With the recent attack happening in Las Vegas it is important that you are reminded of the three-part strategy Run-Hide-Fight. Each step in this strategy can enhance your chances of survival when near an armed shooter.
Run
If you can run out of the building safely, without hurting yourself and avoid the armed shooter then run. When running the best places to avoid are parking-lots, areas out in the open, and hallways where the gunman might walk through. It is important to remember that even though running seems the easiest it is not always the safest. Running from the shooter can turn messy in seconds especially if you are in a large group. Moreover, always have a secure plan before you execute it.
Hide
When an armed gunman is near you hiding may seem like a stupid idea. However, it is not stupid and you are not just a sitting duck waiting to be shot. Although hiding may seem challenging it is just as life-saving and effective as running. When finding a place to hide, chose a place that is disconnected from the main hallways. Once you find the room lock the door and barricade it with chairs, desk, tools. As soon as the door is fully
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Fighting should only be an option if you fully have confidence in yourself to take down the gunman. You should search for heavy objects, such as fire extinguishers to entirely disable the gunman. Once you unarm the gunman immediately call the cops, travel to a safe area, and wait till you are rescued. The fightback option is not for everyone only certain people have that strive in them. For example, recently Angela McQueen an Illinois school teacher at Mattoon High School, took down a high school student with a gun. To her colleagues McQueen is known as “timid and quiet”, but when she saw the student gunman she immediately took action. That just goes to show that anyone is capable of saving lives when the time comes even if they are not the
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As if she wasn’t aware that she was in great danger. Then she began helping the wounded victims. She wasn’t afraid to get blood on her hands at all. Even the really gross wounds didn’t seem to bother her. Rat Kiley explains, “In times of action her face took on a sudden new composure, almost serene, the fuzzy blue eyes narrowing into a tight, intelligent focus.
States that have stand-your ground laws remove a common law requirement to retreat if a person is able to do so before using reasonable force outside of one’s home (Randall and DeBoer). This allows individuals in states with these laws to use force in self-defense when there is a reasonable belief of a threat (Randall and DeBoer). Under certain circumstances, such as a threat of imminent serious bodily harm or death, deadly force is considered reasonable under stand your ground laws (Randall and DeBoer). In Florida the stand-your ground law states “a person has the right to stand his or her ground if he or she (1) reasonably believes it is necessary to d...
In the last ten years there have been eighteen school shootings in the United States. Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, and Universities are all included. From these eighteen shootings there were one hundred and one students and faculty members killed, the majority being students. In the average classroom, there is at least fifteen students to one teacher. One adult is tasked with insuring the safety of fifteen to thirty students. How are teachers expected to accomplish this in the event of a shooting? There are safety codes and drills practiced such as code red, code blue, and evacuation drills that can help keep students safe. In the event of a code red students are to gather in the corner of the room farthest from the door; teachers turn off the lights and lock the door. Some teachers do what they can and barricade the classroom door with desks or filing cabinets… but hiding in a dark room isn 't enough. A code red is called out when an intruder is in the building. The shooter would hear the code red being announced and know the students are hiding, especially if the shooter is a member of the school, then they know exactly what the procedure is. A barricaded door might deter a shooter, but they will most likely move on to the next class-- or they decide that the barricade isn’t going to stop them. In the high school I attend the vast majority of classroom doors are mostly glass; in theory a school shooter can shoot right through without even having to enter the classroom. The best way to protect students is to have a more effective defense against threats.
American society is not more violent because there is no legal duty to retreat from an assailant because it will help none criminals from being killed because in the case people v. La Voie the defendant was peacefully driving home when 4 other men in a car started to come after him the defendant pulled his car to the side of the road while the other 4 men followed. The defendant got out with his gun and the other 4 men said they were going to kill the defendant. There forth, the defendant felt scared and for his life so shot on of the men coming after him and he died. The court ruled that if your life feels threatened then you have the right to do whatever it takes to defend yourself "when a person has reasonable grounds for believing, and does in fact actually believe, that danger of his being killed, or of receiving great bodily harm it
This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
Concealed carry can help minimize this, because of the requirements that must be followed, and the training that must be completed. Little do people realize, that more than 80% of these mass shootings which are taking place, involved illegally obtained weapons (msnbc). Which means that the shooter does not have any training, and they are planning to cause harm with them.
Timothy Wheeler, talks about how guns can save lives in his essay “There’s A Reason They Choose Schools”. Wheeler writes that shooters choose schools because of the rules that are placed on campuses. Wheeler’s writes, “[t]he only solution is a prepared and brave defender with the proper lifesaving tool- and gun” (Wheeler, 657). But if everyone has a gun and a shooter comes into a college campus everyone will have a gun out. This means that when the police show up they will not know
Ways of combating this issue effectively will be by implementing policies and procedures such as buddy systems and prevention programs that are likely to be effective. Preventing workplace violence such as active shooter incidents can be a challenge because for the most part these incidents are unpredictable, which is why it is so important to reduce the risk by planning ahead by addressing threats and other disruptive behavior at an early stage which will prepare employers and employees to act swiftly during these type of incidents. The effects can damage the sense of security in the workplace as well as the trust of that community. With that being said, when an active shooter incident takes place, everyone in that workplace becomes involved and everyone should be involved in the efforts to prevent these incidents from happening.
If you are unable to defend yourself and the attacker has the upper hand then techniques taught are selected for their ability to stop the attack, disable the attacker, and allow for safely escaping the encounter. Every officer should not panic when in this situation because it makes it easier for the
“Their best defense against injury is to put no defense and give them what they want” (Kates). Critics may argue that concealed handguns are not an effective form of self defense. To the contrary, robbery and assault victims who used a gun were less likely to be attacked or suffer injury, “Neither a martial art skills nor chemical sprays provide a real option for victims faced by attackers who are stronger or armed” (Kates). People feel safer when they carry a concealed weapon because they feel that criminals will avoid attacking them. Citizens want to conceal carry a handgun because every day there are dangerous individuals who prey on the weak. In addition to that, concealed handguns are an effective non-lethal form of self defense a majority of the time. Gary Kleck from the Federal Bureau of Investigation “estimated that, 2 million to 2.5 million victims annually use handguns to repel criminal attackers” (Kates). The surprise of being armed is the advantage for the victim, which the victim has the disadvantage of knowing the time and place of being attacked. Concealed carry actually provides protection to citizens that do not carry because the criminals are not sure who is able to defend themsel...
Current Texas law states that citizens are not legally liable to using deadly force against an intruder in a place they have a reasonable right to be (i.e. home, vehicle, place of employment). (Texas Penal Code 9.31, 2007) This law only applies if the citizen is not committing a crime themselves, they did not provoke the attacker and they had reason to believe they were in danger of becoming a crime victim. (Texas Penal Code 9.31, 2007)
The only way to prepare own self in the use of a firearm in a stressful situation is with firearms training. This can be achieved by visiting your local gun range to enroll in a beginners course in the use of a handgun. These courses typically cover the following topics in the handgun training for beginners: The guidelines of firearm safety Types of handguns Getting the know the parts of a handgun. Disassembling and assembling a handgun Types of ammunition Loading and unloading a handgun Site-alignment of a firearm trigger-control firing Stance These beginners courses vary in length as it is completely dependent on the beginner's ability to grasp the technics being taught.
Guns are the same thing. It could be used as self-defense, but at the same time, if you use it wrong, it could be a tragedy. Some schools are making their school a gun-free zone. However, it is true that some people try to attack gun free zones because they know that no one has a gun to kill them.
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