WESTBOROUGH, MA October 22, 2024 – The daily round up of active shooter incidents seems so repetitive and grim. People are learning the concept of run, hide, or fight in defense of their right to live or work, or attend concerts. Here in the United States, there are active shooter events every day or every week. These events start and end quickly averaging only 7-10 minutes before the shooter is dead. But in that time shooters fire hundreds of high power .223 rounds from assault rifles purchased for only this reason the police arrive and usually are met by the recently deceased body of the angry and misguided shooter.
The “active shooter” refers to just that – ongoing, systematic slaughter of innocent civilians with the specific purpose of violence and murder. These events start and end quickly averaging only 7-10 minutes before the shooter is dead.
Michael Sefton 2013
Some argue it is the availability of firearms that creates the opportunity for mass killing. Countries that have strict gun laws rarely see recurring gun violence. Japan, Norway, Iceland, and many other countries have rates of gun violence that are flat in terms of recurring active shooter events. That means that police rarely are called upon the face an active shooter like police officers here in the United States. And the noncombatants are left to wait for reunification with parents and counseling. Prayers for all. Teddy bears and candles abound. And the ultimate answers as to why this happened will be revealed in the psychotic, rambling, manifesto of the mentally injured shooter. That will tell us all we need to know about school shooting and those who might bring us harm.
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