What is the Active Shooter Response Program (ASRP) and how does it serve society?

For schools, agencies, and places of work that adopt an Active Shooter Response Program the primary benefit will be the elimination of their organization's gun free policy. Decades of academic crime research demonstrates that criminals dominantly choose victims they believe to be unarmed. The ASRP is designed to make potential active shooters aware they will face armed resistance from the outset of an attack. It is a “deterrence with teeth” that empowers individuals, targeted by active shooters, to protect themselves and others during a criminal shooting incident where criminals or terrorists are intent on multiple fatalities. The ASRP charges the actual targets of active shootings to be responsible for their safety, and that of those who cannot defend themselves, instead of solely depending on the “wait and hope” plan of dialing police.

There are five Active Shooter Response Programs:

1. ASRP for Private and Public Schools (K-12)

2. ASRP for Colleges and Universities

3. ASRP for Hospitals and Medical Facilities

4. ASRP for Military Posts and Bases

5. ASRP for Businesses and Places of Work

Gun free regions of the world are complete humanitarian disasters. In the existing era of frequent active shootings and Islamic terrorism society must take greater responsibility for its own protection. The more Americans rely on government to provide for our “safety” the more of our freedoms government will take to provide it.