To the editor:

Recently the Kansas Department of Health and Environment required its employees to participate in a half-day active shooter seminar conducted by the Kansas Highway Patrol. In summary, the officers discussed a strategy to minimize the loss of human life from such a tragedy as that which occurred in Hesston and is occurring at an increasing rate in America.  

All killers’ hearts are described by Jeremiah, 17:9: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” 

Jesus contrasts the two influences on the human heart in John 10:10: “The thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

The Highway Patrol’s strategy is based on the FBI slogan “Run, Hide and Fight.” I suggest “Pray, Run, Hide and Fight.” The Lord invites us in Psalm 50:15: “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”