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Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis
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Stop the Killing offers insight into what each of us can do to end the active shooter crisis plaguing America. Written by the former head of the FBI’s active shooter program, Katherine Schweit, shares an insider look at what we’ve learned, and failed to learn, about protecting our businesses, houses of worship, and schools. The book demystifies the language around active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and more. Never gathered before into one place, readers gain access to evidence-based research and the most up-to-date information as they travel step-by-step through shooting prevention efforts and shooting aftermaths. Beginning with an understanding of how to spot potential shooters, readers learn the many ways to prevent shootings and the role threat assessment teams play. Threat assessment experts provide insight on what kind of information they need, and how they use it to intercept a person on a pathway to violence. The book guides readers through the process of assessing building security weaknesses and shows how to find vulnerabilities in people, programs, and policies. Packed with practical advice for training every age, from preschoolers, to elementary school children, to adults, the book also includes the author’s own teaching outline on how to train people to run, hide, fight. The book gathers together examples to help build individualized emergency operations plans and shows how to tap vast government resources to cover costs to your office and employees, districts and students, and survivors and victim’s families. Hear sober advice gathered from those who have survived and responded to shootings at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Aurora theater, Los Angeles International Airport, and more. Their common theme is that it can happen anywhere and has. All the more reason to accept that as each of us better understand what happens and how to prevent it, we can be the ones to stop the killing. The book also features a new preface exploring the 2021 school shooting tragedy in Michigan, especially the groundbreaking use of a domestic terrorism charge filed against the shooter and involuntary manslaughter charges filed against his parents.
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3.5
“This book is an outstanding resource for anybody concerned about the safety of their business, school, place of worship, or government office in this age of the proliferation of guns in America.
I now understand, for example, why there are giant red concrete balls planted in front of Target store entrances.
There’s a lot more people can do to prevent active shooter incidents, but the subtitle of the book (“How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis”) — in America presumably — is a little optimistic.
Author Katherine Shweidt doesn’t explicitly say how her community will end the crisis. She writes more, though, on how to slow it down, how to mitigate the harm these occurrences cause, and how to plan ahead of time to prevent future occurrences.
You may quibble with Schweidt's recommendation to RUN,HIDE, or FIGHT if, God forbid, you are a victim of a shooter, but I can tell you that on at least one occasion I fought back (a couple of muggers, not shooters). While it didn't prevent me from being injured or from suffering PTSD in the aftermath, it helped me focus my attention the task at hand -- making sure it was not my last day on this earth, not the last day I would see my wife and children again.
But for anybody who thinks their government does nothing -- a widespread attitude not only in America but where I live as well, which happens to be Canada -- your governments are doing a lot to prevent future mass shootings, to educate you on what you can do to help them in this quest, to mitigate the harm of future shootings, and to support the victims.
It is also a reminder that first responders suffer from PTSD from attending to the aftermath of shootings, and these first responders are not faceless bureaucrats...they are your neighbors, too.”
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