Active Shooter Teacher Training Sim

[LeMarchand]

 

Using video game technology and animation, the U.S. Army and Homeland Security Department have developed a computer-based simulator that can train everyone from teachers to first responders on how to react to an active shooter scenario.

 

Surprised they're not just issuing them with sidearms and a few hours free at the gun range. After all, if everyone was armed the "good" people could just draw down on them thar villains.

[mikes]

well I hope this shooting sim takes into account that walls in schools are incredibly thin; if you fired an assault rifle in our school it would probably go through at least 3 classrooms.

 

You know in America if I was a teacher I'd probably bring a pistol into school and keep it locked in a drawer; at least then if a nutter comes in you at least can protect some kids. I think the culture over there is very nasty, everyone for themselves, helping others is seen as lame... look at how the cops behave over there, they pull a gun before they open their mouths.

 

 

Honestly I think the situation in US schools is something out of an orwell novel. you walk through metal detectors as you go in. a strict no drugs policy (meaning no paracetamol... they stripped a 13 year old girl down to her underwear because she had a 400mg ibuprofen - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/03/24/1947221/strip-search-case-tests-limits-of-4th-amendment -

one school issued each student a laptop, and used remote admin tools to spy on those students when they were at home; when the students asked about why the webcam light kept coming on, they were told lies about it being normal and that covering up the cam with tape was considered "damage" - what kind of a country are we talking about here

 

I am so glad I live in the UK where the most scared I feel working in a school is worrying about if an oldie will crash into me during the drive home! and the worst our nutters seem to do is slash a few tyres

 

- edit - and your bit at the bottom about issuing teachers handguns was sarcasm - i am pretty sure one US state is ACTUALLY issuing every teacher with a sidearm, for real, i will try to find the link - edit 2 - US gun laws: Colorado to arm teachers in classrooms - BBC News

it's colorado - this year, when SMT ask what courses I would like to go on, I'm going to ask to go on a firearms training course

Edited January 5, 2018 by mikes

[mikes]

I can imagine things going wrong with this policy too.

 

I am a fairly young looking guy, I lost my ID badge. I am at work and hear a bang that sounds like a gunshot, and kids scream.

I pull out my issued sidearm, and go to the coridoor. A new long term cover teacher (who I've spoken to via e-mail a few times but have never seen), does the same; walks into the hallway, sees a young guy (me) with no ID badge in the coridoor with a handgun; what does he do? blows me away. turns out the bang was a science pressure experiment someone left the lid on too long for.

Edited January 7, 2018 by mikes