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9 Ways to Loosen the Grip of Fear After a Shooting or Trauma
By
Linda Mintle
Ordinary people, doing ordinary things, on an ordinary day, lost their lives in a supermarket due to a mass shooter. It’s hard to imagine that going to a store to buy your child’s birthday cake could end in your death. It did for one man. When the unthinkable happens, it frightens us all. Yet, we…
More Mass Shootings But Not More Answers
By
Linda Mintle
Three mass shootings in eight days. The latest marks the 251st mass shooting in 2019; more than the number of days in this year. A mass shooting is defined as an incident in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter. As violence increases, we are desperate for answers. Depending on who you…
What It Really Takes to Stop School Shootings
By
Linda Mintle
When I listen to any political person rail against guns as a fix for school shootings, I get upset. The focus in wrong and yet it persists and dominates headlines. This tells me there is a lack of real concern to address violence in our schools. Instead we get political correctness. Journalists, look at the statistics…
5 Stages of a Mass Shooting and How to Respond If You Are In the Area
By
Linda Mintle
With all the shootings in recent years, people are thinking of how they might respond to such an horrific event. Here is some help from law enforcement. Praying that none of you are ever in a position to have to use this information, but we should think about how to respond. Law enforcement has identified 5…
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