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With all of the conversations on the board, and not knowing everyone's background and training, I thought that I would pass along one item that I found interesting in the last training exercise that I did with Federal Protective Services and local police. They no longer use the term "active shooter", but rather "active killer" , to reflect the fact that the individual may have weapons other than a gun. Apparently, there have been instances where the report or announcement was of an "active shooter" and people were injured or killed because they were looking to avoid someone with a gun, not any weapon. We have changed the pre-programmed announcement in this building as a result, as well as our employee training.

Appa23 wrote:With all of the conversations on the board, and not knowing everyone's background and training, I thought that I would pass along one item that I found interesting in the last training exercise that I did with Federal Protective Services and local police. They no longer use the term "active shooter", but rather "active killer" , to reflect the fact that the individual may have weapons other than a gun. Apparently, there have been instances where the report or announcement was of an "active shooter" and people were injured or killed because they were looking to avoid someone with a gun, not any weapon. We have changed the pre-programmed announcement in this building as a result, as well as our employee training.

So, let me get this straight. People saw this guy and said to themselves, "it's okay, he doesn't have a gun. I want to stand next to him."

silverscreenselect wrote:

Appa23 wrote:With all of the conversations on the board, and not knowing everyone's background and training, I thought that I would pass along one item that I found interesting in the last training exercise that I did with Federal Protective Services and local police. They no longer use the term "active shooter", but rather "active killer" , to reflect the fact that the individual may have weapons other than a gun. Apparently, there have been instances where the report or announcement was of an "active shooter" and people were injured or killed because they were looking to avoid someone with a gun, not any weapon. We have changed the pre-programmed announcement in this building as a result, as well as our employee training.

So, let me get this straight. People saw this guy and said to themselves, "it's okay, he doesn't have a gun. I want to stand next to him."

As I recall, the officer explained that when there were no gun shots being heard, people didn’t bunker in place and ran into the killer wielding the knife (or whatever).