Tigers X - Number one Source to Talk Auburn Tigers Sports

The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: Tarheel on July 30, 2012, 05:22:31 PM

Title: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Tarheel on July 30, 2012, 05:22:31 PM: It's really interesting to see how the City Fathers of Houston are responding to educating the public on surviving an active shooter event.

Here's "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.":

http://youtu.be/5VcSwejU2D0

It's also interesting to see that no one in the video is armed with an actual gun (for protection and security) except the "shooter" and the Police who arrive well-after many have been shot. To me, the response for "being prepared for the worst" when "sometimes bad people do bad things" is to carry a heater...
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: dallaswareagle on July 31, 2012, 01:02:45 PM: I saw a statistic (donâ€™t remember where) that had this to point out:

Mass shootings where no one is armed and police arrest or shoot the shooter: Ave deaths is around 11

Mass shootings where someone or people in the crowd are armed: Avg deaths around 2
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: AU_Tiger_2000 on July 31, 2012, 03:33:07 PM: We had to take shooter training when I was working with the army. I remember if they guy has a gun you are supposed to crouch as ricochets tend to hug hte floor, if he has a grenade you should lie flat to avoid shrapnel. To me both sounded about as effective as duck and cover during nuclear attack.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: dallaswareagle on July 31, 2012, 04:54:37 PM: Quote from: AU_Tiger_2000 on July 31, 2012, 03:33:07 PM
We had to take shooter training when I was working with the army. I remember if they guy has a gun you are supposed to crouch as ricochets tend to hug hte floor, if he has a grenade you should lie flat to avoid shrapnel. To me both sounded about as effective as duck and cover during nuclear attack.

We were taught to get as low as you can and return fire-Look for the muzzle flash and return fire-Which in principal sounds good except when your shitting and pissing on yourself because someone or someoneâ€™s are shooting at you makes it a moot point. From a military standpoint-Best defense is a good offense-Be the first shooter. ( I know doesnâ€™t apply in the civilian world) but had someone been able to draw upon hearing the first rounds and was on the opposite side of the first shooting maybe things could have been different.

If someone is throwing grenades-well no matter how low you get it doesnâ€™t matter. Grenades get you three ways. 1. The initial explosion. 2. The concussion from the blast and then the shrapnel. On live fire exercises we would throw them into old monster truck tires-one blast would flip them 10â€™ feet in the air and about 20 feet in any one direction.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Tiger Wench on August 04, 2012, 12:21:34 AM: Houston doesn't have City Fathers. We have a lesbian Democrat (redundant) Mayor who, granted, is totally butch, but is technically a woman. She is awful.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: GH2001 on August 06, 2012, 04:05:29 PM: Quote from: Tiger Wench on August 04, 2012, 12:21:34 AM
Houston doesn't have City Fathers. We have a lesbian Democrat (redundant) Mayor who, granted, is totally butch, but is technically a woman. She is awful.

Serious Clark? Damn.

Quit being a bigot TW!! :sarcasm:
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Tiger Wench on August 07, 2012, 01:45:22 PM: Quote from: GH2001 on August 06, 2012, 04:05:29 PM
Serious Clark? Damn.

Quit being a bigot TW!! :sarcasm:

True dat. She is the first openly gay mayor of a major US city.

I don't give a good gorram who she sleeps with - altho her partner actually uses the title First Lady, which kind of strikes me as odd... - but I would despise her if she was a hetero with a First Man - she is as liberal as they come, and her continuation of the smoke and mirrors fiscal policies of her Democrat predecessor have fucked Houston on its now massively underfunded fire and police pension funds. She deliberately hid his serious fuckeration on the funds because he was running for Governor, and her payoff was being his hand picked successor for Mayor (he was term limited) - but what is so bad is that she was formerly the City Controller, and ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility...

SO GLAD I do not live in the jurisdiction of the City of Houston.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Saniflush on August 07, 2012, 02:01:40 PM: Best I could tell going from and to the airport last weekend, Houston could do with some Katrina type of events.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: GH2001 on August 07, 2012, 02:09:22 PM: Quote from: Saniflush on August 07, 2012, 02:01:40 PM
Best I could tell going from and to the airport last weekend, Houston could do with some Katrina type of events.

I thought the same thing flying in. That airport was horrid too.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Token on August 07, 2012, 02:10:34 PM: Quote from: Saniflush on August 07, 2012, 02:01:40 PM
Best I could tell going from and to the airport last weekend, Houston could do with some Katrina type of events.

That's because Katrina pushed all the trash TO Houston.
Title: Re: Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Post by: Tiger Wench on August 07, 2012, 02:24:32 PM: Quote from: Token on August 07, 2012, 02:10:34 PM
That's because Katrina pushed all the trash TO Houston.

WORD. Thank you, dear.

They talk about how NOLA will never be the same - HA. Come hang out in some formerly nice parts of Houston some time. We took in their trash and they didn't take it back. Now the gangs have satellite offices in NOLA and commute from Houston - no shit.

We moved out of Harris County to the country for a reason, y'all.