We had an hour long “Active Shooter” presentation at work.
It was a similar level of uselessness.
Run! Hide! Fight!
Throw something at them.
Become a human speed bump.
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Ours was only a half hour.
They’re going to do a lockdown drill sometime in the near future; we’ve been told that we’re just expected to Hide and not Run or Confront.
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Too bad. I have it all planned out. I’ll Grab a stack of tablets off my desk and start flinging them at the would be assailant.
The iPads won’t do much, but some of the industrial grade tablets will leave a mark.
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Can’t you think of any more expensive and fragile company property to throw?
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For each of the 1200 minors killed by gun violence since Parkland a year ago, a story written by a teenaged journalist:
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What, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a tornado is a good guy with a tornado?
Seriously, there is something we can do to prevent this. Something proactive and not reactive. That something is not give every dangerous whackjob access to weapons, and stop normalizing mass shootings. This is not normal, nor should it ever be.
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Oh look, I wonder if they had their active shooter training…
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/15/breaking-active-shooter-report-in-aurora/
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Looks like the teens are rubbing off on the grownup Vogue writers!
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Shocking, surprise result that no one could possibly have predicted…
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No outside funding; interesting.
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Read the comment for lots of references to “thoughts and prayers.”
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Meanwhile, in a place far less sensible than New Zealand…
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The Second Amendment. It hurts so good!
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Thread:
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THIS
exactly
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On a related theme:
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Transcript available here:
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