What to Do in a School Shooting

What to Do in a School Shooting

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Neil Gorsuch Hearings, The Bad Kids, Space Junk

Episode: Neil Gorsuch Hearings, The Bad Kids, Space Junk

  • Mar 23, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 17:00 mins

Guest: Greg Crane, CEO and Founder of the ALICE Training Institute Columbine, Virginia Tech and Newtown are tragic and well-known school shootings. But a tally of news and police reports by the advocacy group Every Town for Gun Safety shows that since 2013, there’s been an average of nearly one instance a week of a gun fired on school property somewhere in America. Thankfully, most of those instances have not ended in mass casualties. Still, responding to an active shooter is now on the list of things school officials and students are expected to prepare for – along with earthquakes and fire. Many are turning to a training called “ALICE,” that is somewhat controversial because it teaches students and teachers to fight back, rather than just hunker down and hope to survive.