Posted on 07/27/2012 7:04:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
After last week's shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., the city of Houston has released a how-to video on surviving a shooter event. The video was created with funds from the Homeland Security Department.
"I can't imagine the horror and grief. If it is at all possible for any good to come out of it, perhaps it can be letting people know the options to consider if it happens again," said Mayor Annise Parker in a statement.
Entitled "Run, Hide, Fight," the video depicts a fictional shooting incident at an office building.
"It may feel like just another day at the office, but occasionally life feels more like an action movie than reality," says a narrator.
The City of Houston's website offers these tips:
•Run if a safe path is available. Always try and escape or evacuate even if others insist on staying. •Encourage others to leave with you but don't let the indecision of others slow down your own effort to escape. •Once you are out of the line of fire, try to prevent others from walking into the danger zone and call 9-1-1. •If you can't get out safely, find a place to hide. •When hiding, turn out lights, remember to lock doors and silence your ringer and vibration mode on your cell phone As a last resort, working together or alone, act with aggression, use improvised weapons and fight. Houston's Public Safety Office said it had started working on the video before the theater shooting, reports the ABC station in Houston.
Do they have it backwards?
Can’t outrun a bullet.
Why use “improvised weapons”?
I believe proper weapons are available in the United States?
Unless (of course) you’re in a cinema run by Cinemark.
I actually prefer my SIG-229 in 40.
How about “pull out your 9 and pop a cap in the SOB.”
It would make for a fairly short video lesson, I would think.
I thought that ‘run, hide ... fight (as a last resort)’ is what they were recently telling the Border Patrol to do.
They should have just used this film
H.M. Government Public Service Films
No. 42 How Not To Be Seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ
“use improvised weapons and fight.”
Or pull out your .380 which you brought in even though it said not to and punch two to the chest and two to the head. Then walk calmly to the exit.
Rule #1 of gunfighting: Have a gun.
Rules 2 through 10 : See rule #1
Luckily for me, I always have an “improvised” Thunder 9 HC with 17+1 Speer Gold Dot JHP on me, ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Amazing what you can come up with if you just pay attention to what’s lying around in the vicinity.
No Pooftahs?
That run....hide.... doesn’t sound much like the Land of the Free and the Brave
That run....hide.... doesn’t sound much like the Land of the Free and the Brave
That run....hide.... doesn’t sound much like the Land of the Free and the Brave
After the Virginia Tech shooting, training for teachers in NC included the watching of an “Active Shooter” video and then the discussion of the proper procedure should such an eventuality occur. The “plan” includes turning out your classroom lights, lining up against the wall (closest to the door), remaining quiet in the room and acting as if “there is no one home.”
I can’t tell you how comforting it was to know there were things I could do in case there was a “Columbine situation” going on in my school.
All are subject to much debate, but much debate is a good thing.
Worth repeating.
;-)
I hate having to watch that video. I always think when I see the part where the administrator is unlocking the box to get his emergency plan out that he ought to be getting out a 1911.
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