Helpful safety information from the FBI

[Lemon Drop]

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/...-resources

As long as we remain a nation with epidemic level gun violence and leaders unwilling to solve the problem, may as well be prepared to defend yourself and stay alive in the increasingly likely event you become part of a mass shooting event involving weapons and ammo designed to shred your flesh and liquify your organs.

So here is the FBI's Active Shooter event resource guide. Not for law enforcement, for the civilians in the line of fire. Handy Run Fight Hide instruction video too!

(Notice they don't recommend carrying a gun around as a safety strategy. What they recommend is keeping your hands up when you exit so law enforcement doesn't shoot you. )

***disclosure: offer not valid for first people ambushed by shooter, small children, seniors, or disabled people unable to run fast.

[mattkime]

What a fucking shitty society we've created.

[Lux Interior]

It's a small price to pay to allow me almost anyone to get a gun.

[SDGuy]

I very much recall when they started implementing mandatory annual Active Shooter training at work - sometime around 2017, give or take a bit (until I retired just over a year and a half ago, I worked at a DoD laboratory).

Then, in late 2019 they started "hardening" the office spaces - every work area (think by Department) had its entrances locked off, so that only people who worked in that Department could enter (via their ID card being scanned & PIN entered at the door).

And this is on a secure military base - so it was pretty much mostly for the thought of an insider threat (i.e. a co-worker deciding to shoot up the place).

Somewhere, I have the training materials (including, yes, a quick-reference card and longer guidebook on what to do; from what I recall they just used the DHS's already-existing stuff; doing a quick search - looks like they still have them (and more added since!).

The one thing I remember from the annual training was what I thought was a dubious "correct" answer on what to do if hiding out:
If you're in your locked office that has a glass window (looking out onto a hallway), the "incorrect" choice was to move out of sight of the window, so that anyone outside in the hallway cannot see you. I don't remember what the "correct" answer was supposed to be - I always got that question wrong each year.


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[gabester]

mattkime wrote:
What a amoral violent society we've created.

FTFY, and I wholly agree. It's pathetic.