Resources for Active Shooter Preparedness and Emergency Action Plans

[JDR]

The victims in San Bernardino were not properly trained in Active Shooter preparedness and emergency action plans. This information needs to get out to the general public, and be acted upon as soon as possible. Please communicate these resources to the schools, businesses, and other organizations in your communities;

1. US Department of Homeland Security – Active Shooter Preparation: http://www.dhs.gov/active-shooter-preparedness

2. Active Shooter How to Respond Document: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/active_shooter_booklet.pdf

3. Active Shooter What Can You Do (IS-907) FEMA Independent Study Course; http://emilms.fema.gov/IS907/index.htm

4. Options for Consideration Active Shooter Training Video: http://www.dhs.gov/video/options-consideration-active-shooter-training-video

5. Run-Hide-Fight Video from City of Houston: http://www.readyhoustontx.gov/videos.html

6. ALICE Training: http://www.alicetraining.com/

 

[hso]

Please communicate these resources to the schools, businesses, and other organizations in your communities;

We need a little more "how" to make this actually a good activism effort for the 2A.

How do we get this out to those folks and how do we make it a 2A effort without just say "carry a gun"?

School board meetings, Facebook posting, comments to articles about a shooting with the links, ...???

There are modern forms of pamphleteering using social media and using public meetings that we can exploit if we know what they are.

We can also insist that our political representatives promote this information effectively. Using their email is a quick and easy way to push this towards them for their support.

 

[Sam1911]

Actually, the reports I've heard specifically said something like this:

Active shooter drills carried out EVERY MONTH at San Bernardino Inland Regional Center... staff tweeted 'drill started' as police raid began

http://www.naturalnews.com/052196_a...rnardino_shooting_Inland_Regional_Center.html

So, preparedness may be good, but there's only so much a group can be expected to do to defend themselves with improvised and found items.

 

[GEM]

The problem I have with most Active shooter programs is that they stress fighting with the fire extinguisher and furniture.

They never consider the civilian use of firearms.

It is my opinion that is a function:

1. Nonpermissive environment rules - so fight with what you got.
2. An attempt to say that you don't need guns and they would not be effective.

 

[hso]

They never consider the civilian use of firearms.

Most people don't carry and most people with carry permits don't even carry most of the so no group is taking time trying to address the one out of 10,000 chance someone has a gun on them compared to what you find in the office around you all the time.

 

[hso]

If your post went missing I ask you review the rules stickied at the top for everyone to see.

We don't engage in negativism and insist that the focus stay on bolstering, growing and distributing the original idea presented on how to strengthen the 2A. We should discuss whether the original idea was good, bad, effective, ineffective, etc. and how to change or improve it. Please try to keep that in mind.

Active shooter drills aren't exactly a 2A idea, but when people bring up the question of "What can we do" in response to the CO and CA attacks we can open with the literature and videos and training on Active Shooter situations and how it has evolved from run/hide to run/hide/fight! and how defending yourself and loved ones is a natural right instead of a granted privilege. No one would stop you from using a knife or lamp or pot of boiling water to protect your life and the life of your friends and colleagues from some attacker and no one should stop you from using even better tools carried responsibly and safely whether it is pepper spray, an Air Taser or a handgun. I know I'd feel better protected with pepper spray, Air Taser or a handgun than a flimsy office kitchen knife for cutting cake if me and my friends were barricaded in an office kitchen!

We can also point out that these events are spectacular but vanishingly rare in spite of the media and that we should be thinking about our ability to protect ourselves from the common crimes instead of the clickbait and dramatic. If we should be prepared to deal with the impossibly rare attack like this, shouldn't we be prepared to deal with violent crime we have some small but greater chance of having to deal with some time in our lives? Should we depend upon having to find tools to defend ourselves or should we go about our lives confident that we carry those tools and know how to use them in the remote chance we find ourselves in that situation?

 

[old lady new shooter]

there's only so much a group can be expected to do to defend themselves with improvised and found items.

Do we know whether their drills even included anything about defending themselves? Even with a fire extinguisher or whatever? Or did they just drill "shelter in place"?

 

[hso]

OLNS,

You misunderstand. Those are information resources not drills that have been carried out.

 

[old lady new shooter]

OLNS,

You misunderstand. Those are information resources not drills that have been carried out.

I was referencing Sam1911's quote in post #3:

Active shooter drills carried out EVERY MONTH at San Bernardino Inland Regional Center... staff tweeted 'drill started' as police raid began

 

[hso]

No office would drill the defense part because of the liability.

 

[old lady new shooter]

No office would drill the defense part because of the liability.

Even something like throwing anything handy at the terrorists?

 

[hso]

Even something like throwing anything handy at the terrorists?

How would you avoid damage or the remote chance of injury or just the mess and breakage? No, a company isn't going to take the step to run 150 people through a drill where they're throwing items in the office around. OTOH, they could conduct small group training of managers and supervisors where they have them play out a scenario training them to think of the office as full of improvised weapons of opportunity so they could explain that to their coworkers. BUT that's a discussion for S&T and not here.