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  1. Active shooter

    Active shooter or active killer names the perpetrator of a type of mass murder marked by rapidity, scale, randomness, and often suicide. The United States Department of Homeland Security defines an active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims."Most incidents occur at locations in which the killers find little impediment in pressing their attack. Locations are generally described as soft targets, that is, they carry limited security measures to protect members of the public. In most instances, shooters commit suicide, are shot by police, or surrender when confrontation with responding law enforcement becomes unavoidable, and active shooter events are often over in 10 to 15 minutes. According to New York City Police Department (NYPD) statistics, 46 percent of active shooter incidents are ended by the application of force by police or security, 40 percent end in the shooter's suicide, 14 percent of the time the shooter surrenders and, in less than 1 percent of cases, the violence ends with the attacker fleeing.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of active shooter in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of active shooter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of active shooter in a Sentence

  1. Victoria Vetter:

    We have fire drills in schools generally, every month. We have active shooter drills. But we do not in most schools have sudden cardiac arrest drills.

  2. Steve Naremore:

    When I was in school, there was no such thing as active shooter drills, but times have changed.

  3. Master Sgt. David Royer:

    I assessed the situation very quickly, looked around and took the only action possible that I felt I could take, i accelerated my truck as quickly as possible and struck the active shooter and pinned him underneath my truck.

  4. White House:

    This morning, the President had a call with James Shaw Jr. to commend his heroic actions and quick thinking last month at a Waffle House in Tennessee, mr. Shaw saved lives when he wrestled a gun from an active shooter who had open fired.

  5. The Colorado Springs Police department:

    The area is NOT secure. Media do not stage in the area, aVOID Centennial and Fillmore active shooter scene is not secure. Shopping Center shelter in place.


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