Let me start by saying after hundreds of hours of learning about Active Shooters and active shooter prevention, that what we have here is a Cottage industry for making money off of these shootings and not preventing them! 

 

On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

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The morning after the shooting successful business man Bret Martin said to himself, that's enough, I'm going to start a movement to end these school shootings!

 

He was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it any more. So he formed a concept, design, and project management company with an emphasis of eliminating school shootings once and for all. For the sake of our children, educators, faculty members, their familes and our law inforcement. 

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                          Active Shooter Prevention Company (ASPCO) was founded. 

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ASPCO was formed with a mission statement in mind that it was time to stop trying to figure these active shooters out and what makes them tick. It was time to stop trying to figure out why they do or did what they did and instead, start preventing them from having access to our children and the schools themselves.

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Locked doors weren't preventing it. Hiding behind desks wasn't preventing it, nor was the training all the faculties, childfen and teachers being trained. It's time to end the never ending firedrills! ​​

 

ASPCO was formed so that students, teachers and faculty could quit being part of classes that make hundreds of millions of dollars anually, piling on more and more defensive education, which in the end has accomplished next to nothing, other than fear and anxiety.

 

It's time for everyone to quit looking over their shoulder and most importantly it is time to quit hiding and take an offensive stance!

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Proaction is always better than reaction. 

 

​Bret had it up to his gills like so many other Americans with all of the talk and inaction as active shooters captivated the minds of tens of, if not hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans and other people around the world. 
 

"No more trying to keep guns from entering certain peoples hands Bret said, it was time to eliminate their ability to access the school grounds in the 1st place, game over, end of story!"

 

ASPCO's mission is simple, it's to put an immediate end to school shootings on school grounds across America while simultaneously minimizing the emotional effects these shootings have on our children, their parents and legal guardians, family members, teachers and police. 
 

     "Formed a union, for the sake of our children, educators, and faculty"
 

Regardless of whether you are for or against changes in gun laws, the time has come to admit we may never end the debate surrounding school shooters and what makes them perform these unspeakable acts.
 

     "The Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" 
 

It's time to allow ASPCO's design, concept, and project management team to do what it does best and get the ball rolling so to seak a proactive plan to prevent active shooters / school shooters on school grounds!

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            The Company Behind America’s Scariest School Shooter Drills

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The ALICE Training Institute was an early proponent of having teachers and students confront gunmen. There’s little evidence its approach works.

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By Sylvia Varnham O’Regan 

Dec 13, 2019

​https://www.thetrace.org/2019/12/alice-active-shooter-training-school-safety/

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In January, a group of teachers knelt against a wall at Meadowlawn Elementary School in Indiana while police posing as armed gunmen shot plastic pellets into their backs, causing angry, red welts. Waiting outside, the teachers’ colleagues could hear screaming, the Indiana State Teachers’ Association said, before they were “brought into the room four at a time and the shooting process was repeated.”

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After the incident, a group of the teachers considered a lawsuit. The sheriff whose team led the exercise told news media his officers had stopped using airsoft guns in trainings after one of the participants complained.

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Active shooter training like this has become more popular over the last decade — as the number of school shootings has increased, so too has the desire to prepare teachers and students to face intruders with lethal intentions.

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Behind many of the drills is the ALICE Training Institute, the largest for-profit private provider of active shooting training in the United States. ALICE operates through a “train-the-trainer” model — anyone can get ALICE certification after two days of in-person training and online testing. That means its precise influence over a specific drill can be difficult to determine. (ALICE also routinely trains police, like those involved in the Meadowlawn drill, who then go into schools to oversee drills.) The company claims to have trained staff at more than 5,500 K-12 school districts and at 900 institutions of higher education, with more clients signing up each day. ALICE — an acronym for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, and evacuate — promotes the idea that a “proactive” response to a shooting will enable you to save your life. The company insists that simply locking down a classroom and waiting for help — a “passive” response — will increase your chances of dying.

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But little is known about the efficacy of the methods promulgated by ALICE and its like-minded competitors. As the school security industry has boomed, ALICE has influenced a lucrative cottage industry of individual trainers and smaller private companies now working with schools. The growing popularity of “proactive” training models has polarized school security experts, many of whom argue that that ALICE’s “counter” method, and scenarios that include mock shootings, go too far.

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Drills can also be traumatic for the children involved, and schools considering training options have the difficult task of weighing the need for protection from intruders against the risk of doing further harm. “There is no evidence that lockdown drills with kids learning to barricade or defend themselves enhances security,” said Dr. Nancy Rappaport, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. And the drills “may have unintended consequences of creating terror for students.”

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Today, the wider school security industry peddles everything from bullet-proof whiteboards to facial-recognition software to transparent backpacks. Worth some $2.7 billion, the industry largely traces back to a single, tragic event: the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. After each subsequent school shooting — notably Sandy Hook in 2012 and Parkland in 2018 — the demand for active shooter training grew, and lockdown drills became more common.

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Last year there were 116 incidents of gun violence at American schools — up from 54 the previous year, according to data collected by the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Part of the response to these tragedies has been a cultural shift in responsibility, said Zachary Levinsky, a Canadian academic who has researched drills. After Columbine, schools and law enforcement agencies were suddenly required to plan for the worst-case scenarios, creating a need to manage risk and blame. “Showing that you were trying to mitigate the disaster was the impetus I think for these lockdown drills, and sort of allowing entities like ALICE to crop up,” Levinsky said.

A high school student lies on the floor as law enforcement and first responders participate in an active shooter training in Maine. 

 

And at least 42 states now have laws requiring emergency drills in schools. Eight of them specify that these must be “active shooter drills.” Schools are rarely equipped to conduct this kind of training on their own, so they look to law enforcement agencies and private companies like ALICE for answers.

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Training is big business in the for-profit market, and ALICE options can be pricey. A 2018 contract for the Alisal Union School District in California showed a total cost of $32,100 over three years for services including online ALICE training for all employees and a two-day “train-the-trainer program” for district officials. Becoming a certified ALICE instructor, meanwhile, costs between $600 and $700.

The official term for this type of training is “options based,” referring to the many ways to respond to a shooting, as opposed to strictly locking down an area. In worst-case scenarios, ALICE advises students and teachers to consider “countering,” or confronting an intruder. ALICE also encourages students to throw objects at intruders to interrupt and distract them. “Some [teachers] tell students to use their books, binders, staplers,” said Corey Mosher, the principal of Athens Area High School in Pennsylvania, whose district adopted ALICE this year. “Others brought items such as golf balls.”

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Can that be right?

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​                     HOW MANY SCHOOL SHOOTING'S ARE THERE ANNUALLY IN THE UNITED STATES?

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In 2024, there were 330 school shootings in the United States, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. This number is the second-highest since 1966, with 2023 having the highest at 349 incidents. The definition of a school shooting in this context includes any instance where a gun is fired, brandished with intent, or a bullet hits school property, regardless of victim count or reason. 

 

 

 

However, based on current data, there have been several incidents in recent months. For example, in 2025, CNN reports there have been 18 school shootings in the United States by May 1st, according to a CNN analysis. The Washington Post reports on school shootings since Columbine

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