1. Practice what was mentored to me - and what I share with others.
I have been on two campuses where a school shooting occurred, in the last 12 months.
Plus, bomb threats.
2. I have been reading the reports from school shootings, such as Virgina Tech.
I had some reading and links, that I have lost , still these are chocked full of all sorts of serious, information, applicable to other settings, besides a shooting at a school.
3. Everyone's situation is going to be different.
-Political Flavor in regards to not only guns, also edged weapons and even defending one's self.
-Legal interpretations of "threat" and "defense".
-Restrictions imposed
i.e.
Most schools do not allow those students from K-12 to even carry a small pocket knife to school.
Where some/most colleges will allow a student to carry a pocket knife to school. [with some restrictions on the knife that is allowed on campus].
The same mindset and approach to staying safe applies to these persons, as it does if one were in the Airport, and shots fired.
None of "us" are going to have a gun, or knife, so the lessons we learn in lessons, and from reading reports of actual events - prepares us better with more tools in the tool box.
-Most colleges do not allow firearms on campus, and the definition of "campus" varies from location, to location, and the restrictions vary as well.
Concealed carry is allowed on some campuses, still, most do not.
i.e.
I can follow the legal law, and CCW , and leave in my vehicle my CCW , when I have to be in a Courthouse.
I have to leave pocket knives, nail clippers, nail files...etc., as well.
I cannot, if I choose to enter a Military base, have a firearm in my vehicle.
When I have had to be on a base, I often park my vehicle in the garage of a person, and we take the "sterile" vehicle they use, everyday, to go on base.
No gun stuff at all, not even spent brass in, on, or around that vehicle.
The bases I am familiar with, really go over a vehicle with a fine tooth comb, and the trained dawgs are sniffing and checking out the vehicle as well.
Again, the lessons learned, and the studies of what really happened, what went wrong, what went correct, who died, who survived, , are extremely important.
At least to me they are, and not just in regard to a shooting at school.
Restrictions are a fact of life, not only for a First Grader, also for the CCW with hundreds of hours of training.
Steve