I think the best tip here is to be aware of your surroundings. Not so much meaning you have to be paranoid at every moment, but simply being "aware" of ways to evacuate during any emergency is always smart. There's usually more than one way, is my point.
A few days ago on March 28, there was a brief shooting at some guy who killed his wife and went to hide in the parking lot of the high school next door to my middle school. It was dark af. Don't be like the loud obnoxious idiots who crave attention. Stay silent, calm, and hide wherever it's possible.
I feel like it's easy to say I'll do these steps to save myself, but if I was actually in a situation like this, I'd just completely freeze up and have a panic attack.
I participated in an active shooter simulation at an airsoft field once and it's definitely challenging to remember these steps even when you know it's just a simulation. They would rotate everyone out periodically so everyone would serve as unarmed targets and as the police squad at least once.
It's difficult to predict how someone will react in a life-threatening situation, but repetitive training is essential. With 13 years of martial arts experience, I've been attacked in the street by multiple attackers and in a shoot out in a club with bullets whizzing over my head and it's always scary. I've learned that overcoming the initial shock of being hit or finding yourself in a real fight is crucial. Training helps manage this shock. While videos can raise awareness, the advice to fight until the threat is neutralized can vary. I believe it's more effective to fight until the threat is distracted enough to disarm or escape, if you don't have the skills or force multipliers. The initial surprise can give you an advantage, but lacking the skills to subdue an attacker can quickly turn the situation against you. I've seen brown belts techniques all fall apart when we go from Kata (Form and Technique) training to actual sparing (full contact), all the pretty moves turn to wild throws. Most importantly, is don't freeze and as many stated here, don't panic or it least try to manage it.
Rule # 1, don't panic. Everyone should imagine surviving a situation from start to finish. Whether it's a car wreck, a shooting, freezing, drowning, whatever can be fatal. Be prepared.
Thank you. I’m in sixth grade and we have had 5 lockdowns in the past two months well since school started and people joke around about it but I am always on edge. Thank you for putting this together. I have been in this school since kindergarten and I have never had so much lockdowns in a year. Two active shooter ones and I didn’t know what to do but I was in my classroom. Now I will be outside more and need to stay prepared. Also considering I have found bullets and blades on the floor near school. Thank you.
@@biggmilo I why I try help the teacher and tell other kids to stop talking. You don’t know if a lockdown is real or not. It’s better to be prepared than to brush it off as “fake.”
This is amazingly on point video! Best advice compared to the video of school drills that are terrifyingly unsafe and all wrong. The only point I would add to this video is: It will now be known thar lights are turned off to pretend the room is empty. To hide. Now there will be a chance that a shooter could shoot the handle and try his way into a door. Cuz he'll know all classrooms are lights off to hide all the students. I mean, still turn them off just incase it works. But now it will be well known due to drills & vids. Last point. If U try to QUIETLY stack to block the door... do not stack vertically! Unless U have no choice. Try to "stack" horizontally where tables align all the way to the opposite wall across from door. So that the strength of the wall will now prevent the tables from being pushable/scootable! And do not ever stand in front of the door or doorway, with ur body incase the shooter tries to shoot through the door.
This video was made for college students. If you are in elementary school watching this, please do not think it is your job to fight off an active shooter. It is your job to try to hide and stay alive. That's it.
People who want to commit these kinds of acts already know that we ask the public to follow these steps. It is still a viable defense to an active killer scenario. RUN HIDE FIGHT disrupts the sick "plan" these killers have and denies them an easy body count. Think of it like this: RUN - removes you from the place where the shooter is at, this makes you less likely to be a victim. HIDE - this puts a barrier between you and the person who wants to harm you. Historically, the shooters do not take excessive amounts of time trying to force their way into a barricaded area. They are on the clock, they don't have a lot of time because we are coming and they know what will happen when we get there. FIGHT - yes this is scary and it means your life is in immediate danger. But it also lets you know you don't have to stand there and let someone hurt you. You have a right to resist, to fight back, to incapacitate someone who is trying to hurt or kill you. You are many against one, and you stand a better chance because of it. Use it! Knowing that RUN HIDE FIGHT is what we teach now has probably already prevented an active shooting. Active killers are cowards, who use extreme violence against people they hope can't or won't fight back. They want you to stand there and do nothing. They want you to be afraid and to feel helpless. They want a high body count before they kill themselves (or we do) because they want the infamy that goes along with the horror generated by the attack. Since it is not practical to arm everyone in the hopes of preventing an active shooter to begin with, the best thing we can do is teach survival skills. The more people who are prepared to deny an active killer an easy target by running, hiding or fighting is hopefully lessening the attractiveness of engaging in this kind of violence because it it making the risk to the shooter far greater than the reward they are seeking. However the best way to defend against an active killer situation is SEE SOMETHING - SAY SOMETHING. If you know of someone who is talking or writing about hurting people. If you see someone who is carrying a gun or other weapon. If you know a classmate is obsessed with things like guns, violence or past shootings. If you know someone who posts a video talking about how they want to kill people SAY SOMETHING. Call the police, tell a parent, tell a teacher or other person who can help. Never keep information like this a secret, because it could be the difference between saving lives or allowing others to be hurt or killed. The earlier we know about someone's plan to harm others, the more time we have to stop it.
"Regardless of where you are, always think about what actions you can take to lobby your lawmakers for better gun laws, mental health resources and stronger communities. Remember time is short!"
When there was a school lockdown my teacher said we must stay in the class room and hide and lock and barricade the door and my friend was in the bathroom and she lock the bathroom door and went in one of the stalls and went on top of the toilet so her feet would not show and she got a soup bottle and napkin and took it with her so if the shooter came she would get them. But thx for the video very help ful
INSTEAD OF DIALING 911 (at least on IOS): rapidly click the power off button 5 times, or, tell siri to call or manually dial "18". This could save you the precious seconds needed for your survival.
You should also inform people if necessary. If know any helpful information, like what the shooter looks like, where they are, or something like that, then call the police and tell them if possible. If you see something suspicious, let people know and try to spread the word to stay away from the person/area.
To think....this is "a part" of our children's curriculum. A custodians possibility. A teacher's probability. A principal's fears. A cop's sadness. A parent's nightmare. Our collective reality.
Even if you don't think it's gonna happen, try not to take a lot of things out of whatever you have because one of those things might be valuable and you might not have enough time to take it with you.
I remember being in my science class, like a regular day. Suddenly the PA turned on and the principal announced a lockdown and that it WASN'T a drill. I was horrified. The class next to us was screaming "WE'RE GONNA DIEEE!!" Then they announced that a kid (Estavan) reported that his friend told him he had a knife in his backpack. As soon as I heard it wasn't a gun I was calm and didn't really care. It was a regular day besides that.
Thank you, I'm in 6th grade and my friend told me that theres an increased amount of school shooting in middle school and high school. She even cried a little bit.
Maria hernandez I’m sorry but don’t listen to the teachers. My mom is a teacher I would not take cover in a class if I had the option to run. But if you can’t run obey the teacher.
I have 10 escape routes in my school I have a list of people who might be the shooters so I look out for them usually try to be nice to people so that they might spare me I know 10 rooms that are the safest and can be easily barricaded and practice running zig zags and un arming someone with my dad I also have most of my classes in a far corner of the building think I’m good
I remember I heard a story of a middle school going on lockdown because of an active shooter. Somehow, a class of 6th graders took down the shooter by hitting him with their bare fists, notebooks, pencils, and apparently a kid hit him in the groin with a broom.
A few days ago my school accidentally called a lockdown (not drill) and we were all scared just waiting there for about a minute, but it turns out somebody accidentally hurt themselves in the cafeteria and mistook it for a shooting.
Everyone if you have the option to run without danger don’t listen to teachers if that is the case. However if you can’t run safely listen to the teacher
I work at a university and I'm in a cubicle on the top floor of a very open-concept building. There are no offices or rooms that don't have windows- and almost all windows (in the entire building) are floor-to-ceiling. I keep wasp spray handy, the kind that has the straw, because it can stream several feet and temporarily blind someone looking to cause harm.
What I would do in this situation 1. Assess the area 2.get everyone calm and silent 3.(in classroom no teacher) grab a floor plan) 4.look for the nearest door in the plan or open the windows and jump out
So, I’m in the fifth grade and stuff and there’s this idiot named Santiago at my school. He said he’s going to shoot at my school April 1st 2018. I reported him and no one believes me. So I’m really scared and all. Then I watched this video and this calmed me down. Thx!
These tips will come in handy im in sixth grade and i know areas were i can run hide and fight ill thunk of these tips to save my life if something like this happens
They should honestly just show schools this video instead of telling them to don't do drugs for the billionth time which clearly doesn't work. Make it mandatory like fire drills.
Also don't just bring your phone. Bring something to clog a bullet wound if you got shot. If you don't have time then listen to the video and only bring your phone.
I made a plan in middle school but now I’m in high school so I have to make another one but in middle school I was always on the top floor and if there was every a school shooter i WOULD NOT go to the second floor doors because there’s a wide long hall way and it would make me a open target so I would go to the 1st floor beacuse the doors are right there when you open the doors to the stair way butt depending on what floor the shooter is on my plans would change
If your hiding in the caffiterea or kitchen class grab a knife, the police will not go into the building as seen in footage of shootings so u need to leave as quick and think were your going to go.
I don't know about using the fire extinguisher to "spray" the shooter. I think straight using it to chin-check the user would be more viable. Just my humble opinion.
My teacher told me that the chemicals in the fire extinguisher can at least temporarily blind attackers due to their acidity. The foam throws them off and blinds them so that you can neutralize them if need be.
Some people are isolated and have no one. Plus being psychotic. Most shooters hate everyone and seeing them but not themselves happy and that's why they shoot down schools. So don't be an asshole to anyone and that person might savor your life.
Those are the important questions to ask if we are going to improve society. There will be many answers found. It could be that some don't know how to handle pain in their life, it could be additional contributing factors like medications which have bad side effects. It might even be manipulation by other persons to achieve an unseen goal (psyop or false flag).
It is so fucked that i as a child now have to be worried that someone might take away my life because Washington can't make up their mind. Do something
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I wonder if the unedited version was "Run Hide Fight ... with harsh words, Wave your Gun Free Zone sign, Blow your whistle, Call 911 and then of course, Die". I prefer "Draw Shoot Live"
