This shooting occurred in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Shooter Adam Lanza killed 20 children and 6 staff members.
What is Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting?
100
This is the typical motivation behind many mass shootings.
What is revenge or envy?
100
This preventative strategy will allow school and safety officials to quickly locate the shooter on campus and keep track of everyone who comes in and out of the premises.
What is security cameras?
100
The proactive approach discussion often includes this controversial topic and is dependent on one's political standpoint and interpretation of the 4th Amendment.
What is Gun Control?
100
What do you think is the one most effective ways schools could currently do to prevent school shootings?
What is [insert opinion here]?
200
This school shooting occurred in Colorado in 1999 and involved two shooters.
What is Columbine High School Massacre?
200
The theoretical approach involves teachers and school staff being aware of this in order to prevent potential perpetrators from acting out.
What are risk factors?
200
This is the most common type of reactive approach in schools and is required on all school campuses in all grade levels.
What is lockdown drills?
200
This proactive approach can be most expensive and resembles strategies often taken at airports, courts, and other busy public places.
What are metal detectors?
200
Campus safety officers available 24/7, firearm policies, and lockdown drills, and Emergency Notification Alert System
What is Cal Lutheran's preventative strategy?
300
At this school shooting, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people of staff, students, and teachers on April 16, 2007.
What is Virginia Tech School Shooting?
300
This risk factor is found in all levels of school violence and can contribute to an environment of fear, harassment, and intimidation within the school.
What is bullying?
300
While it serves as somewhat of a deterrent, this approach is meant to increase response time and actions to a shooting or act of violence. Meant to keep further damage from happening.
What are Patrol Officers or Campus Officers?
300
This approach can be both proactive and reactive, in this case, it is meant to serve as a deterrent to potential school shooters.
What is Patrol Officers or Campus Officers?
300
This reactive approach is seen to be ineffective because it requires students to all gather in one place, creating an easy target for victims.
What is lockdown drills?
400
This year had the largest number of deaths from school shootings from 1990 until present day.
What is 2007?
400
True or False: Most school shooters acted on impulse and could not have been stopped.
What is False?
400
This approach can have very little effect but is meant to alert all those on campus of an emergency or dangerous event. Can be very specific or just use sound.
What is a PA system?
400
This approach is most controversial and was recently approved for some school campuses.
What is armed teachers?
400
This form of prevention is difficult to implement because it is expensive, requires a large number of resources, and creates an automatic sense of danger on campus.
What is proactive prevention?
500
In 2015, there were this number of total school shootings throughout the year, regardless of whether there were death or injuries.
What is 64?
500
Name 5 possible warning signs of violent youth or potential shooters
What are...?
500
This preventative approach is meant to help schools or other institutions respond to an emergency or event like a shooting more appropriately not to prevent.
What is a reactive approach?
500
This preventative strategy is meant to keep violent events like school shootings from happening in the first place.
What is the proactive approach?
500
This approach could potentially be very effective in both proactive and reactive prevention but also contradicts policies of firearms on school campuses and places too much liability on the school.