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The Critical Need for "Immediate Action Rapid Deployment" in School Invasions
By Rick Armellino
Baker Ballistics, LLC
Target rich
environments Does the existence of "gun-free school zones" make anyone safer against armed intruders while at school?
A wounded survivor vividly describes the speed and brutality displayed by an armed school invader inside a crowded classroom on Virginia Tech's state mandated gun-free campus; "he walked through the door, real fast, didn't say anything, all he did was bang, bang, bang, bang ---" Following the nine minute massacre, thirty-one innocent students and the one heroic professor were dead, and an additional twenty-eight students were injured, many seriously. America's gun-free zones stand as a monument to modern society's worship of good intentions, versus the cold reality that evil exists, even at schools.
There is a common thread
that links most, if not all recent mass murders and suicides at schools - the
killers' use of psychotropic mind-altering medications for common disorders such as shyness, hyper-activity and anxiety. Many of the current generation of young
adults attending college has been educated in an institutionalized public
school environment, criticized by some for advocating the use of psychotropic
medications to assist an alarming number of children advance through the
grades.
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2008 Update to 'The Five Phases of the Active Shooter' By Lt. Dan Marcou
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Once Upon a Time in America:Picture yourself attending a lecture in an auditorium of a local College, where you are taking classes to complete your master's degree. You are an off duty police officer seated in the audience listening to a presentation on community policing by a highly esteemed professor, when suddenly a heavily armed man dressed in black bursts through the door of the auditorium and opens fire with a Remington model 870 12 gauge shotgun. The auditorium transforms from the picture of decorum to bloody chaos immediately due to this ultimate act of terrorism. The killing is not for a country, it is not for a cause, it is not for Allah, nor even on behalf of a domestic radical group. The killing is for one thing and one thing only, "achieving a top score." You are already on the move, before the killer has fired his first shot. The shooter is oblivious to your presence, because he has an entire auditorium full of victims that he has turned into a swirling twirling mass of confusion and he is experiencing tunnel vision. He is in the midst of his twisted ecstasy.
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 By Andrew Hawkes
Officers often use the term "hidden compartments" when referring to large loads of narcotics hidden inside of vehicles. The term is rather generic and I like to break the term down into more specifics. Hidden compartments can encompass both Hidden NATURAL compartments, meaning areas of the vehicle that are hidden from the naked eye but are a natural part of the manufactured vehicle. The second type of hidden compartment would of course be the Hidden FALSE compartment, the compartment that is specifically built into the vehicle to hide contraband. Both Natural and False compartments can be utilized by the drug trafficker effectively, and often there is no difference as to which one is more successful. As a highly trained drug interdiction officer, you can successfully locate both types of compartments. The drug hauler doesn't think like an interdiction officer and that is what gets him/her caught. He is thinking, "If I can build this super secret compartment that no one can find I will get away with hauling this 50 kilos of coke". He thinks about how well the compartment is. On the other hand, a highly skilled interdiction officer doesn't worry about where the dope is hidden. He knows that if he picks up on the right indicators, if his interview leads to stories that don't make sense, then he knows he is going to find the load of dope no matter where in the car it is. article continues > | |
