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Just as LET was set to publish its August issue, which focuses heavily on several training topics including an active shooter training event held on a university campus in early June, the appalling and tragic news of the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., broke, changing the tone of several key features in the issue.
I was filing through the photo feature on Page 17 as I read about the gunman who opened fire on the packed theater's showgoers; an eerie coincidence, I thought. Since then, I've come to see it as less of a coincidence and more so evidence of the fact that active shooter incidents - or active threat, as I've heard some industry veterans prefer - are happening with a troubling frequency. To interdict a shooter before he's dolled up in his anti-hero wardrobe or marching under his long trench coat...