Brian Van Brunt is
president of the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association, an organization
that teaches campuses and workplaces how to head off violence such as mass
shootings. He trains people to look for certain signs that a threat is serious
— such as specificity.
"First off, if
there's a fixation and focus on target. We also pay attention to action and
time imperative. We're very interested in understanding, is there a time or an
event that's occurring?" Van Brunt says.
Specifics like that
were absent in the Lenio case, but Van Brunt still thinks Hutson was right to
track the threat down. People may think there's some government entity like the
NSA or FBI scanning social media for domestic threats of this nature, but Van
Brunt says he hasn't seen any sign of that.
"It's much more
of a fishing net with multiple holes. We are lucky when we discover something,
in my opinion," he says.
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