The State of Ohio has announced that it is designing two portable “shoot houses” that will be available to school districts that authorize their employees to be armed on school grounds. Law enforcement agencies utilize two methods of training working officers. They are Scenario Based Training (SBT) and Reality Based Training (RBT). SBT involves a […]
Category Archives: School Safety
Responding to the active shooter threat
With the most recent school shooting in Iowa, the cries for a police officer in every school has risen again. The fact is that there are numerous reasons that a uniformed police officer is not an answer to the problem. The first issue is the cost of salary and benefits that the school district has […]
More on guns
FOX News anchor #TuckerCarlson spent the first twenty minutes of his nationally televised show on Tuesday, July 5 railing on the Governors of Illinois and New York for their moronic statements regarding gun control. Both states are among the most stringent laws in the country regarding firearms, yet they are the site of the last […]
The foible of new gun laws
In order for gun laws to have any effect, they must be enforced. That has not happened in the past and there is no reason that things will be different in the future. Assistant U.S. Attorneys are appointed positions and have the total freedom to pursue only those cases that interest them. Bank robberies are […]
Thoughts on School Safety
The recent shooting in a school in Florida has raised a firestorm of issues relating to school safety. Calls for restricting the sale of assault weapons, arming teachers and staff in the schools, mental health reforms, and hiring a professional security staff for all schools. All of these have pros and cons and this article […]