Texas Lone Star University is a gun free zone

[Lost Lake]

The Texas Lone Star University that just experienced the tragic shooting of three people (all alive thank God) is a gun free zone.
Students are instructed to hide and not provoke an 'active shooter'.

From the college policy:

...the college offers a variety of hiding, evacuating, wedging, locking, and other instructions depending on whether one is in a classroom or office, a hallway, an auditorium, open spaces, or “trapped with the gunmen,” in which case the first rule listed is “don’t do anything to provoke them.”

They actually say that.

Absent from any instruction is the advice to return fire, because obedient and compliant students, faculty, staff and visitors are expected to abide by the rules those intent on imposing really “serious consequences” ignore as a matter of course, and count on as a matter of success assurance.

Has the world gone mad???

The policy also states that playing dead may work, or you have the choice to fight for your life when there are no other options. Albeit not with a firearm you are legally allowed to own and carry, but you may attack a shooter bare handed in an attempt to live.

 

[Lenny_D]

“trapped with the gunmen,” in which case the first rule listed is “don’t do anything to provoke them.”

I wish they'd explain how you avoid provoking someone who you have never met and wants to kill you. I guess if you may have had a stick in your hand you should not poke him in an agressive manner! You just can't make this stuff up!

Len

 

[Old cop]

I've seen this before and it is usually written policy from "corporate", or whatever passes for it at a university. I taught part time at a small college after retiring, and the attorneys in the president's office wrote a similar policy. I quit, not wanting to become cannon fodder for the next madman to come down the pike.

 

[Neumann]

Although widely described as "another school shooting," the incident near Houston would better be called "a shooting near a school."

It was an argument between two men which turned to gunplay, not a random attack on teachers and students. It occured in a parking lot, not a classroom. The gunman shot himself in the buttocks rather than the head, perhaps placing his thinking end at risk.

The same words, arrayed differently, connote completely different meanings, and conjur different emotions. Together with repetition, this is the propagandists' stock in trade.