Bolton Strid wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:49 pm
The sort of resources and ROE customarily used by the military cannot be employed for this, for obvious reasons. It's been fortunate so far, if you can call it that, it's been disordered, mentally disorganized people who have pushed these sort of attacks out of some sort of delusion or unchecked impulse to act, who have no plan, no honed tactics besides "attack". But what if there comes a day attackers appear who are quite organized and have a plan, a worst case scenario comparable to the Beslan school siege, the Dubrovka Theater takeover. Another whole level of concern, particularly in the face of the porous border we have, with who knows what coming across it.[/size]
But I would like to offer a different perspective. When I got my then CHL, I was ill prepared for most of the types of threats that I might face where deadly force could be needed. I started on a journey to improve both my skills and my mindset. Yet, today, I'm ill prepared for a group of skilled adversaries. That probably won't change in my lifetime. I see the type of threats on a sliding scale and work to move my "needle" along that scale to harder and harder problems. Hopefully, the types of threats that I now feel better positioned to handle are the majority of the risks that I face. I see the schools in much the same way. The first step is loudly saying "I'm not going to be a victim" and following it up with constant improvements to tighten vulnerability. It would be unfortunate for both myself and a school to become victims of challenges that were greater than our response capabilities. But the history of the types of attacks on both of us suggests that some preparation and planning to limit the success of evil. The realism that we cannot be 100% should not stop us from being greater than zero. Alas, too many public education settings are not much above zero.