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New York Post: ?If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,? says the narrator in the video, which shows an office worker pulling scissors out of a desk drawer.
DUCK AND CUTTER: A Homeland Security video shows these scenes as helpful advice to workers on what to do if a mass killer strikes their office ? grab any weapon at hand, and hide under a desk.
The video, titled ?Options for Consideration,? also advises that people who get caught in an ?active shooter? situation should run away, hide under a desk or take cover out of the line of fire. The nearly four-minute-long video opens with chilling scenes from the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, and the 2011 attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords. But the video quickly shifts to hokey footage of office workers scampering under desks, crouching in corners and racing into closets to hide from a rampaging gunman on the loose.
?To protect your hiding place, lock the door if you can. Block the door with heavy furniture,? recommends the male narrator, speaking in measured, authoritative tones.
Other survival strategies promoted in the video include hiding ?behind large items such as cabinets or desks. Remain quiet. Silence your cellphone or pager. Even the vibration setting can give away a hiding position.?
Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said he has a better option for consideration than a pair of scissors when confronting an armed mass murderer ? a legal firearm.
?That?s why I prefer a gun, and I usually do carry a gun when it is lawful to do so,? said Feldman. ?Clearly, you use whatever you can? to fight for your life, he said. So if scissors are all you?ve got, grab them by all means.
DUCK AND CUTTER: A Homeland Security video shows these scenes as helpful advice to workers on what to do if a mass killer strikes their office ? grab any weapon at hand, and hide under a desk.
The video, titled ?Options for Consideration,? also advises that people who get caught in an ?active shooter? situation should run away, hide under a desk or take cover out of the line of fire. The nearly four-minute-long video opens with chilling scenes from the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, and the 2011 attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords. But the video quickly shifts to hokey footage of office workers scampering under desks, crouching in corners and racing into closets to hide from a rampaging gunman on the loose.
?To protect your hiding place, lock the door if you can. Block the door with heavy furniture,? recommends the male narrator, speaking in measured, authoritative tones.
Other survival strategies promoted in the video include hiding ?behind large items such as cabinets or desks. Remain quiet. Silence your cellphone or pager. Even the vibration setting can give away a hiding position.?
Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said he has a better option for consideration than a pair of scissors when confronting an armed mass murderer ? a legal firearm.
?That?s why I prefer a gun, and I usually do carry a gun when it is lawful to do so,? said Feldman. ?Clearly, you use whatever you can? to fight for your life, he said. So if scissors are all you?ve got, grab them by all means.
