Active shooter drills w/ students / actors...

[heavyhitter1k]

Fake Blood and Blanks: Schools Stage Active Shooter Drills - NBC News

Intrigued. Not sure what to think. I think people are unaware it could happen to them in their "safe haven" of a school / work / church. Wife works at a hospital and had a woman attacked at knife point within 20 feet of her desk. Kinda made her realize that even a hospital isn't 100% secure.

Thoughts?

 

[the1kidd03]

Unfortunately, a lot of people believe they are safe until after a traumatic experience proves to them the difference between "feeling safe" and actually being able to control your own safety. I have yet to work with a single violent crime victim who did not say "I thought I was safe" (or the same thing to some degree.) They always think about their safety AFTER the damage has been done, but that's too late.

 

[actaeon277]

Unfortunately, a lot of people believe they are safe until after a traumatic experience proves to them the difference between "feeling safe" and actually being able to control your own safety. I have yet to work with a single violent crime victim who did not say "I thought I was safe" (or the same thing to some degree.) They always think about their safety AFTER the damage has been done, but that's too late.

I always tell people, "look at the news with all the people that get hurt. They did not know that was going to happen. That's why I'm armed. I can LEARN from other's experiences. "

 

[bingley]

Wanting to feel safe is probably why a lot of people carry. (I'm not directing my comment at anyone in particular.) Unfortunately, as the saying goes, owning a gun makes you a gun fighter no more than owning a piano makes you a pianist. Just owning a gun doesn't make you safe, and I think a lot of gun owners have trouble facing this fact.

Recently people have been talking about this video where a number of college students got some training and then were tested in a force-on-force mass shooter scenario. Some people in this forum protested how unfair the video was. To me, that's an irrelevant question. You're not training to fight the average stupid mugger. You're training to fight against skilled, organized, and motivated people.

 

[maxmayhem]

thats why you carry anywhere its legal...carry at work if you can get away with it and not get fired...better to be carried by 14 than judged by seven or some crap like that....

 

[Tired of Lies]

I always tell people, "look at the news with all the people that get hurt. They did not know that was going to happen. That's why I'm armed. I can LEARN from other's experiences. "

I worked at the desk right next to a convicted murderer once. Sort of. He got off on a crazy plea after killing his professor wife and nearly killed his three little kids until they ran out the door to a neighbors. He then turned the knife on himself. People would recognize him and say....do you know who that is? Sometimes we'd answer in unison yes.

Company couldn't get rid of him after they found out...it fell under the disability laws and the psycho hospital gave him a lawyer to make sure his "rights" were not stepped on.

Funny part was he regularly used knives at work but none of us were allowed to cc even legally. Company policy.

You never know who or when that nut may snap.