Pleasantly surprised-Active Shooter Presentation

[JKosprey]

As part of one of my introductory classes here at SUNY Cobleskill, I had to attend a presentation today on how to react to an active shooter on campus. I went into it expecting to get into trouble. Even though it's an agricultural school, Cobleskill is still full of old hippies, and I knew there was no way I was going to be able to keep quiet if somebody tried to tell me to hide under my desk like a good little sheep. As it turns out, I shouldn't have worried.

The DVD we were shown actually covered the combat mindset(although they called it the "survival mindset") and even included tackling a shooter as one of your options. The campus PD officer lectured on situational awareness, and on using items in the surrounding area as weapons. It was essentially pretty much the same talk that I would have given, and it was very similar in content, if not tone, to Matt G's excellent post on the subject here:

http://maypeacebewithyou.blogspot.com/2 ... a-hey.html

I was absolutely shocked, but pretty happy. It did irk me a bit when several times in the DVD they said "You'll have every weapon you need" and I was thinking to myself, except for a gun to shoot back with. However, I have already made up my mind as to the actions I will take if it's MY class getting shot up, regardless of my weapons status. If it's not my class, I'm getting as many people out as possible, and will engage if an opportunity presents. And otherwise on such a small campus, our PD will be there within two minutes tops, and they did make it clear that new response doctrine means they are going in. Two of them are also soldiers. I have a reasonable degree of trust there. I'd still prefer to be armed, but it's better than it could be.