It's Tuesday and you can still feel the effects of staying out all night on Saturday, and drinking way too much alcohol, with way too many friends. Who said college would be easy?

You hear a loud POP out in the hallway, outside your classroom.

A girl screams. POP, POP .

These are gunshots. This is a school shooting!

Columbine flashes through your head. Then Virginia Tech.

More screams - these are coming from inside your classroom as your classmates realize the impending attack.

You panic, jumping to your feet, and look around fast for a place to escape.

There's no escape. There's only one door, and outside that door are where the gunshots are coming from. Your classmates are on their feet terrified, some are cowering in a group in the corner.

POP, POP, POP.

You do not want to get shot. But there's no where to run.

Your instinct now, when faced with no escape, is to get to the shooter, and take him out.

You make a beeline for the door, sprinting across the classroom, and dive in the corner to the left of the door, grabbing a garbage can as you do. You hide as much of your body behind the garbage can as possible, and wait.

You don't have to wait long. The door flys open, and an outstretched arm holding a gun is the first thing that enters. A male walks in behind it, wearing combat fatigues and a black vest. He doesn't look down to his right, or if he did he only made a casual glance, and out of the corner of his eye only saw what he thought was just a garbage can.

POP, he shoots at a student across the room, standing by a window. The student falls to the floor.

There's no time to think -- GET HIM NOW.

You throw the garbage can to the side as you explode to your feet, and tackle the shooter hard from behind. You need to get one arm around his neck, which you do immediately, and squeeze with all your might, cutting off his airway.

You know his hand is going to start flailing or that he's going to start shooting wildly, and you need to get to his gun arm fast, and grab his hand, and force the gun so it's pointed at his own body, and away from yours.

You might take a gun shot to the leg. Expect it, if it happens. Do not let go. Ignore the pain if you do take a gun shot. You must disable the shooter at all costs.

You continue to choke him. You've got him in an old fashioned sleeper hold, and this is not what he was expecting. You've also rolled him over, so he's flat on the ground face down on his stomach, and you're laying on top of him.

He stops trying to pull the trigger.

You look up at your frightened classmates. "GET THE GUN!" you scream.

Your classmates are terrified. One of them has been shot and lies bleeding on the ground.

"GET THE GUN!" you scream again.

Finally, Darryl, a twenty year old you don't know very well, runs over and starts working on prying the gun from the shooters hand.

"He won't let go!" Darryl says.

You grab the shooter by the back of the head, and slam his face down as hard as you can on the floor, knocking him unconsciousness. Darryl gets the gun away.

The chaos is over.


SUMMARY:

What I just described sounds like your typical classroom shooting, where the gunman marches in from the hallway, having already fired off rounds from down the hall, thereby alerting you that danger was quickly heading your way.

Now, if the gunman has not fired off any shots yet, and you're in the first classroom he happens to target, you're not going to get any warning that he's coming. He's just going to open the door, march in, and start shooting.


What to Do if You're in Classroom # 1

1) Run / Dive for the floor. The gunman is going to start shooting, and hopefully the other students will be up on their feet running also, when they see the first students in the front rows getting shot. If you're in a classroom with no escape, you're only hope is to either play dead, or to crouch down and run along the far wall to the front of the classroom, and try to circle around the gunman, and take him from behind (see above).

Either of these tactics are going to depend on how alert the gunman is. Both are a gamble. But either one are better than cowering on the floor doing nothing, waiting to get shot -- or running around in terror, with no plan, waiting to get shot.


Escape a School Shooting - Know Your Surroundings in Advance

From day one of going to this school, the first thing you did was get to know your classroom. Do your windows open easily? Can you jump from them?

If gunshots ever sounded down the hall or from another classroom, would you have time to run from your classroom, and make a beeline for the nearest exit?

Do you have a backup plan, if the doors happened to be chained shut?

Have you identified all exits and possible hiding places? A closet may not be the best hiding place, as the gunman may simply throw open a closet door and shoot whoevers inside.

Choosing a front row seat may not be the smartest thing to do anymore, especially if you're in an unsecured classroom with unlocked doors.

In this day and age, the brightest kids probably sit in the back of the room, near an unlocked window, so they can make an easy exit when Poindexter needs to let some steam off.


Teachers Shoot Back

When you first heard gunshots going off down the hall, you noticed your teacher duck down behind her desk.

Now you know why.

The door to the classroom flies open, and in comes the shooter. He doesn't see the teacher, who is ducked down behind her desk. He aims at a student.

POP, POP. Unexpectedly, the gunman falls to the ground.

The teacher, who was packing her own hand gun, just saved the day by doing exactly what she'd trained herself to do. In the weeks and months prior to this, she had practiced with other teachers, the exact same scenario, and now in the heat of the moment, pulled it off perfectly.


Islamic Terrorist School Shooting

What do you do when its an islamic terrorist, or ten islamic terrorists, who are hell bent on terror and killing as many people as they possibly can? If you've been following the other articles on our site, by now you know that Al-Qaeda has alleged connections to MS-13 street gangs and other Mexican organized crime.

The jist of this is that they are disguising islamic terrorists as Mexicans, and sneaking them into the United States as sleeper agents.

More than likely, they will be using nukes to hit us. However there is the slim possibility that they will also just pull off random killings in the mean time, so be aware of that if you're out in public or sitting in your classroom at school.

Bin Laden has made threats that he wants to kill our children, and that may include high school / college students. The Cinncinati Enquirer reports (April 3, 2007):

The FBI recently issued an alert stating that members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States...

It then reports that in 2001 videos were obtained of Islamic terrorists training to take over a school. Though the FBI denies any danger (I'm sure they don't want to scare the public), the Cinncinati Enquirer does a great job of laying out even more evidence:

See: Extremist groups sign up as school bus drivers

Bin Laden may pull off a terrorist attack on a school or other public place some time in the near future. Be prepared for the worst.


Policies that Deter School Shootings

Only attend schools with good security, which includes locked classrooms, armed security guards, and a published policy that teachers are armed, to deter potential shooters from choosing to go this route.

If the school does not have a good plan for school shootings, choose a different school. If there are no other schools to attend, harass this school to get a policy in place. Work with other students to call attention to the threat, and encourage your school to get a plan in place.

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