Another active shooter in MD.

[Rev. Rye]

This is so terrible. I heard on the news that until some gun law issues can be worked out, the type of environment we're in now, we need to learn how to deal with active shooter situations.

The Art of Manliness actually has an article explaining the sort of things that one needs to know to deal with an active shooter situation.

Roughly, it involves looking for anomalies beforehand, and when it's happening, do one of three things (in this exact order of precedence): run, hide, or fight. The article emphasises that actually fighting the shooter should be a last resort. Running or hiding from a dangerous situation might not seem manly, but, then again, the site isn't called "The Art of Suicidal Idiocy." And the section about fighting the gunman more or less presupposes that you don't have a firearm, and even emphasises the use of improvised weapons (anything from the more obvious suspects to a flashlight to a mug of coffee, whether the mug itself or the scalding hot coffee within) and hand-to-hand combat.

Granted, this doesn't actually stop these attacks from happening in the first place, but the Republicans (and, by extension, Congress itself) have made abundantly clear that they have no interest whatsoever in preventing the underlying causes behind it, whether the societal issues that lead to crime or even keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to use them for ill purposes on other people.

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So where's the relevant tweet? All that takes me to is her Twitter page. I ain't scrolling through it to find what you're talking about.

Link: https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/10...7809104897

Text: Horrifying. This is our nation’s 195th mass shooting - this year.

The source for her "195th mass shooting" remark: http://Massshootingtracker.org