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| 2013-02-01 | |
| Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman? No problem -- just grab a pair of scissors and fight back! If you are fast enough you can block the bullets with them. That's some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security that was posted on the agency's Web site just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. "If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available," says the narrator in the video, which shows an office worker pulling scissors out of a desk drawer. Of course, firearms for self-defense are right out. They are so dangerous, you might shoot your eye out. HIDE AND COWER: A Homeland Security video shows these scenes as helpful advice to workers on what to do if a mass killer strikes their office -- grab any weapon at hand, and hide under a desk. Desks are impervious to bullets. They also function as a Cloak of Invisibility. The video, titled "Options for Consideration," also advises that people who get caught in an "active shooter" situation should run away, hide under a desk or take cover out of the line of fire.
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| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #8 Here is what I taught my son and his chums when they were in elementary and junior high. 1. Lock or bar the classroom door and get out of view. 2. Load up with anything in your hands: little stones, coins, sand, pencils, anything that can be thrown. 3. Lay down a barrage toward the head and eyes of the perp. Doing that will remove 80% of the sensory inputs of the perp. 4. If the perp is neutralized by the barrage, then rush him and gouge his eyes out. My son and his chums realized that they were the sheepdogs protecting their flock and they would not cower and die like cowards. Best chance for all to live. Scissors......tell me another joke. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-02-01 16:29 |
| #7 Hiding under the desk just means you are all waiting for the killer to find you one by one. Better to have a group charge the bastard enmasse if there was no way to sneak out. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-02-01 14:49 |
| #6 A person should only have firearms from hugging too much. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-02-01 12:26 |
| #5 Whatever happened to "appealing to the shooter's humanity"? /sarc |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-02-01 12:02 |
| #4 Scissors? Don't show up to a gun fight with scissors. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-02-01 10:46 |
| #3 Forget the rock, paper, scissors. Go with the Makarov. Training video. Skip the sight picture training, I doubt any of you need it. Klik on "Crapr" and go for it. Sorry about the absence of proper translation. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-01 06:40 |
| #2 I always wanted one of those Cloaks of Invisiblity myself. Where is Harry Potter when you need him?? |
| Posted by: Raider 2013-02-01 00:41 |
| #1 This was a Kiddie School - there are no sharp scissors kept widin easy or un-locked/un-secured + un-watched reach of the youngsters. The best one can find is either a kiddie pencil or a kid whose famous for deadly eagle-eye spitballs. School Admin, Supply, + certain Offices will have these, but MOST OR ALL OF THE KIDS, ETAL. WILL BE DEAD OR DYING BY THE TIME AN ADULT(S) FINDS THIS STUFF |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-01 00:17 |