FBI holds summits on preventing mass school shootings

FBI leaders and local law enforcement officials are studying shootings in schools to piece together trends and come up with ways to prevent future violence, officials said.

The FBI today hosted a daylong seminar at its headquarters for dozens of officials to discuss common warning signs of shooters, information sharing among law enforcement and response plans by schools.

"We can't allow ourselves to become numb to it," Joshua Skule, the FBI's executive assistant director for intelligence, said in an interview.

"We just cannot think that this is an acceptable way to live our lives, and so however this topic stays at the forefront so that folks continue to talk about it...is critical to mitigating the threat."
"After the shooting, just trying to deal with my grief, I was just incensed that Alex was killed because this monster shot right through the glass and he never went into the classrooms," Schachter said in an interview of the suspect in that case, Nikolas Cruz. "I just didn't understand why the schools were so unsafe, and tried to figure out what I could to make them safe."