"ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING"

Sept. 19, 2014 | “Borderlands 3.” Game Informer, 319, Nov. 2019.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING

9/30/07 Incident

Plate at IRC, written in ketchup: “I’m going to kill someone… soon. Then commit suicide.”

“I’m going to break all chaos records.” —VTech shooter. Notes to kill students, professors etc.

Cartoon: “It Could Never Happen Here, USA”

OPTIONS

Run (escape out of bldg, exit plan), hide, fight (improvise weapons, commit to actions)

SURVIVAL MINDSET

Take direct responsibility for your personal safety and security

• Awareness

  • Gain a basic understanding of situation

• Preparation

• Rehearsal

Exercise: When going in + out of a bldg, take a different route in + out to know multiple alternate exits.

“Door jamb on top of double doors: bolt that cinches it so door can’t be opened.”

• Consider jumping out of the 2nd floor—depends on bldg and height

• If you’re with someone who’s too scared, tell him/her it’ll be fine and get that person to go, but don’t waste time negotiating. It’ll be hard, but you have to go

• Call DPS before 911 bc they know our campus better and can send ambulances there

• Door jamb on top of double doors: bolt that cinches it so door can’t be opened.

• Figure out a way to hold the door closed without standing in front of it (so shooter won’t shoot thru door)

• Can also add belts together to increase length

• Separate within a room

  • If you pack together, easier for him/her to shoot all of you

• Silence your phone so he won’t find you

• Tip submit app

  • Send urgent msg to DPS without talking on phone

• If doors can’t lock, force a wall/barrier of furniture

  • As he tries to get around it, he’s not focusing on shooting so

  • FIGHT.

• Most general body mass shootings, shot victim will continue doing what they’re doing (fight, flight) until adrenaline runs out and their will to survive cuts out → “Not everything is over if you get shot.”

INCAPACITATION

• Hit, punch with your full body weight, not just your arm

• Go for the eyes, jam something in

• Fire extinguisher = chemicals that take out oxygen

  • spray his face so he can’t breathe

• Use a chair to point the weapon down, attack the weapon

  • chair = shield/weapon

• Never give up.

“Trained knife fighters = blade goes down their arm, [swish] motion”

DPS Cops

If 1st on scene, officers have to go in. In direction of the gunshots, even without backup

Trained knife fighters = blade goes down their arm, [swish] motion

For commentary seven years later, go here.