Missy Doods is a math teacher who survived the 2005 Red Lake shooting. She is also a school safety advocate trying her best to help prevent continuous violent actions in schools. The Red Lake shooting left 10 people dead, including the shooter. Doods teamed up with Jillian Peterson and James Densley, researchers in Minneapolis-St. Paul, who compiled the most comprehensive database of mass shooters to date to prevent school violence. Vice has the details:
Peterson and Densley found that 95% of mass shooters in schools are suicidal. They believe this finding should reorient the way we approach violence prevention in schools. “If a student says, ‘I’m going to kill everyone tomorrow,’ it’s an automatic police response: expel, suspend... a big, punitive response,” said Densley. “If that same student said, ‘I’m going to kill myself tomorrow,’ we would respond totally differently.”