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January 2019 - Edition 31
Protecting America’s Kids, An
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Innovative New Approach
Pip and the Land of Blue Trees was
born out of frustration following the
Parkland High School attack, anoth-
er in the long line of mass casualty
shootings that have been increasing
in frequency, by Doug Haines, Own-
er and CEO of Haines Security Solu-
tions.
Furthermore, it will likely take years before
architects, school planners and security
officials come to an agreement and begin
to take action towards designing schools
to provide two evacuation routes from all
high occupancy spaces.[2]
Doug, being a widely respected subject
matter expert and educator in develop-
ing secure building design strategies,
and an impassioned speaker is frequent-
ly asked his thoughts with regard to the
Run-Hide-Fight doctrine security profes-
sionals have been teaching during lock-
down drills.
The challenges of ‘fixing’ the precursors
that lead to school violence or the root
causes behind a student making a deci-
sion to, and then taking action to carry a
gun into their school and open fire on
his or her classmates, is not going to be a Doug believes that we need to develop a
short discussion with a clear lineal strategy way in which to effectively protect peo-
to safeguard our nation’s children.[1]
ple while they are hiding .
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