... run and hide???
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/2...urity-safety-course-promotes/?intcmp=trending
I kind of thought "cower in fear while people around you get brutally murdered and then your own life is snuffed out" kind of went out the window on 9/11. Guess I was wrong.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/2...urity-safety-course-promotes/?intcmp=trending
The FEMA-administered computer course, entitled “IS-907- Active Shooter: What You Can Do,” is a 45-minute tutorial that provides guidance to all employees on how to recognize indicators of possible workplace violence and what to do should their office be invaded by gunmen and focuses around three main options; either evacuate, hide out, or in dire circumstances, take action.“We are now taught in an ‘Active Shooter’ course that if we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to ‘run away’ and ‘hide’" union leader Brandon Judd wrote on the website of 3,300-member union local. “If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become ‘aggressive’ and ‘throw things’ at him or her. We are then advised to ‘call law enforcement’ and wait for their arrival (presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered)."
OK, I can kind of see that being good advice for untrained/unarmed civilians. But that doesn't apply to people like the Border Patrol, right?
DHS officials maintain that the Active Shooter course was designed for all employees—civilian and law-enforcement officers-- and no one should rush into a situation where they, or others around them, could get hurt.
I kind of thought "cower in fear while people around you get brutally murdered and then your own life is snuffed out" kind of went out the window on 9/11. Guess I was wrong.