Since the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the national conversation has ranged from tightening gun laws to whether or not the armed sheriff's deputy at the school broke protocol by staying outside as shots rang out inside.
That deputy's lawyer has since defended his actions, but we wanted to find out what protocols are in place in Idaho that make sure kids are safe.
The conversation has been had on the local level and has reached the national level with President Donald Trump's response at a White House gathering of the nation's governors.
"You know I really believe, you don't know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon," Trump said.
To the average person an active shooter situation in a school is in the back of their minds, if at all. For law enforcement officials, it's something they train for regularly.
"We anticipate the worst possible scenario to take place within a school and through our training we're able to respond to those," said Sgt. Kirk Rush with the Boise Police Department.
Officials train both physically, through frequent repetitive drills and scenario-based training, and mentally.
"There's a lot of different scenarios that we could be faced with on a daily basis and it's probably hard to train for all of those, but we're at least trained to handle the individual threats and adjust as needed," said Sgt. Craig Durrell with the Ada County Sheriff's Office.
A part of the mental preparation for Student Resource Officers, or SRO's, in particular is preparing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
"They're all prepared to sacrifice their life in the service of others," Durrell said. "They're here on duty, God forbid something happens, but if it does they're going to go in and they're going to deal with immediately."
"Is there any situation that can happen where waiting and hesitating is the right thing to do?" KTVB's Alex Livingston asked.
"With an active shooter scenario, waiting is never an option," said Durrell.
The reason the Ada County Sheriff's Office trains their SRO's to immediately address the threat is to reduce the amount of time the threat has to be active.
"If that means sacrificing our life so that kids can escape, even if were all by ourselves, and we have to go in, at the very least we're distracting the threat away from innocent citizens and bystanders," Durrell said.
"We're going to move directly towards that threat," said Rush. "We're not going to render aid, we're going to make sure we can eliminate whatever is causing those types of problems. Once that's done were going to go ahead and tend to the wounded and get them out of the school and if we can render aid right there that's going to be great too. We're going to do the best that we can in the situation with the resources we have available."
Rush says he knows there will be panic when parents make their way to the scene of a school shooting as they look for answers. Rush says it's important they follow certain protocol as well.
Rush says it's important that you make sure to listen to their commands, and to make sure your hands are visible and above your head so they can differentiate between a bystander and a potential threat.