Preventing School Shootings

Preventing Columbine Over the past decade, there has been a spike in school shootings, one the most infamous took place at Columbine High School. This shooting has been spoken about across the globe because of the brutal killings two high school students engaged in. The two students committed an act so horrifying it shocked the nation. This tragedy has been contemplated for almost twenty years. The Columbine High School shooting is one of the deadliest school shootings in history, but it's recently been brought into the public eye again for its possible prevention. April 20, 1999 is a day many will remember as one of the most disturbing days in American history. Eighteen years ago on that date, over 20 individuals were injured and 11 were
These effects are all trying to prevent another school shooting from happening. Over the years, police has researched and tried to come up with better school shooting policies. With the rate of shootings growing each year, the policies need to become more elaborate. In 1999, mass shootings weren't as popular as they are now so the policies weren't as advanced as they are now. Trending security in schools are active shooter response procedures and security systems. A very popular and effective school shooting system is “run, hide, fight.” It's fairly new and was created in 2012 by the Department of Homelands Security. The rules go as if you can't escape, you hide, if you can't hide and all else fails you fight. Normal school shooting procedures call for the teachers to lock the door and move students to where they can't be seen. But, if a shooter does break through the door, they should attempt to fight or run. There would be many more problems if students attempted to flee first. This procedure is recommended to schools by the
Police found pipe bombs near Eric's house, he also had a violent website that those pipe bombs were linked to. After this, a search warrant for Eric's house was created but it was never issued. The police said there was no link between Eric and the pipe bombs. But, 60 minutes II gained the knowledge after a court battle that in fact, the police department knew more about the website than what they had previously stated. After this exposure the police department decided they were going to release the files from this case after there was backlash from victims families. On these files, from the website, Eric had threatened to blow up a number of individuals in the Denver area. Although the police released the files, families were angered because there were pages missing. Eric should have gone to jail for this incident. Another incident happened fifteen months before the shooting occurred Eric and Dylan broke into a car to steal electrical equipment. The police decided to let Dylan off free, but Eric would have to attend classes to try and help him get away from crime. At the end of his classes he had to write an essay explaining what he had learned, and if they changed him. Of course he lied in his essay so they wouldn't question him, and this knowledge was gained from his personal journal. Not only did the police make mistakes before the