Our kids are taught at school to use "Kelso's Choices" here. There's a whole cirriculum developed about making good choices at the playground and in school. When someone does something you don't like, try a couple of the items on the Choice list unless it's a big problem & you have to tell an adult.
Walk Away
Ignore it
Walk Away
Ignore it
Talk it out
Go to another game
Go to another game
Share & take turns
Tell them to stop
Apologize
Make a deal
Wait & cool off
This works pretty well for keeping a playground or classroom disciplined & easy for teachers. It does absolutely nothing to teach a person to protect themselves. Kelso's Choices don't work so well in a terrorist situation. None of those options will save your life.
In self-defense class, I was taught to avoid dangerous situations as the number one way to defend myself. You can't really manage that if you attend school & a shooter shows up. We were also told in self-defense class, if the attacker has a weapon, do what he wants. This mentality won't help you either in a school shooting.
If a lone gunman is going to try to kill you, you have to fight back. Throw things at his head (cell phone, keys, books). While he's trying to avoid projectiles, tackle him. You can't wait for someone else to save you - you may have to be the one to shout, "Get him!" to spur others to action.
If a lone gunman is going to try to kill you, you have to fight back. Throw things at his head (cell phone, keys, books). While he's trying to avoid projectiles, tackle him. You can't wait for someone else to save you - you may have to be the one to shout, "Get him!" to spur others to action.
What have you got to lose?
3 comments:
whether you do take action or you don't, you may lose your life, so why not act? Yes, you may lose your life, but while they are concentrating on you, others might be able to save themselves and others. Unfortunately, in the ultimate "ME" generation that we have now, I worry that no one will make that choice and all will perish.....
yeah, getting your fool self killed trying to take down some homicidal nutjub sucks big time. but being executed by same is worse.
Fewer people are killed inthe US each year by crazed shooters than by lightning. (Lightning is kind of my threshold of whether to worry about a danger.)
In both Columbine and Virginia Tech the highest mortality came among those who were perceived as oppressing the weak.
Surely we're not so pathetic as a country that we need a shooter to give people a reason to be kind to the unfortunate, are we?
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