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<p>Sounds like what I would do. I would assist as many people as I could, but I probably wouldn’t consciously put myself between someone and the shooter. </p>
<p>“Get down!”
“Crawl over there!”
“Keep low!”
“Run!”</p>
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<p>Ideally, yes. </p>
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<p>Noble. </p>
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<p>That’s probably true. Remember, Reagan’s shooter pulled off six shots, despite all the Secret Service agents that surrounded Reagan. I doubt that an untrained high schooler would be able to disarm the shooter.</p>
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<p>Again, noble, but there is the problem of collateral damage. </p>
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<p>Well-written and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, in the spur of the moment, people don’t have time to contemplate. They act, mostly out of instinct. And this, perhaps, invalidates my question, but still, it’s interesting to contemplate. </p>
<p>@stressedout - I like your delineation of all the various types of scenarios. I agree that we don’t truly know how we will react until we are put in the situation. Often times, people simply fail to react at all in stressful situations. </p>
<p>For example, one family was driving a Lexus. The accelerator was stuck, and the car was going at 125 MPH. The family called 911. The dispatcher, in the last moments of the call, heard the family praying. Rationally, you’d probably try unsticking the accelerator, or taking the keys out the car, or hitting the brakes and engaging the emergency brakes. Instead, the family started praying.</p>