background check and is willing to lay their life down for the kids and staff. (The background check is with the State Police to make sure no one has a record of child related no-nos. That has been required for a while by all the local schools for construction workers who will work in their building.)
I feel that this particular school system is more open to this idea because it is rural. They know that there MAY be a state trooper or deputy sheriff SOMEWHERE in the area at any particular time. There definitely isn't any type of rapid response or SWAT team anywhere around. The school would be on its own for a long time before there would be any kind of reaction in force from any LE agency.
I will post updates here and ask that if anyone else is doing anything similar that they inform us so we can get a good program going in all Indiana schools.