Preventing School Shootings: Insights from the FBI Threat Assessment Report

Week 11 Pivotal Document: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Report on the Threat Assessment of School Shooters Following this week’s readings on insights from averted mass shootings, the mass shooting of choice was the planned attack at Marjory Stoneman Doughlas High School in 2018. The planned shooting did not happen as the perpetrators plan was discovered and the school leaders and law authorities intervened on time. Such a plan is well reflected on the video “I Was Almost A School Shooter” where Aaron Stark narrates on how he planned for such a shooting due to the bullying he was experiencing both at school and at home (01-40-59). By 16 years he was living in the streets as the parents had already kicked him out which made him more aggressive and the urge to revenge lead him to plan shootings by first accessing a gun although they never happened which calls for proper t