DHS-funded video gives tips on how to survive a mass-shooter

[LAGC]

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/473/2966001/DHS-funded-video-gives-tips-to-survive-a-shooter

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.

[TPaine7]

1. People with guns don't need improvised weapons. Just sayin'. n/t

[MrDiaz]

2. SO TRUE

ur reply pretty much summed it up... that's why I carry!!!

[AtheistCrusader]

3. I'm impressed.

They talked about this at all:
"As a last resort, working together or alone, act with aggression, use improvised weapons and fight."

One thing this is missing, 'be prepared to be considered a suspect as law enforcement cannot assume you are not the shooter, or not an accomplice, trying to escape the scene'.

[PavePusher]

4. This, in essence and in tactics, identical to the military "training" for such an incident.

The most lethal weapon mentioned for us is "throw hot coffee at them".

[shadowrider]

5. Dude, don't you know hot coffee melts oncoming bullets? n/t

[PavePusher]

6. Yeah, and the 5 glass doors that are our entry-ways...

are a magic shield made of unicorn farts. (The doors that don't allow any unobserveable movement between rooms....)

[Reasonable_Argument]

8. Problem is

Most workplaces where I live have a no gun policy even though CCW is legal. They will fire you on the spot for bringing a weapon onto the premises. Which is amusing since we get so many death threats the receptionist has to sit behind bullet proof glass.

[mvccd1000]

7. Good training - I hope everyone sees it.

I had a few thoughts as I watched.

1) Nicely produced video.
2) I haven't seen that many skinny people in an office in the US in decades.
3) In the "fight" section, the guy holding the fire extinguisher as a club would have done better to use it as intended; a face full of foam or powder would be more disabling than a glancing blow to the head (and you still have the bottle in hand to bean the guy after he's blinded).
4) One thing we learned in anti-terrorism training in Iraq was that bullets tend to hug the floor, while rocket/mortar/grenade shrapnel tends to travel higher. Hit the decks for a mortar attack, stay off of 'em for bullets.