Joey Walker

In these times, a number of public special events use metal detectors to screen people as they are about to enter their venues.[restrict paid=true] These venues can be anything from sporting events, concerts, a number of municipal or federal properties, etc. For whatever reason, the leadership of those entities made a decision that it is

History and past Active Shooters/Assailants have repeatedly shown us they purposely selected the targets they will attack by what they saw as “soft targets.” [restrict paid=true]Shooters have watched, researched or deemed that a particular environment (work site, school, church, public place, etc.) where they feel no person or persons will immediately intervene to stop their

A woman you barely know from work suddenly runs into your office. She has a look of terror written all over her face and is [restrict paid=true]hysterically crying. As you try to come to grips why you are experiencing this, you then recall her attendance at work has lately been spotty. The woman tells you

In the 2017 and 2018 Active Shooting cases, shooters have used weapons that the media and others have defined as “weapons of war.” [restrict paid=true]These cases involve weapons with associated terms of bump stocks, high capacity magazines and automatic or semi-automatic weapons. While the current focus (of some) is on the weapon, remember two things:

During a recent social media interaction, one of the participants responding to my post alluded to Active shooters belonging to one particular ethnic persuasion. [restrict paid=true]I responded that the truth of the matter was that they come from “nearly” every walk of life, ethnicity, gender, age, across socio-economic backgrounds as well as those who are