What to do if there is an active shooter. Sent to us by county HR

[upaloopa]

This video is intense (warning)

Here’s a primer on what you should do during an active shooting event. Our advice: Practice. Practice. Practice.
Run
Always know the exit or stairwell nearest to your office or desk. Pay extra attention to how to get out of the building during any office fire drills. The second you hear the first pop-pop-pop of gunfire, leave the building. Fast.
Take nothing — you’ll retrieve your purse or laptop later — and wait for no one, experts say.
“Run as fast as you can, warning people on your way out the door,” Jason Porter, a regional managing director for the Pinkerton risk and security company. “Don’t let other people slow you down.”
Hide
If you can’t get out of the building:
• Hide in a room with, preferably, a door that locks.
• Turn off lights.
• Push heavy objects against the door.
• Silence cellphones.
• Keep quiet.
If you can’t find a place to duck into or under, and you can hear gunshots, curl up into the “smallest possible target,” Frank Scafidi, an FBI agent for 20 years. “Firing is generally done from the hip. If someone has an automatic weapon and is sweeping back and forth, it’s better to be as low to the ground as you can be.”
Fight
If all else fails, fight for your life. Grab anything you can hurl at the attacker — a chair, fire extinguisher, stapler, even a cellphone — and wait for the moment he or she hesitates to, say, reload. The moment the attacker pauses, you attack.
“This isn’t a schoolyard fight; it’s someone coming to kill you,” says Porter. “You need to commit to fighting to the finish.” The Paris train attack heroes rushed the gunman in a group and didn’t stop until they had subdued him. One of them, Anthony Sadler, who is a college student from California, told NBC that “we just did whatever we could to disarm him.”

[Renew Deal]

1. This is the cost of gun rights

It's sad that this is necessary

[TeddyR]

4. That's a ridiculous statement

France has very strict gun laws and that didn't prevent the recent attacks in Paris. If a terrorist wants a gun they can get one.

[Renew Deal]

6. You can't prevent them all

But you can make them more difficult. Here we welcome terrorists to get guns.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Yeah, France doesn't have mass shootings in schools, malls, theaters, you name it

on a regular basis like we do here in GunHumperstan.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Because France has more shootings

In a year than days of the year... Oh wait, that is us

[gratuitous]

10. Yep, we'd rather die in a hail of bullets than regulate firearms

It doesn't make much sense to me, but that's the way our country runs.

[951-Riverside]

13. Thank You Renew Deal, this is something that gun humpers will continue to turn a blind eye to

[Eleanors38]

17. Actually, no one is turning a blind eye to. In fact some of the recommendations may be wrong...

Some SD experts warn Against massing in one room with the lights out, as the attacker probably knows the building (and some of the "lock down" procedures) and where people will hide. The recommendation to Fight is long overdue, but a good one.

I have one idea to offer: Toss a couple of ringing or otherwise noisy cell phones into an empty room, so the murderer is lured into that room, creating delay.

[MrScorpio]

18. Bingo!

[TeddyR]

2. Similar to what the DC chief of police recommended

ISIS, and Al Qaeda before them, have changed the rules of engagement. They aren't coming to take hostages to make a political point or bargain for the release of detainees, but are coming to cause as much bloodshed and death as possible.

[jeff47]

3. Minor tweak

curl up into the “smallest possible target,” Frank Scafidi, an FBI agent for 20 years. “Firing is generally done from the hip. If someone has an automatic weapon and is sweeping back and forth, it’s better to be as low to the ground as you can be.”

Almost.

Aerodynamics cause bullets to spend a little more time traveling just above the floor. So the recommendation in the "active shooter" training we had to take in a DoD setting was to curl into a ball, with your feet on the floor and the rest of you a little above the floor.

As opposed to a situation where you're expecting explosives, in which case you want to lay on the floor, with your head away from where you expect the bomb to go off in order to minimize shrapnel hitting you.

Now, for chemical or biological attacks......

(There was a lot of training for scenarios one would rather not be in)

[arcane1]

5. We received the same video a month ago, along with a certification test.

We have to take these yearly certifications for all kinds of things, usually related to the business. This is the first time we have ever had to pass a test on how to avoid a mass-killer.

[ck4829]

7. If it's such a concern (And I'm not dismissing that btw), then write a "If I'm killed by a random

shooter" document and put it somewhere to opened and read upon your death.

These spree shooters leave 'manifestos' and expect them to be taken seriously after their act of mass murder. What if a victim did something similar but as the victim? That would probably take a lot of wind out of the shooter's bag.

* I wasn't killed by a person who was *just* mentally ill, I was killed by someone with an ideology and who was cheerled by the media and saw the actions of other mass shooters as good
* Don't write a Wikipedia page about the person who killed me
* (Whatever your views on guns are)
* Don't vote for Trump
* Or "I knew too much" (Black humor I know)

And whatever else you want to write.

[Tipperary]

8. We got the same training.

What a world.

[B2G]

12. I thought this idea was brilliant.

[Laffy Kat]

14. ? Explain please.

I'm dense.

[B2G]

15. Putting a belt over the hinge makes it unopenable

from the outside.

[Laffy Kat]

16. Oh. Thanks. eom

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Wow...would have never thought of that......

brilliant indeed.