[ansel12]

prompted police departments to recommend fleeing, hiding or fighting in the event of a mass attack

You mean there used to be a different plan than, if you get caught up in a mass killing at the mall, "run, hide, or figh"?

Good Lord, what was the old plan, line up, show ID if requested, there was no "run, or hide"?

[GOPJ]

...looked at survival rates and the actions taken by people in classrooms under attack during the Virginia Tech massacre, in which Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and teachers before killing himself.

In two classrooms, the students and instructors tried to hide or play dead after Mr. Cho entered. Nearly all were shot, and most died. In a third classroom, Prof. Liviu Librescu,a Holocaust survivor, told his students to jump out the second-story window while he tried to hold the classroom door shut, delaying Mr. Cho from coming in. Professor Librescu was killed, but many of the students survived, and only three were injured by gunfire. In another classroom, where the students and teacher blocked the door with a heavy desk and held it in place, Mr. Cho could not get in, and everyone lived.

“The take-home message is that you’re not helpless...

Interesting stuff ...