TYT: Fox Facepalm Of The Week: Hey Kids! Fight Active Shooters!

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Fox News has some incredibly questionable advice for kids caught in an active shooter situation. Sorry Fox, the correct answer was “run." Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"A Fox & Friends demonstration where children neutralized a gunman during an active shooter situation offered dubious advice to parents, as experts emphasize that confronting the gunman should be "a last resort."

The Fox News segment never explained that in an active shooter situation people should prioritize escaping and hiding over physically confronting the gunman -- only mentioning the first two actions in passing -- and instead emphasized engaging the gunman in a physical confrontation.

The December 8 broadcast of Fox & Friends featured two krav maga instructors and three children who demonstrated martial arts techniques that could be used to disarm an active shooter.

Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced the segment saying, "In an active shooter situation five seconds can mean the difference between life and death. But there are some things that you can do, and your children can do, to make a difference" before asking the instructor to "display for us and exemplify what would happen in an armed shooter situation." The instructor then used a stapler as a prop while his co-instructor demonstrated how to disarm a gunman from behind.”*

Read more here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/08/fox-news-tells-young-children-to-run-at-active/207321

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1. Why does this remind me of the movie "Napolen Dynamite"?

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2. Notice how Faux Snooze portrays a Black man as the attacker? Subtle racist message perhaps?

I'm sure a junior high kid is going to overpower a strong-looking adult armed with a gun.

Fantasy indeed.

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3. They'd rather kids run _into a gun; instead of curbing guns.