AST Digital Magazine October 2017 Digital-Oct | Page 59

Active Shooter: Hardcore Questions & Harder Answers
A couple embraces following a terrorist attack on December 2,
2015 perpetrated by husband and wife Syed Farook and Tashfeen
Malik in San Bernardino, CA which killed killed 14 people and
injured 21 others. (Image courtesy of Facebook and YouTube)
Guest OpEd by Stanley I. White, IACSP, ATO
On December 2, 2015, a two-person team
consisting of shooters Syed Farook and
Tashfeen Malik (both husband and wife)
conducted an armed assault on the In-
land Regional Center in San Bernardino,
CA.
Their attack killed 14 and injured 21 individuals.
These individuals were found to be self-radical-
ized Islamic extremists executing a terrorist at-
tack on the U.S. homeland.
However, their actions did not only confirm the
present dangers of Islamic terrorism at home, but
also brought the issue of active shooters back to
the forefront of security discussions nationwide.
(Armed with long guns and dressed in tactical gear, Syed
Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik entered an of-
fice holiday party at a San Bernardino conference center on
Wednesday morning and opened fire. They killed 14 people
and wounded 17 others. Then they fled. Hours later, they
both died in a gunfight with police on the streets of San Ber-
nardino. Courtesy of Mashable News and YouTube. Posted
on Dec 3, 2015)
Whether it be a disgruntled worker(s), a men-
tally unstable individual or a domestic/foreign
terrorist(s), an active shooter can be found just
about anywhere; a movie theatre, a school, a
clinic, a church, a music concert etc., thus driving
home the need for a personal plan of action that
starts with the individual.
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