• CoolYori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    My work when we were still in the office hired some cops to do “active shooter” training. They got us all to watch a presentation then we got told that next week they would randomly test us. Well the test turned out to be the cops dressed out like shooters taking over the building and scaring everyone to death. I am sure the cops love getting paid extra to stick what are hopefully fake gun in office workers faces.

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      What the fuck!? Cops in America play active shooter to “train” people? Like a school lockdown but with dudes waving guns around?

      What happens if someone they’re “training” or a bystander is armed, tries to be the “good guy with a gun”, and starts blasting?

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        Any problems that were caused by the “training” were swept aside because we got a threat from a terminated employee. There was a general email sent out that if you had issues you could contact HR and they would let you know when to take the day off. They probably thought that would have covered them. I was actually told beforehand that I could take the day off by my boss because he knows I am autistic and something like this would not be good for me at all.

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          This is just so bizarre to me. America just seems so foreign, I can’t imagine anything like the cops doing an active shooter dry run happening in my neck of the woods, that’s wild!

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            Would it blow your mind to find out that most were okay with it and some even thought it was cool? There were even a few programmers that are tacticool libertarian types who probably got hard over the experience.

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              jesus-christ yea I don’t even have a response to that. Do they do that kinda shit in schools too? We had practice lockdowns here but it was just teachers going around checking if the doors were locked and stuff like that, but I’m wondering if it’s more “realistic” down in the states

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                7 months ago

                I went to school in the 90s so I dont know what the current trend is, but it would not surprise me if they did something close to it.

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        7 months ago

        That was probably a different person, but I also have a bad memory. This story is actually common where I am from because its a wasteland of corporate offices.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    "Active shooters are a force of nature, much like the weather. They have no rationale or motivation and are definitely not right wing murderers ideologically committed to the core principles of the state, carrying that ideology out of the abbatoir of the board room and police department and in to the street.

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    7 months ago

    Had to watch an active shooter video at work. This isn’t doxing as I’ve said similar I lived in Florida (yeah I know, thanks for your condolences). https://youtu.be/55c8HpPu9o8?si=u0ub1GZgSTGx6sbt

    Uploaded by someone else. Apparently in the past there was a shooting at one of our stores so now we have a fancy Homeland Security video.

    This is just how life be. It’s sad.

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    And yet my family looked at me like I had two heads when I suggested we should take a minute to think about how to react to mass shooting when we visited America. I don’t think I was going overboard either, it’s not like I made it the constant focus and obsessed about it while we were there, but I don’t think it’s ridiculous to take a minute or two and have a quick discussion on how to act/react just in case. It’s like knowing where the fire exits are, a little foresight can give you some peace of mind.