When I was an innocent for a campus FOF, I was 'shot' just standing there with my hands up - because I moved. I didn't.
When I was an innocent for a campus FOF, I was 'shot' just standing there with my hands up - because I moved. I didn't.
We're the police and we're here to help?
When I was the bad guy, along with a first Gulf War vet, we fought the law in a nest of connected offices. Sometimes it didn't go well for them. If the shooter or shooters have their act together, it will be a horror show as compared to the guy who just shoots himself at first contact. Greg Ellifritz had a article by someone suggesting firing some shots into the ground on entry to see if the shooter will shoot him or herself. In his weekly knowledge dump.
When they built our new building, the classrooms all had glass walls so anyone could see in. It was to promote openness. I thought so much for hiding and turning off the lights. Another prof, at another school, asked me if they should do the same and I mentioned the shooter risk. He bought it but doubted he could get his school to not do that. Now, they did add locks to the doors to prevent entry if you get warning in time. The building also had all kinds of stone and brick pillars and alcove for wonderful cover positions on every floor. Clearing that in a deliberate pace would take a loooong time. Hopefully, there would be only one shooter, so you could go to his or her shots. If there was another waiting in the entry path - that would be hard.
I don't know if architects take this into account nowadays. With the large lecture rooms, a rampage shooter could get a position that would control the exits and be far enough away that the 'fight' mantra of throwing stuff or charging would be neigh on impossible unless the kids actual did a human wave and accepted massive causalities to the front of the charge.
The techniques in these kind of videos and the one I saw when we did training basically were for smaller classrooms. I did mention being armed and the President (from Australia) - guess what - had a shit fight about gun ownership. What else is new?
Just wait until Beslan becomes the model.