Posted on 08/09/2012 1:43:05 AM PDT by SMGFan
DHS-funded video gives tips to survive a shooter. http://www.federalnewsradio.com/473/2966001/DHS-funded-video-gives-tips-to-su... 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.
In a case similar to what happened at Virginia Tech, and no firearms except for the killer, the best defense would have been for students to start throwing things at the killer (including their desks if possible) and rushing him. Easier said than done, since the normal reaction is to flee in situations like that. But in two situations the killer entered a classroom and shot ten or more people. Of course, just one person with a firearm could have prevented a lot of the slaughter. Good thing VT was a gun-free zone. Good for the killer that is.
Why “improvised”?
Recently GA had a regional referendum on an additional 1% sales tax (on everything) to pay for Atlanta Mass Transit (52% of the plunder) and some road improvements - no detailed descriptions of what would be done in many cases (48% of the loot). This would have taken $6- $8 BILLION dollars ftom the private sector and placed it in the government sector. Our CEO (fortune 500 company) was an avid cheerleader for this, urging employees to sign up to get the message out - vote for the tax. It went down in flames 2:1 against.
What went through his pointy head? Was it to suck up to the black democrat mayor of Atlanta who wanted desperately to get his corrupt hands on some of the stolen taxpayer pelf. Who knows. The government and the "business community" ie the big construction and real estate firms spent $8,000,000 in TV, radio, amd out of home advertising (all lies) to convince people to vote for this travesty, but at least in the Atlanta area people weren't stupid enough to vote for it (actually about 35% of them WERE that stupid but it lost anyway)
While there are armed guards,......
Worse than that, they are indoctrinated in political correctness, diversity training and the fact that they will be in “deep do-do” if they ever pull the trigger.
Why trust in them to actually protect (and save) your life. Carry your gun so that you will have the ability to pull that trigger while watching the “guards” do everything to prevent themselves from getting in trouble?
I work in a similar victim zone.
I do what I can. I have a home-made hat/coat rack standing next to my cubicle. It is about 6' long, and has a joint in the middle where it could be broken to two 3' pieces. Better than nothing. I also have tape and long, sharp scissors. No match for a shooter, unless said shooter is a lousy shot, but it's better than nothing.
It also doesn't lend itself to be thought of as a potential weapon (like a baseball bat or the like) in the workplace.
Thanks but I think we will just continue to CC everywhere as we do now.
If hes wearing body armor....
“Then go for the head if hes still standing”
You do practice once weekly, right?
2” grouping @ 10 yards, right?
“Double Tap” rings a bell, right?
Cover and concealment are your friends, right?
OK-you can go outside then.
Shoot
Survive
and after Trayvon . . . Slip Away . Live to fight another day.
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