Post by bobothebeaten on Sept 22, 2014 12:55:14 GMT -5
I attended a unit meeting last week and they related information that was disseminated at an Executive Leadership meeting earlier that morning. They discussed what we should do if someone entered our area and started to shoot employees. We were instructed that we should first try to exit the building to safety, but if we couldn’t get out of the building we should retreat to our office, lock the door and hide under our desk.
I can understand trying to leave the building, but in all the past cases I’ve read and heard about that is usually not an option. The shooter(s) has already planned for that and prevented an escape. Our office doors don’t have locks so that was not a realistic option. Hiding under the desk limits your ability to defend yourself and makes you a very easy target. Past shooters would go to the desk and just shoot the people who couldn’t defend themselves.
I grew up in an era when men where taught to protect women and not run out of harms way before making sure the women were safe. What has changed since then? Listening to this made me totally disgusted with my leadership. I’m a former Marine and a former police officer. It’s not in my DNA to run like a little bitch abandoning my colleagues or cowering under a desk waiting to be shot. What is in my DNA and past training is to fight for my last breath and help the weaker people around me even if it means fighting to protect the sissy boys.
If this scenario ever occurs my intention will be to exit the building only when I know my colleagues are safe first. I will not lock myself in an office that doesn’t have a lock to begin with. I will not hide under my desk. I would prefer to be remembered by my family as the guy who died trying to defend himself and the people around me. I don’t want to be remembered as a man who died under his desk like a rodent.
Anyone who would go into an office with the intent to kill people is a coward and you should stand up to cowards. I grew up in a different America and I’m not changing just because our leadership has lost their courage. I would even try to save their sorry butts while they’re pooping their pants. I’m not a tough guy, but I’m nobody’s bitch and I’m not a coward.
I can understand trying to leave the building, but in all the past cases I’ve read and heard about that is usually not an option. The shooter(s) has already planned for that and prevented an escape. Our office doors don’t have locks so that was not a realistic option. Hiding under the desk limits your ability to defend yourself and makes you a very easy target. Past shooters would go to the desk and just shoot the people who couldn’t defend themselves.
I grew up in an era when men where taught to protect women and not run out of harms way before making sure the women were safe. What has changed since then? Listening to this made me totally disgusted with my leadership. I’m a former Marine and a former police officer. It’s not in my DNA to run like a little bitch abandoning my colleagues or cowering under a desk waiting to be shot. What is in my DNA and past training is to fight for my last breath and help the weaker people around me even if it means fighting to protect the sissy boys.
If this scenario ever occurs my intention will be to exit the building only when I know my colleagues are safe first. I will not lock myself in an office that doesn’t have a lock to begin with. I will not hide under my desk. I would prefer to be remembered by my family as the guy who died trying to defend himself and the people around me. I don’t want to be remembered as a man who died under his desk like a rodent.
Anyone who would go into an office with the intent to kill people is a coward and you should stand up to cowards. I grew up in a different America and I’m not changing just because our leadership has lost their courage. I would even try to save their sorry butts while they’re pooping their pants. I’m not a tough guy, but I’m nobody’s bitch and I’m not a coward.