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In April 1999, the Columbine High School massacre in Columbine, Colorado (34 shot — 13 killed, 21 wounded) made the nation aware of the active shooter threat to America's schools. At the time, it was the worst school mass shooting in U.S. history. School shootings have greatly increased in the 2000s, and active shooter mass shooting/casualty incidents have continued. In May 2022, the Robb Elementary massacre in Uvalde, Texas (41 shot — 21 killed, 20 wounded) became the worst school massacre in U.S. history. READ MORE...
Despite the growing threat, schools remain ill-equipped to defend against an active shooter mass casualty attack because state governments have failed to protect their schools with proactive security and safety measures that make classrooms and other teaching rooms protected spaces, provide effective alert systems, and deliver actionable intelligence to 9-1-1 and law enforcement.
In the spring of 2023, the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) conducted an in-depth lessons-learned study of five school mass shootings that occurred between 2018 and 2023. The study revealed that in those shootings, 112 children, teachers, and staff were shot, most of them within four minutes. Of the 112 casualties, 80 occurred in classrooms.
As a result of their in-depth lessons-learned analysis, the NTOA identified nine security and safety measures that they recommend as the minimum standards to protect every school. In the five school shootings studied, these nine minimum standards would have prevented 109 of the 112 victims from being shot.
The NTOA-recommended standards provide the first-ever opportunity for a state school safety bill. Act now by sending a letter to your legislators urging them to pass a school safety bill based on the NTOA MINIMUM STANDARDS.
Please follow the steps below.
Fill out the form below and submit.
Find your local legislator by following the steps below:
Go to Open States.
Scroll down to the "Find Your Legislators" searchbar.
Enter your address or zip code.
The site will list your State Legislators with links to their profiles and contact information.
Select a legislator and save their name and email address.
Check your email for our letter template to copy / paste into your email platform.
Note: To maintain the letter formatting (paragraph breaks etc.), it's best if you download and open the PDF document before copying the text (vs using quick preview).
Copy your legislators email into your email platform, and replace the greeting (Dear [Legislator]) with their name.
Add your name at the bottm (and any additional thoughts if you'd like) and send.
