ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the problem of US gun policies continuing to make access to weapons easy, which requires schools to find means to prevent the increasing number of school shootings. This chapter introduces the proposed solution of having survivor-sensitive best practices for school safety drawn from the experiences and recommendations put forth by participants in this study. Explanation of the data analysis includes the interview process, the use of thematic analysis, in vivo coding, concept coding, emotion coding, and value coding, which provides the themes and categories that emerge. The chapter introduces the nature of the research being a qualitative phenomenology and the importance of the participants’ words and voices speaking for themselves and describes the use of elicitation. The chapter concludes with the author giving her positionality and demonstrating the trustworthiness of the study.
