….Three-member teams from 43 Catholic elementary schools are participating in the San Diego County Office of Education’s intensive, four-day Diamond Safety Team Training series, which puts them through intensely realistic simulations of crisis situations, equips them with practical threat-assessment strategies, and ultimately will help them to develop a comprehensive campus-safety plan.
….Diocesan educators attended their first day of training Aug. 1 on the campuses of St. Therese of Carmel Parish and neighboring Notre Dame Academy. About 140 people participated in the five-hour session, which introduced them to the Diamond Safety Team concept and trained them in how to proactively identify concerning behaviors on campus and de-escalate situations that could lead to violence….
The second day was held Aug. 2 for one group of diocesan educators and Aug. 8 for a second group. Both took place at the Kearny Mesa-based Strategic Operations, Inc., a provider of what it describes as “Hyper-Realistic tactical training services” for law enforcement, first-responders, the military and others.
The day’s activities included an introductory “stop-the-bleed” course, as well as the opportunity to apply those techniques during an active-shooter training exercise that featured mannequins and professional actors in “cut suits” that would only stop bleeding if the necessary life-saving measures were performed correctly.
Participants also were trained in radio communication during emergencies and attended presentations by subject-matter experts on bullying prevention and how to identify drug paraphernalia and “ghost gun” parts if they turn up on campus….
From the Southern Cross
Teachers should also be permitted to carry concealed weapons and receive free firearms training. The first responder could be a teacher with a gun used in defense to stop the threat.
Consider having blood storage on site.
Ambulances do not carry blood.
Children can bleed out in minutes.
You can’t store blood for very long.
Yes. It can be frozen but then takes time to thaw.
takes more time to thaw than for a kid to bleed out and die, so what’s the point?
So store fresh and replace. Every community has blood stored somewhere.
the cafeteria has microwaves. the teacher’s break room probably does too.
What we really need is a nation that doesn’t have school shootings, where kids don’t have to go to school in fear, don’t have to have active gun shooting prevention drills, where parents can feel assured that their kids will come home when the school day is done. Meetings and training sessions like this tell the story of a nation that is failing. Gun-shots are the number one killer of kids in the U.S. Other nations don’t have the problems that we encounter almost daily. There have been over 500 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. That is not a reflection of a civilized society. I’m not sure how we can cure/save ourselves from this scourge, but I know that it is not more guns in schools. Schools have become prisons in too many communities – fenced-in, metal detectors, armed guards, etc. Is that what we want for our children? I sometimes wonder why we don’t want to take guns away from those who should not have them.
When we advocate for gun-toting teachers in the classrooms, we are at the same time saying that it is OK for others to come to the schools with guns firing as long as we can kill them when they do. The logic astounds.
We didn’t used to have school shootings, and there were plenty of guns around and kids used them under parent supervision. What happened is Democrats started creating a society in which violent crime became more prevalent. And the nation stopped being majority Christian.
Now that we’ve let thousands of terrorists into our country, expect more violence when the Islamic Hamas insurgence comes to our soil.
Yes, what will people like Bob One say when Islamicists slaughter defenseless children in schools, as they slaughtered and decapitated babies in Israel?
World peace is a pipedream. You have to be prepared to defend yourself against the evil people in the world and in your own country.
What lhappened – Let’s use some real data: the country is still majority Christian. So the third sentence in your posting is incorrect, for now.
In 1990, 90% of Americans claimed to be Christian. Today, only 66% call themselves Christian. What happened? today 29% of the population say they belong to no denomination, and other religions have not made significant gains. It could be that it is not the fault of any political party but of Christianity itself. Crime could or could not be the fault of one party or the other, but the data is sparse because since 1953 Republicans have been in power 51% of the time and Democrats 49% of the time, so it may be a pox on both parties and shift in mores of the nation. We do know that immigrants, even the illegals, do not commit crimes at a higher level than established citizens. I find it hard to believe that one party or the other would “start creating a society …”
You do not have to be a Christian to believe that killing is wrong. I don’t think most people want to kill innocent strangers especially children. There is research on this. You do not have to blame religion or politics.
it’s 98% men. There’s four women in the database, two of them perpetrated the shooting with a man. So we see this common pathway and of course it’s a little different for each person, but this pathway seems to start with really significant early childhood trauma. So things like physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicide of a parent, domestic violence in the home. Over time, that individual becomes angry, becomes isolated, becomes hopeless, there’s a lot of self-loathing there. Many of them are suicidal and attempt suicide before doing a mass shooting. Then that self-loathing kind of turns outward and it becomes whose fault is this? Who do I blame for the fact that I feel this way? So school shooters blame their school. Workplace shooters blame their workplace. Other people blame religious groups, or racial groups, or women.
Perpetrators tend to be radicalized through studying other shooters before them. Many of them spend time on the internet in kind of these dark chat rooms where violence is really celebrated and validated. And then they go into this act knowing it’s their final act. So they’re kind of actively suicidal, planning to die in the act. They have access to the firearms that they need. And many of them leak their plans. Many of them tell other people they’re thinking about violence before they do it. And then they go out and they choose a location that’s symbolic of their grievance with the world because they’re looking for this fame and notoriety in their death that they didn’t have in their life. Dr. Jillian Peterson
They tell people because they want someone to stop them.
If someone tells you that, say “Don’t do it.”
Let the authorities know.
Sometimes they tell people online.
98% of men: Thank you for alerting me to the work of Dr. Jillian Peterson. I had not heard of her before. I just watched a couple of her videos on YouTube and found the content to be excellent.
Bob One, it is not the fault of Christianity.
Some people just get out of the habit of going to Church for whatever reason.
Pray for lapsed Catholics.
And for the unchurched.
“When we advocate for gun-toting teachers in the classrooms, we are at the same time saying that it is OK for others to come to the schools with guns firing as long as we can kill them when they do. The logic astounds.” Bob One, I would suggest that teachers carrying should stand as a deterrent to those who might come to school with guns– saying in effect–it is not OK for you to come to school with guns.
Precisely. The reason assailants target schools is because they know that schools are mostly “gun free zones” where they won’t encounter immediate resistance to their attack, and they can inflict severe carnage before the police arrive. It’s an example of how liberals think that declaring something to be so makes it so. In this case, they think declaring a school a gun free zone protects the people at the school from guns. To the contrary, it increases the danger. Similar to how liberals think that declaring a man to be a woman makes him a woman; it’s not so. I could go on and on.
The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given new efficacy in the recitation of the Holy Rosary. She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families … that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.
Venerable Sister Lucia of Fatima
How about stopping Hamas and other terrorists at the southern border of the diocese?
Too late. They are here and awaiting activation.
At catholic schools, apparently, zero concern
about the mortal wounds inflicted by the
“firey darts” of the Adversary.
Catholic schools taking way more casualties
on this area. Ho hum.