Five Steps to Securing Schools
Here are 5 steps every school can take to enhance school security. By fostering a culture of safety, schools can identify and mitigate threats and create an environment conducive to learning and growth.
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Washington Revisited
This is the story of how just over 825,000 Washington citizens, of all political persuasions, forced the Washington Legislature to backpedal on its radical progressive agenda and took an axe to the political legacy of Jay Inslee.
School Choice Finally Gets A Win in Texas
Of the 21 Texas house Republicans who opposed school choice last year, only between six and ten will have a chance to return to the legislature.
Testimony to the Alaska Senate Labor & Commerce Committee
Armed school staff provides both a deterrent and the quickest means to stopping an attack once it starts. Armed school staff bridge the critical gap between the time the threat presents and the arrival of law enforcement, providing an immediate response that can and will save lives.
Five Minutes Either Way
A lot can happen in five minutes. Five minutes either way.
Responsible Gun Owners Day at the Range
Join Ryan Petty and the National Shooting Sports Foundation on June 11th 2022 for Responsible Gun Owners Day at the Range.
Oppose the ATF's Latest Attempt to Turn Law-abiding Gun Owners Into Felons
It didn't take long for the Biden administration to launch its latest attempt to rewrite the Second Amendment through executive action and Executive Branch regulation. It's time to stop this action.
A more perfect union
The United States is an exceptional nation founded on exceptional principles. Our founding was more than a simple political revolt, the Founders waged an ideological revolution—one that ushered in a new epoch—unparalleled in all of human history.
First Look At 2021 Federal School Safety Legislation
Unlike previous years, 2021 appears to be a year for targeted school safety legislation. Four school safety bills have started the process to become law.
Drinking in your underpants
The American ethos is misunderstood. By entirely focusing on the materialism of American society, many fail to capture the importance of liberty and a deeply rooted entrepreneurial spirit afforded by that God-given liberty.
Support for Stricter Gun Laws Drops
Public support for new gun restrictions has fallen, and fallen significantly. I explain why.
Lessons We Should Learn from Averted School Attacks
The latest report from the US Secret Service, Averting Targeted School Violence was released earlier this week. What sets this report apart from previous research done by the Secret Service is a look at attacks that were averted--before tragedy struck.
2nd Amendment
The Biden Gun Control Agenda on the Anniversary of Parkland
How can we make our communities and schools safer, prevent another Parkland or Sandy Hook? It's not Biden's gun control proposal. It's called Behavioral Threat Assessment. It's how the US Secret Service protects the President. The answer is literally standing in front of him.
Politics
The ATF's Proposed Rules For Stabilizing Pistol Braces
As of late December 2020, much has been written and said about a recent set of proposed rules for pistol braces by the ATF. Mrgunsngear has a comprehensive rundown on his YouTube channel "The Truth About The ATF Pistol Brace Proposal Letter" For those that have not heard
leadership
President Trump's List of Accomplishments
I was fortunate to work with President Trump on school safety. I saw first hand the personal interest he took in making schools safer and doing what was possible at the federal level to unify the federal effort. I am also fortunate to belong to a mailing list where the
School Safety
Protecting America’s Schools – A US Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence
It has been an honor to join the US Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) on a nation-wide tour (Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles & Miami) to release their latest report on targeted violence in our nation’s schools: Protecting America’s Schools – A US Secret Service Analysis
MSD Public Safety Commission
Supporting the Removal of Scott Israel
It is wrong to view these failures as isolated events because they were a series of interconnected failures, all pointing to a lack of leadership by Scott Israel. Bad policy, sporadic training, inadequate equipment.
Politics
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things In Broward
The Broward County School District can’t even provide a safe and healthy environment for students and teachers by fixing the leaking roofs or removing mold from our schools across the county. Contrast that with the Prosper Independent School District in Prosper Texas.
Gun Control
Targeted Violence -- The Dana Show
I joined Dana Loesch on The Dana Show (8/16/2019) to talk about what can be done to stop targeted violence & schools shootings. We discuss behavioral threat assessment, Red Flag laws and respecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Ryan Petty joins Dana Loesch on The Dana Show
Politics
Why gun owners should support Risk Protection Orders
A little over a week ago, the nation was rocked once again by the evil mass killings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, Ohio. After each mass tragedy, calls for gun control begin even before the causes are understood. This time has proved to be no different. In the wake
Broward County Schools
Sending our Teachers into Battle
UPDATE: As reported in the New York Post, a New York City teacher, Aida Sehic, who complained of horrific racial, sexual, and physical abuse from students has settled a lawsuit against the Department of Education, The Post has learned. Sehic and the DOE agreed to resolve the case this week
leadership
The Sins of a Superintendent
All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
School Safety
Another Failure by Broward Schools
UPDATE 2/13/2019: After several days of asking Sun Sentinel journalists to look into the details surrounding the rejection by the Broward County School District of proposed legislation that would have put a focus on school safety and security, the Sun Sentinel published their story. Failure by Broward County
Culture
Threat Assessment in Florida Schools: The US Secret Service Perspective
Now that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission’s initial report has been sent to the Florida Governor and to the leaders of the Florida House & Senate, I’d like to share a few of the recommendations that went into the report, recommendations that I was privileged to