Honestly, I don’t know if I could “Shelter In Place” or run the other way. I’ve never been around someone with a gun who was aiming to kill people.
I have to do this BS corporate training where I work, and for an active shooter, they say if you see an active shooter, run the other way and escape or hide if you can.
I have no idea how I would react. I might well run away or hide. And that is what they want you to do.
But in my heart, if I saw someone with a weapon walking past me towards an area where some of my co-workers were, not knowing what was coming their way, I just feel that I could not leave them to their fate.
I feel in my heart, I would have to pursue and interfere in some way, I couldn’t just save my skin and allow them to be delivered into the hands of a beast.
I guess a person never knows what they will do. But I know that were I to run the other way...I would suffer with that knowledge for the rest of my life, and I feel in my heart...there are indeed things worse than dying.
That just feels to me like it would be one of them.
I wouldn’t be doing it to be a hero. I would be doing it to defend people who, over 30+ years, I have come to respect and if not like as friends, love as family.
And the concept of having military personnel on a military base running and hiding from a single person with a gun...that is repugnant and I reject it out of hand.
I know, with our military having become what it is, in many respects (but obviously not all) a soft, more feminine this-is-a-job oriented kind of place, it isn’t what I should expect, but...I still do.
Call me naive, out of touch, unrealistic, a dinosaur, whatever, but...I still do.
This is why we MUST be ready for ANY type of incident.
We must decide WHAT we will (should) do BEFORE the possibility becomes an actuallity.
Now that you've decided, put some practice into it.