Posted on 02/14/2023 5:03:34 PM PST by Saije
The terror induced by an alert to “Run, Hide, Fight” is not unique to Michigan State, where a gunman fatally shot three people as students barricaded doors and raced across campus in search of safety. The strategy, which follows best practices developed by the Department of Homeland Security, is familiar to most students in the lockdown generation.
When a shooter is nearby, it holds, people should fight only as a last resort and only if confronted by a shooter.
But when it’s deployed, the results can be traumatic.
After a shooting last fall at the University of Virginia, a campus alert to “RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.” sent students scurrying inside laboratory closets and darkened dorm rooms. Many were veterans of lockdown drills from their elementary school days.
Still, actually hiding for hours was terrifying, said Shannon Lake, a third-year student from Crozet, Virginia, who spent 12 hours sheltering, much of it in a darkened, barricaded storage closet in the business school.
At colleges and elementary schools, “Run, Hide, Fight” goes by several different names. But the theme is the same: Get out of harm’s way, hide or barricade, and if an assailant finds you, take action. Backers say it gives individuals a proactive list of options that go beyond the traditional lockdown approach.
But critics say it’s misguided to teach students, especially younger ones, to fight back. Some school safety experts say it needlessly puts students in danger, and opponents push for stronger lockdown policies and better training for school safety officials.
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Yes. It’s is. Escape danger is best at young ages. It’s called fight flight response not the cower, hide then fight flight response.
I think you are right about fighting back not being an effective option. The problem for me is that having people hide may end up making them easier targets. I doubt decent hiding places have more than one way in or out.
Being told to hide or shelter in place doesn’t work for me.
How sad we have a generation of cowards.
Demolition Man coming true...without the shells.
I’m old and don’t have much to lose. In our church’s plan for an active threat, my task is to go straight at the threat. I’m no help if taken out too easily, but I’m going to get close enough to be a problem for anyone but a well trained gunman. I readily volunteered for this role and have the proper mindset. Whether Jesus approves of my attitude is another matter.
How about LEAVE THE AREA, if the campus is hosting a shooter, leave it quickly and carefully.
If we had more men willing to accept that role as you have, we wouldn’t have these kinds of problems.
The Left is trying to “engineer” those qualities out of men.
They really want you to just allow yourself to be murdered and not put up any fight. democrats really are the party of death.
What you have volunteered for is out of love for your brothers and sisters in Christ, even if it means losing your life in the pursuit of bringing order to chaos.
It is the mindset of a peacemaker.
Take cover, return fire.
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