{"id":1873,"date":"2012-10-10T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2012-10-10T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:32:06","slug":"well-that-was-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just went through one of those &#8220;Corporate Safety&#8221; thingies. Basic stuff, like where to go if there&#8217;s a fire, what to do if there&#8217;s a tornado, how to use an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automated_external_defibrillator\">AED<\/a>, and what to do if there&#8217;s a guy gunning down your coworkers.<\/p>\n<p>They actually gave <em>effective<\/em> advice. I was shocked. In order of priority, you should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RUN AWAY<\/li>\n<li>Help others RUN AWAY<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t RUN AWAY, then hide. Preferably behind something bulletproof.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t RUN AWAY, and you can&#8217;t hide, call 911 and let them know where the shooter is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty standard, right? But then they said something I didn&#8217;t expect to hear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If your life is in imminent danger, ATTACK THE SHOOTER USING WHATEVER MEANS YOU HAVE AVAILABLE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Granted, we are disarmed by policy here, so &#8220;whatever means you have available&#8221; is probably strangling the guy with a mouse cord while my coworkers bludgeon him with their laptops and desk phones&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But recognizing that righteous violence can be an answer is a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just went through one of those &#8220;Corporate Safety&#8221; thingies. Basic stuff, like where to go if there&#8217;s a fire, what to do if there&#8217;s a tornado, how to use an AED, and what to do if there&#8217;s a guy gunning down your coworkers. They actually gave effective advice. I was shocked. In order of priority, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-preparedness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}