This would be funny, if it weren’t so very sad–and dangerous.
A Department of Homeland Security document on how to respond when an active shooter is in your vicinity offers advice that you wouldn’t quite expect to listen to if you’d like to make it out alive, or to stop the shooter in his tracks.
Here’s Obama’s DHS advice:
- Run.
- Hide.
- Throw Things.
We’re not even kidding.
Only as a last resort does the DHS want you to fight back against the shooter, which to be fair could make sense in certain situations… like if you don’t happen to have a gun.
But when it does come time to engage a madman, you’re supposed to throw things at him? If you’re in a college setting, sitting at your desk, are you supposed to hit the gunman with your notebook? A pen? Perhaps a spitball will do the trick?
This isn’t a one-off suggestion, it is a prevailing theme amongst Democrats. A couple of years ago, in the middle of a debate which sprang up from the Gabby Giffords shooting, a Colorado Democrat did indeed suggest that rather than using a weapon for self-defense, one could use a ballpoint pen.
Another suggested that Judo would work against a gunman.
Christ, if we’re not going to allow people to defend themselves with a gun and make them shooting ducks in these gun free zones, at least have the decency to allow them to carry something. Anything. Even a butter knife would help. Oh wait … Here’s a story on a shooting at a Sikh temple in 2012:
“The dead included temple President Satwant Singh Kaleka, who was shot as he tried to fend off the shooter with a butter knife.”
Just more proof that guns don’t kill people, gun control kills people.
Comment: What would be the best way to counter an active shooter in your area?
I never run or hide…but I do throw things….little lead projectiles……PERIOD…..KTN…..
The disgusting COWARDICE by these effete anti American defeatists is beyond revolting it is bordering on treasonous. Even if they do away with the constitution and outlaw guns I will still have my inherent God given right to protect myself and my family, and will do so with LETHAL force when necessary. I will ALWAYS have some type of LETHAL weapon available at ALL times and will not hesitate to return deadly force with deadly force.
For myself, one well place .45 slug ends the discussion! (and 2 or 3 more for good measure!)
the only thing I would be throwing at him would be 12 rounds in my gun.
As Omama sits comfortably with his family and 15 armed security guards.
I’d run alright. Run right to my shotgun. Then his story would be the same as mine.
easy to saay for a man with armed federal bodyguards with fully automatic weapons.
Shoot back
I’ll consider this advice when Obama disarms his security detail and ceases to travel with them.
Exactly – If they really believe this is a viable resolution then when is the CIA, Secret Service, Obama’s bodyguards, his daughters bodyguards and etc. going to put away their weapons and resort to throwing rocks and books if they are approached or come in contact with an insane person threatening to use a weapon.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/oregon-shooting-heroic-veteran-chris-mintz-was-shot-7-times-n437291 vet who fought with shooter lives!
An armed intruder intent on doing what he came to do is not going to let you get close enough to fight them as the one man found out that charged the terrorist doing the killing at the college. Shoot him 5 times before he got to him. He died as a hero for at least trying. You tick them off by throwing things and they will shoot you quicker. If you hide and he finds you you die. This administration is lame in their thinking and wish they would be the one’s that test the principles they are giving to the public with a real bad guy and see if their instruction actually looks as they think it does. Let all of government and even the president give up their security details and see just how long they actually survive a terrorist and I mean a real terrorist, not a plant to try and prove a point. Then, being faced with their actual demise say I’m sorry I was wrong. To be educated is not the time to play the part of a fool. These people are serious or they would not be doing what they are doing, period. Idiots, plan and simple…
James – the man that charged the shooter was shot 5x, but not critically – He was able to subdue the shooter before collasping and gun fie was exchanged with the police and the shooter was killed. Chris Mintz (the HERO) as well other victims were transported to hospitals in the nearby towns/cities where he underwent surgery and is doing well – sad for him, where one of the bullets lodged, they say he may have to learn to walk again – but he is doing well and still believes in the right to bear arms and in safeguarding our 2nd amendment rights – SIMILAR to most people in the area. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/umpqua-community-college-shooting-in-oregon-heroes-and-survivors/
FYI – The man who charged the shooter and got shot 5x did not die – he was transported to the hospital , under went surgery and is doing well. He still even believes in the Second Amendment, ‘right to bear arms.’ ;-)
People keep bartering about talk of gun control like they are spacing that it is part of the Constitution, unchangeable, the right to bear arms. It is not good citizens using guns wrongly, it is criminals who will not follow any laws you make. Gun rights protect citizens. We HAVE gun laws, the Constitution of the United States of America. You do not let terrorists disarm you, you step up against them.