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How To Survive A Mass Shooting

If you can run, run. If you can't run, hide. If you have to, fight.

The recent mass shooting incidents at Connecticut elementary school, a Colorado movie theater, and a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, among other places, have made a once-unlikely question relevant:

What should you do if someone comes into your workplace, school, or public venue and starts randomly shooting at people?

The three-part answer, according to the Department of Homeland Security, is Run, Hide, Fight. If you can get out of the building or the vicinity of the shooter, do so. If you can't, hide. If you can't run or hide, as a last resort, resolve to incapacitate the shooter through any means necessary.

The video above, produced last summer by the City of Houston (Tx.) Mayor's Office, was shared by the Limerick Township Police Department on its Facebook page on Thursday

The video dramatizes a situation in which an armed man enters a large office building and indiscriminately opens fire on the occupants. 

The Limerick Police Department said it trains with other police departments in the area to respond to active shooter incidents.

John Q. Public January 24, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Your chances of getting hit by lightening are greater than involvement in a 'mass' shooting.
Jeremy Beaver January 25, 2013 at 04:49 pm
How to survive a mass shooting... exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and carry a gun.
Erin R January 26, 2013 at 05:34 am
I know people who have been hit by lightening, so I'm not sure that's the most helpful argument. But even if it is unlikely that any of us would face a mass shooting should we put our heads in the sand and not know what to do if it were to happen?
John Q. Public January 26, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Erin, on average only 50 people /year are hit by lightening. That you know multiple people is newsworthy indeed. I can't find a average for mass-shooting/year, but just looking at only the last 20 years, it must be a very small number.

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