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How To Survive A Mass Shooting
If you can run, run. If you can't run, hide. If you have to, fight.
The recent mass shooting incidents at Connecticut elementary school, a Colorado movie theater, and a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, among other places, have made a once-unlikely question relevant: What should you do if someone comes into your workplace, school, or public venue and starts randomly shooting at people? The three-part answer, according to the Department of Homeland Security, is Run, Hide, Fight. If you can get out of the building or the vicinity of the shooter, do so. If you can't, hide. If you can't run or hide, as a last resort, resolve to incapacitate the shooter through any means necessary. The video above, produced last summer by the City of Houston (Tx.) Mayor's Office, was shared by the Limerick Township Police Department on…
John Q. Public
7:03 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013
Erin, on average only 50 people /year are hit by lightening. That you know multiple people is newsworthy indeed. I can't find a average for mass-shooting/year, but just looking at only the last 20 years, it must be a very small number. more ›