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

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Just because he was an English major, I would have started flinging everything I could grab at him (considering that those damn pistols suck at accuracy), starting with loaded fire extinguishers and finishing with rocks, jumped him, and beaten the fuck out of him. And yes, I know he was armed: I wouldn't have cared. Right now, I have a serious death wish going on, and I figure that barring a head shot, I probably would have killed him before he would have been able to kill me...and I would have taken a trophy.

(Bloodthirsty, me? Nearly suicidal with rage at the incident? You betcha.)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm not strong enough to throw a fire extinguisher. I'd probably go for books or clothing, or else *use* the fire extinguisher on him. Maybe have one student point it at him while I rushed him. I doubt I could do much by myself, but I'd have to try.

Meanwhile, you all right? Anything else got you so pissed off? Are there people you know at VT? If you want to email me off-blog it's zandperl-AT-gmail-dot-com and I'd be glad to listen.