rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
just, you know, theoretical training inside of a classroom but in-person training, in hallways where they would role play scenarios of what an active shooter would be like and how they would respond to it. it brought together multiple agencies from around the area so they could figure out how to work together and in the class room, you know, they were learning how to respond quickly and that the emphasis, the priority was get in there quickly and confront the gunman and stop the killing. that s the priority. but donald harbin, you know from having done this work, training to run in and pretend to confront somebody that s got an ar-15 which is basically an m-16 but not automatic, it s similar to what they use in war. it s different to train to run in and confront a pretend shooter and a real shooter and most police don t actually do that on a regular basis. most of their job does not require them to run into armed fire, right, so the training doesn t necessarily do any good.