What would you do?

[asterroc]

You're at work or at school, a normal boring day, and you hear gunshots in the hallway outside the door. What would you do?

The gunman in the VA Tech shooting was ID'd as a student from South Korea, an English major. One student in a room he was shooting in survived by playing dead, so he didn't shoot her. She and others in the room then barricaded the door with themselves so he couldn't push through, but he shot through the door. In another classroom they shoved the teacher's desk against the door to block it closed.

What would you do?

Comments

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

You know, planning for a zombie invasion is much less sobering.

It's weird. For a while now, I've assumed that high schools were the unsafe places. The setting where some imbalanced psyche might finally tip over and pick up a gun.

But college? Heck, other than the clock tower incident (and that wasn't even a student), that imbalanced psyche usually hurts one, maybe two people in the process-- and one of them is almost always the person who's imbalanced in the first place.

So, yeah. What would I do? Assuming I'm not one of the first people the gunman pops, I find cover and whip out the cellphone and stay on 911 until I hear sirens.

The barricading students were smart.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I was trying to figure out how I could barricade my classrooms. Some I have desks big enough, some I do not. Some the doors open out into the hallway. Some the windows are big enough to jump out and only one story up, or are above another part of the building so can jump to that. I guess the key is just to take action if a shooter is coming for you, and not just sit there; but if he's left you alone, then you do just sit there.