People in Active Shooter Situations Should Run, Hide or Fight: D.C

“If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there”, she tells Cooper.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says almost 60 percent of active shooter situations are over before police arrive.

She said she’s more concerned that people will develop a numbness to the violence.

Second amendment groups were quick to criticize Lanier’s comments and question the “Draconian gun laws in the district”. “That’s kind of counterintuitive to what cops always tell people, right?”

In recent years, mentally ill gunmen and now terrorists have killed victims indiscriminately, their aim to kill as many as possible, rather than taking hostages.

On 60 Minutes, Lanier said that those facing a gunman, like the Paris terrorist attacks, have a choice: “run, hide, or fight”. It’s usually ” ‘Don’t take action, call 911…’ We’ve never told people ‘Take action.’ This is a different scenario”.

She noted that most active shooters kill most of the victims in the first 10 minutes, often before law enforcement officers are able to locate the shooter. “I don’t like guns”, she said as the press conference with local business leaders erupted in applause. “This is a different scenario [and] we are telling people this now”.

While Lanier’s blunt words may strike some as revelatory, the advice was offered in 2013 in a video titled “Run, Hide, Fight”, from the Houston mayor’s Office of Public Safety and funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

“We are declining to participate further with your story”, Conboy said.

“I think that because so much can happen in so few seconds, intervention by citizens can make a big difference”, Wexler added. “That’s not an option anymore”.

Lanier did not elaborate during the “60 Minutes” interview what form action by civilians would take and whether this meant people should carry weapons.

Little did she know that she was now face-to-face with a bureaucracy entrusted with the function of implementing one obstacle after another, for a total of 17 steps, to allow a person to register a gun.