MAXWELL, Texas — For two-and-a-half decades, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, also known as ALERRT , at Texas State University has been training hundreds of thousands of first responders.

Their aim is to provide the best research-based active shooter response training in the nation.

John Curnutt is the assistant executive director for the ALERRT Center.

"Ninety-eight percent of the training that we do as a program is mobile training teams going out across the country, cracking open some kit and training in people's backyards," Curnutt said.

Curnutt lists one of his biggest challenges when it comes to preparing people for confrontation.

"We just never get enough time, and we can't do frequent, intense training to get somebody conditioned for that," Curn

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