"Jeffburgh, post: 621944, member: 204"]Over five years ago our county law enforcement determined that they would not wait on active shooting scenarios in our public schools.
The Expert brought that up, called it lesson Of Columbine, because the first Responders waited too long and elsewhere when Mass Shooting were happening and they were told not to go in and wait for others. Then the Gun Controllers of Gun Free Zones blamed the Guns!
They do drills every year now and are coordinated that for any of them, as soon as they have enough law enforcement on site they will enter buildings to go after the shooters.
Well, not exactly, all accurate. Although they practice the drills many times, it was still not adopted as a practice to go in right away until they heard shootings like in Paris. What the Expert said is that is the new response now. Isis Threats and other Threats has changed waiting to going in now. I don't know about where you live. I know for a fact that in our county years ago, it was determined in our public schools by our local law enforcement that if there was a school shooting incident, once a certain number of tactical team members showed up they would enter the school and go after the shooter/s. They have drilled this for years now and would do it if it occurred.
Honestly, we are lucky more sporting events other than the boston marathon have not been hit.
Not luck at all, I was given a Tour of Heinz Stadium and Fort Pitt Tunnels with a group of selected people by PENNDOT and Stadium Security a few year ago and it was about Security everywhere. One needs special passes just to go to certain araes and limited and other aspects many do not know.
For example, If you ever need Gasoline run out nearby the Fort Pitt Tunnel near the bridge or after near the Tunnel and a Cop Car will be there is less than a minute with Gasoline to get you on your way.
When anyone important comes to Pittsburgh, the Tunnels are fill with Security in ways I cannot disclose, and Video can ID people faces in their cars, and when they can't that license is recorded for follow up!
This has added to the cost of games!
I understand that there there is more security now than ever at a lot of events, but not all. You can drive a truck full of cow poop wired up to explode close enough to a certain state school everyone here just loves that could take out side of the stadium and during a game and ... Any kind of "team" of people could go on a shooting rampage at any event ...
We are divided, and I will just leave it at that because it will get far too contensious to call the mindbending partisan divide in this country.
This is often misunderstood, Americans are always divided because of our right to opinions, but the better informed and smarter people always are united to face any threat but it takes time to adapt and trail and errors of new ways to stop those that seek to kill. Sure, at first many argue what to do, but sooner or later once America focuses on the threats they come to new ways to protect and adapt too!
We are going to keep on going and will be fine, but the stupid in this country is painful.
The perspective in the country is so out of whack, it defies belief.
It may seem so, but I can tell you, exactly what happens when a President meets with his National Security Council,after a horrific event happens! Only one question is asked ...CAN THEY HURT US AGAIN?
After that answer, then decisions are made what to do, some get delayed, some get implemented, and when it happens again, more changes happen even faster.
Democracy are based on debate on what to do, but sooner or later when threats appear, action happens far more faster and not seen, so the threats are attacked and not alerted what is going happen next to them. Sometime it is ignored, but as soon as it happens again, attention does rise and counter measures taken, and not always constitutional.
We have so many bigger issues here at home we dont even have the first capacity to come together and address, but the focus now is on something we really cant "fix."
Well, I disagree, invitations and requirements to attend some Seminars on exactly these issues by Experts that study it everyday, increase and spread to get more ideas on how to meet and stop the threats. Sure, it looks often like we are ignoring and unprepared, but like anything else, every failure is admitted privately, but is studied and learned by others and then shared to get more information, to out last and strike back in ways the threats cannot adapt to then, but threats come every day, what is important is to stop that that day.
Many things happen for years without being known or published, but that is trial and errors mistakes happen too, and not every success can be talked about either.
I am not saying we aren't doing anything or in fact are not doing a pretty good job with security. But, we can't kill them all and can't read the minds of everyone on the planet to every possible situation like Cali. These jackwagons ARE going to pull of things like this again. But, while we do what we have to do to try to prevent that, we lose a LOT more lives in a lot of different ways domestically that could be avoided if we worked on solutions to those issues, and literally nothing gets done AT BEST, while we have a lot of the country advocating for things that make it all worse.
People are just far too caught up in a superficial view of things, living a life of comfort that gives way to a calloused and childish view of things.
Well, that was exactly a Topic as well, in fact one Topic Quote was "War Teaches Americans About Geography!" It is a changing Global World with Global Economic consequences and Americans are used to knowing only about our local communities, regions, and ares, but when someone from a misguided belief comes from the desert and strikes to kill and hurt Americans, America takes time, and stops it first and then strikes back,, and that is often not known for years. Every Police Force and Security Groups are now learning new responses in this new brave rule of the purposeless process of societal suicide but we have many more that want to live and grow and be safe, and many are protecting us than we know.
We are so blessed to have been born in this country, but god dam we are just some stupid screws right now ...
Your opinion is well noted, and part of the solutions being worked upon as we post and speak about it, we might not all know what to do, and when to do it, but we study our failures more so we can learn to be a better success....kind like a Football Coach that learns from his mistakes but still coaches up his Players. In fact, we are blessed because people like you speak your mind too, and we all have doubts no one is doing anything, but your concerns and time help solve problems that need debate and time and action to solve sooner or later, therefore you are correct sir and part of the solution! We all are!