{"id":219,"date":"2011-07-28T23:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2011-07-28T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:51:18","slug":"will-we-be-honest-we-could-do-no-better-than-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/will-we-be-honest-we-could-do-no-better-than-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s be honest:  We would do no better than Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find the conversation of arm-chair quarter backing going on relative to how poorly Norway handled the bombing\/shooting event of July 22, 2011 instructive.  It exposes our own naivety.\u00a0 We probably agree that giving a person 90 minutes free-rein to shoot teenagers reflects poorly on planning and preparedness.\u00a0 I argue, we would have done no better in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a cynic that all of our &#8220;active shooter&#8221; efforts post Columbine would not serve us well.  Let&#8217;s not forget the Virginia Tech shooting eight years after Columbine showed we still had some problems.\u00a0\u00a0 Before we start pointing fingers and offering Norway solutions, lets take off our rose-colored glasses and honestly examine our efforts to prepare for such an event.<\/p>\n<p>If someone told me an agency had a plan and exercised it to deal with an active shooter on a remote island with a youth camp, I would be amazed. I think we all would be deafened if we could here the &#8220;what if&#8221; conversations taking place behind closed doors in this country as I type.<\/p>\n<p>Provide me an after action report of an exercise conducted on a remote island with a youth camp and an active shooter dated prior to July 22, 2011.\u00a0 I suspect in a year&#8217;s time, there will be all kinds of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the conversation of arm-chair quarter backing going on relative to how poorly Norway handled the bombing\/shooting event of July 22, 2011 instructive. It exposes our own naivety.\u00a0 We  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[8,38,70,78,97,112],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-active-shooter","tag-ems","tag-norway-shooting","tag-police","tag-terrorism","tag-youth-camp-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}