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How do Columbus-area school district do active shooter training?

People rally May 28 at the Ohio Statehouse for a vigil for the 19 students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting by an 18-year-old gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

About 6{22377624ce51d186a25e6affb44d268990bf1c3186702884c333505e71f176b1} of active-shooter incidents at K-12 schools since 1970 have occurred in Ohio.

There have been 191 energetic shooter incidents at K-12 colleges given that 1970, according to the K-12 University Taking pictures Database at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Middle for Homeland Defense and Security, which files each individual time a gun is brandished or fired, or a bullet hits school property for any purpose, no matter of the variety of victims, time of day, or day of 7 days.

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The database labels incidents as “active shooter” when the shooter killed and/or wounded victims, possibly specific or random, in a school campus all through a ongoing episode of violence. Those people incidents include shootings in courtyards and parking heaps, on playgrounds and college buses and at university dances, as well as scenarios when anyone fired at a university from off college grounds.

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