To stop school shootings in the future, policymakers need to harden America’s “soft targets,” according a pair of security experts who shared their views Thursday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Chauncey Bowers, an associate consultant at Threat Suppression Inc., said schools need better training and better design.

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“People need to be trained on a consistent basis because you have constant turnover of people at the schools,” he said. “And there needs to be the ability to communicate with people at that school and parents efficiently and effectively during this kind of a crisis.”

Bowers was grappling with the latest mass school shooting. An expelled former student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, is now charged with killing 17 people on Tuesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. President Donald Trump vowed during an address to the nation today to better secure America’s schools.

A Mississippi bail bondsman noticed that a YouTube user with the same name as the shooter left a comment that he was “going to be a professional school shooter” and emailed a screen shot of it to the FBI, BuzzFeed reported Thursday.

But Bowers warned there is only so much the FBI and other law enforcement authorities can do with such information.

“Even when you’re proactive and you’re looking at the potential for violence for an individual, a lot of times, they will not cross a line that will allow the law enforcement agents to take particular action such as arrest or something of that nature,” he said.

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Bowers also urged school officials to re-examine the design of facilities.

“School security is a tough challenge, typically, because of the layout of the schools,” he said. “So it’s very important on that side of the equation, that one, school security is in place, and assess the school security at the various sites that they have.”

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Retired Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman, in a separate appearance Thursday on the radio show, said America should follow Israel’s lead on security. That country, he said, confronts terrorism by making it difficult for attackers to target public buildings.

“You harden the targets so that the gunman that you can’t control could not get in or could not be successful,” he said.

Mass public shooters are no different from Islamist terrorists except for ideology, Fuhrman said.

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“These are terrorist attacks,” he said. “They don’t have to be jihadists. They don’t have to have any religious cult connection or any connection with a foreign government, or even an association with a group. They’re terrorists.”

Fuhrman said gun control proposals offered by Democratic politicians will not stop the deranged.

“You’re not going to stop a mentally disturbed person from committing an act of homicide by getting rid of a gun,” he said.

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