First off: read this: Michael Yon on the Orlando Shooting
Secondly, be sure to maintain immediate action material to have available to you some of the useful supplies to have on hand if such an event happens around you. A weapon, and ammunition, of course, NOT just the one you may carry on a daily basis, but a spare, or more effective tool that may be inconvenient or impractical for daily, continuous carry, probably concealed. Even if you are effectively armed, you may want to be able to equip another unarmed but qualified bystander unwillingly turned participant- and a rifle, carbine or shotgun may well be the *larger if inconvenient* choice to make, or may well be a worthwhile addition as well.
If you don't have an effective first aid kit immediately available, get one and keep it handy. If you do have one, double up on what you've got, remembering that those supplies may be used not only by you but by others, skilled or previously skilled in treatment but without a jumpkit of their own. Your workplace may have a *routine injury* first aid kit that's insufficient for serious trauma care, but which you can keep in mind as you think about what it lacks, and add to your own personal supply.
There's more, of course. I've been busy stocking my personal vehicles with at least a day or two's worth of food and water, just on the possibility that I might not want to be moving anywhere while the shooting's still going on, or, if it's during the hours of darkness that such an event takes place, as in Orlando, I may want to wait until daylight to move out. With my pickup truck with camper, and wife's SUV that's not too hard to arrange; on my motorcycle and 4-wheel ATV, the choices need to be somewhat more compact.
As for your meeting with those political figures: One of the best things you can do, if they'll go along with it, is to re-establish your local or community Civil Defense effort. That was ended during the GW Bush administration with an Executive Order placing the former Office of Civil Defense with FEMA- and removing CD from local control and turning it into a federal bureaucracy instead. The CD organization's primary goal of protecting the local community and citizenry was relegated beneath the FEMA prime directive of ensuring federal continuity of government at all costs. Fine, let them build their congressional bunkers if that's their best idea, but let's us have our localized common defense as well...and under local control, thank you very much. After all, the US Constitution reminds us of: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State....
Many thanks.
Your article follows my line of thinking to a T -—There is only one thing to do in a situation like this — attack, attack, attack: