1. Wait for the police to rescue you.
2. Run away or hide.
3. Intervene (preferably with your firearm).
I support positive action, not fear or complacency.
I would hate to think a person would just sit in a chair and wait.
machismo and heroic ambition have perjerotive connotation, I really object.
How about desire to do the right thing, to be willing to risk sacrificing yourself to save others...
How about maybe they thought the shooter might just systematically kill everyone and they realized someone had to stop them.
Didn’t think to say that did they?
Soo...
How dare we interfere with their school shootings?!
Expletives deleted.
Except that if there isn't an intervener almost everyone is going to get shot.
We really are far far down the Orwellian language rabbit hole these days. By 'we' I mean 'they.'
By the author’s reasoning the passengers on UAL flight 93 should have stayed in their seats until the terror plot played out. Think how that would have changed the outcome.
Piss off, Frank.
Your precious officers in their Kevlar vest are minutes, if not tens of minutes away when these things happen - and all you can do is denigrate these kids with teenage "machismo or heroic ambition" likely played a role
That kind of thing takes thought but these kids were just reacting... reacting in a way that should make their families proud.
So Frank, STFU.
1. Light your hair on fire.
2. Run in circles.
3. Piss your pants.
4. Tell the gunman that you're gonna report him/her/it to the principal.
What a stupid topic for conversation.
Liberals always have a knee-jerk rejection of any conduct that even approaches virtuous.
Zimring is a pillow biter
Nobody knows how they themselves are going to re/act until the moment is on them.
Should Students Try To Thwart A Shooter?
As in all things, it depends on the relative intersectional superiority of the shooter and shootees.
Is the shooter a member of an oppressed class, such as People of color, gay questioning, or muslim? If so, they may be the real the victim, and should be afforded a clear shot.
Children shouldn’t be expected to “give their lives” because some idiotic assholes want to rule the word.
From those who say that a gun in the home makes one less safe...or that concealed carry leads to Wild West type shootouts...we should be past the point where we would uncritically accept the word of 'experts' on anything.
When seconds count, and 'help' is minutes away, you're all you got.
NO! Fight back. There is only one reason why the shooter’s there...to kill you. Might as well kill the POS.
Stupid question.
Without no other recourse, if they want to live, they had better do something because without it there is a near 100% chance it will not turn out well anyway.
How stupid are people really to even debate this subject?
Paging John Lott.
Active closure is currently taught by many self defense instructors. I tried it in a shoot house with sims. I died but so did the bad guy. Running the scenario without active closure, many times, resulted in 4-7 good guys dying. I am sold that it is the best last resort compared to cowering in a corner waiting to get shot.
Hat tip to these young men.
Where was their armed school employee?
Logic says attack and reduce the number killed.
To do so, an individual must have a dedication to others.
Progressives aren’t brought up that way.