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OT: American Politics

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I did my yearly, company-mandated active shooter training just last week. The procedure is to first try to flee the building. If that isn't an option the next thing to do is hide. If all else fails, you're instructed to fight like your life depends on it because it does.

I don't recall this type of employee training prior to a couple of years ago and certainly it was not something we ever discussed when I was in elementary school or high school.
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yeah, I can confirm an 'active shooter' is not a situation I have ever trained for. pretty fucked that it has become normal.
 
Wayward DP said:
yeah, I can confirm an 'active shooter' is not a situation I have ever trained for. pretty fucked that it has become normal.
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Well, I do live in Dumbfuckistan (Alberta) so it's only a matter of time before such training becomes necessary. I mean shit, they are still tying up downtown Edmonton traffic with their weekly Freedumb truck rallies around the provincial legislature every Saturday even though there are no mandates left to protest against.
 
I was in high school when this happened

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Alberta remembers Taber school shooting 20 years later: ‘It still affects me’ | Globalnews.ca

It was a snowy, spring day on April 28, 1999, when an angry teenager walked through the doors of W.R. Myers High School and fired four shots.
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Our school was locked down - Taber is like 45 mins from Lethbridge but we were still locked down.

I heard on the bus home (City bus not school bus) that there was a shooter. There was an announcement in the school for teachers to do something when a blue binder - our teacher opened a red binder. I remember thinking it was funny that she did not have the proper binder - but obviously that was a code for lockdown or something but we were not aware of anything at the time.

When I moved to Edmonton there was an active shooter a few buildings over at the WCB building.

Once I was on a the train coming home from work and the train never left the station - which was not all that weird as there is always issues with a faulty train or something. What was different was that the doors were actually locked. We could not get out. Then suddenly the train car was surrounded by swat style cops with guns drawn ordering us off the train. Found out that there was just some random person walking around with a gun and they thought he went on to the train (he didn't) - he was not shooting people just a moron walking his rifle home. Still baffles me that they locked the train doors keeping us all in the train that they thought a gunman was on - what would they do if this guy starting shooting? we would have had no escape
 
worm said:
I was in high school when this happened

globalnews.ca

Alberta remembers Taber school shooting 20 years later: ‘It still affects me’ | Globalnews.ca

It was a snowy, spring day on April 28, 1999, when an angry teenager walked through the doors of W.R. Myers High School and fired four shots.
globalnews.ca globalnews.ca

Our school was locked down - Taber is like 45 mins from Lethbridge but we were still locked down.

I heard on the bus home (City bus not school bus) that there was a shooter. There was an announcement in the school for teachers to do something when a blue binder - our teacher opened a red binder. I remember thinking it was funny that she did not have the proper binder - but obviously that was a code for lockdown or something but we were not aware of anything at the time.

When I moved to Edmonton there was an active shooter a few buildings over at the WCB building.

Once I was on a the train coming home from work and the train never left the station - which was not all that weird as there is always issues with a faulty train or something. What was different was that the doors were actually locked. We could not get out. Then suddenly the train car was surrounded by swat style cops with guns drawn ordering us off the train. Found out that there was just some random person walking around with a gun and they thought he went on to the train (he didn't) - he was not shooting people just a moron walking his rifle home. Still baffles me that they locked the train doors keeping us all in the train that they thought a gunman was on - what would they do if this guy starting shooting? we would have had no escape
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I was living about a 10 minute walk away from the Ecole Polytechnique when shit happened on December 6th 1989. I actually heard about it while sitting in the Concordia University library and when I got home the area was filled with police cars.
 
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