There are places we don’t visit, we stand at them, walk with them after you leave, and end up carrying what they ask of you back into the rest of the work, and you do not put it down.

This past stretch of the work brought me to many of these scenes of mass murder and exceptional violence, but these three all mean something different ot me. I do not write about every site visit, and I will not write about most of the work that follows from them. But the lesson from these three is too important to keep to myself, and the post we are publishing on aspppro.com today is the place that lesson belongs in full.

I stood at the gate of the United States Air Force Academy, which reminded me of the future, as at the time of this pic, the Space Force had just been established, and no one thought that was possible. The young leaders within that institution will inherit the prevention standard that many are trying to build, that many of us have built, and that many will not even try to adjust. The end result is the same as with anything else: “the most committed wins.”

I stood on the grounds of Columbine High School. Twenty-seven years on, and the lessons that should have changed everything are still not finished doing what they were supposed to do. That is not on the families, it is in the country.

I stood on the asphalt outside Club Q in Colorado Springs. Hate did what hate does. The work that followed was conducted at the level it needed to be, and that is “A” National Standard for Prevention.

I have written the full piece on aspppro.com, because the Active Shooter Prevention Project is the standard-bearer for the work this country still owes those families. If you want to understand why we will not stop, why the seminar still matters after twenty-seven years, and what the discipline of prevention actually requires of the people doing it, read the full post here.

The standard is the memorial, and that is the whole reason.

~ Chris

Three Places One Standard | Chris Grollnek Active Shooter Expert Notes

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