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Run -> Hide -> Fight is what we were taught.
If you're already outside, sure, but otherwise that's bullshit, excuse my French. At least two people died because they followed the fire drill procedure during the Nashville shooting.
I suppose it’s a bit of a unique case; my high school’s classrooms did not have doors, and we were located pretty close to wooded areas. Assuming there is an active shooter inside the building, running was deemed to be the safest choice if available.
I sometimes forget our architecture was a little nonstandard.
Shooters keep shooting for as long as they want unless they are forcibly stopped. Number of deaths are directly correlated with the duration of their attack. The sooner the attack is stopped, the fewer total deaths and injuries.
"Run, Hide, Fight" increases any individual's own survival rate, but paradoxically, "Fight, Hide, Run" increases the survival rate of the entire group, even though it greatly increases risks to the "fighters".
Try it with a paintball, airsoft, or squirt-gun wielding attacker and unarmed defenders. Tell the group that as soon as they know where the attacker is, charge him. If you don't know where he is, hide until you figure it out. If there is no place to hide, run away. Count up the "dead", and it will almost always be substantially lower when the group blitzes the attacker vs. when they try to avoid being killed by the attacker.
no... doors? how did that work
“Nonstandard” would be an euphemism
Covenant. There was another one?
Ah my bad. I thought there had been another recently, but it was just a mass shooting, not a school shooting.