LogFAQs > #932215935

Dreaming_King posted...

I realize your whole point is that people should get training to deal with situations like this, but I think this is really one of those things where you don't know how you're going to react in the moment and it isn't fair to look at it with hindsight over the internet in safety and far from the action. Some people rush gunmen with their bare hands and other times trained security runs off as soon as they hear shots fired, it seems like a crap shoot.

The idea is that if you have enough training it takes over as your basic instinct and you just do it without realizing it. Also "trained security" is kind of a broad term, most security guards don't get a lot of training, hell most of them don't even know how to fire a gun.

That said, I don't think it is realistic to expect most civilians to get enough combat training where it would be even viable in a situation like this. The time and effort involved is just disproportionate to the probability the average person has of being in that kind of situation. The best thing to do is just train people to either (in order of preference):

1) Run away from the shooter to the nearest exit, using the mob mentality of "a shooter can't hit everyone who is running away".
2) Barricade yourself in a safe place.
3) Bum-rush the shooter and try to incapacitate them.

That is what most active-shooter training teaches and is pretty easy for a civilian to instinctively do. #3 is obviously a last resort as at that point you are pretty much out of other options.

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