Blog: Misfiring on Active-Shooter Preparation

Two years ago, while picking up my oldest daughter from school, I was overwhelmed with anxiety, fear and one all-consuming thought: Get her home.

I felt sick to my stomach and was struggling to process everything. Neighborhood fathers were standing outside every door at school, while many parents in the car pick-up line were crying uncontrollably. While I did not cry uncontrollably, I did cry when my first-grade daughter appeared. The reason? A few hours earlier, a person had killed 20 elementary students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. high school or grade school history, and second to only the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings in terms of all school levels. 

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