What should individuals do if they find themselves in a situation where they cannot escape or barricade themselves in a room?

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Robert Carlson · Answer

So this is a really good question. What do you do if you're involved in an active shooter event and you're unable to either escape or run away or lock yourself in a room or barricade or try and prevent the shooter from getting access to you? This is going to involve understanding and being able to analyze your environment and your scenario. If you are in kind of an extended distance away from the shooter, maybe it's in an open retail establishment, you're on the other side of the store, something like that, you want to get out of open space where you don't want the shooter to be able to shoot at you. So you want to get behind some sort of cover, some sort of hard object that's going to stop those bullets. If you're in close proximity, maybe a shooter walks into the room where you're at, you're right up on him when he starts shooting, you need to fight back. You need to use whatever resources, whatever tools you have available to try and take control of that situation from that bad guy. This is a lot easier said than done. A lot of people out there, they'll talk about, this is the good guy with a gun. It's not that simple. You need to have the right mentality. You need to have the right conviction. You need to fundamentally, you need to understand that this is a fight for your life and you need to do whatever it takes to do what is necessary to keep yourself safe and alive when that happens.

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"What should individuals do if they find themselves in a situation where they cannot escape or barricade themselves in a room?"