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Originally Posted by tonyz
No contemplation of armed civilians in this DHS video.
The gun-free zones do appear to offer the bad guy much more time for the slaughter.
Continued - objective - professional analysis of potential armed citizen response to such situations should be interesting, educational and may save lives.
DHS-funded video gives tips to survive a shooter
Friday - 7/27/2012, 7:08am ET
Federal News Radio
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.
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/473/...vive-a-shooter |
Like any good production, creative liberty is at extreme. I like the sound track.
Funny how in their escape the first group of office workers goes up the stairwell. I suppose that move is to sit up there on the roof and wait for the helo evac.
And if they had been trained in the use of fire equipment, discharging the fire extinguisher as the door opened would have been a first good move, IMO, and
then whack the guy.
Pulling the fire alarm as you pass it in the hall, hitting the alarms in the elevators, using that rolling copy machine (the one with the wheels on it) as a rolling ram for cover to make escape or ram the guy, grabbing the firehose (usually in the stairwells) and turning on the water full blast in the direction of the shooter...all hypotheticals for this hypothetical.
As long as one is hiding, may as well be dialing 911, and then silence the phone, but they never mention that either.
ETA: Besides, this is only
one possible scenario addressed in the video.