How to prevent mass shootings, no gun control needed

A new report on preventing school shootings released by the Secret Service this week is getting a little attention from the media, but not nearly as much as the wall-to-wall coverage that we see when one of these attacks are carried out. On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, however we delve into the report (which can be found in its entirety here) with the help of my friend Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was murdered in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

In the years since his daughter’s life was stolen by the former student who returned to campus on Valentine’s Day three years ago, Petty has been an outspoken advocate for increased school safety while also standing up for our right to keep and bear arms. Petty’s not only studied the issue, but he’s gone through Florida’s Guardian program that puts armed school staff in place in public schools across the state and has worked with law enforcement on identifying and responding to threats before any violent acts are carried out.

As Petty tells me, the Secret Service report, which was put together by the agency’s National Threat Assessment Center, is proof that the answer to stopping these types of attacks doesn’t lie with more gun control laws. Instead, it’s a far simpler solution. As Secret Service Director James Murray writes in his introduction to the report:

Individuals contemplating violence often exhibit observable behaviors, and when community members report those behaviors, the next tragedy can be averted.

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