Colleges and universities are the right target for gunmen. As we read on the article “After One Campus Is Attacked, the Others Adapt” by Motoko Rick, he explains how these predator scared the community by sending threats of possible attack in colleges and universities. Motoko gives some tips and good strategies to keep the students and staff safe; by hiding, running, fighting and using high technology are some example of what he talks on his article. Even though with these sources that he provided, I still question myself. How to react on a situation like this? If I have a gunman shooting at me, what should I do? Anyone would scream or run on a scene like this one, but how can I prepare myself to face a situation where I see myself in danger.
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It will allow students and staff to be announce by call, massages, and signs; if there is an emergency at campus. Although “things can go awry” (1), by not having good signal and not being able to reach these students and staff. I agree with Motoko on installing “automatic locking mechanisms for dormitory and classroom doors” (1), it’s a way to keep a gunman away from hurting students. Locking the doors will keep the gunman lock and not being able to move around the campus. I have being on a situation where I was locked at home. Back in El Salvador my mom used to go for grocery and leave me and my siblings at home. We were not able to open the windows or answering the phone while we were alone. My older sister was about 15 years old, one day we heard gun shooting right in front of our home. My sister knew exactly were to go, there was a big hole under the floor, where we fit perfectly in it. It was a door that we lift up and by closing the top from outside it looked like nothing was under, just a simple wood …show more content…
Motoko writes; “Obviously if you get the chance to flee, that’s the first option” (2). But what if the shooter is in front of me? And I have a big chance to be shot by this person, what I do. Motoko states “fight, and if you are going to fight, you need to fight to the end” (2). I think Motoko have a good point, because I believe that if I show fear to the shooter it will be more probability to be shot, or to scare him and show that I know how to defect myself, showing courage.
It is hard to know what will happen on a regular day at school. I feel safe at Norwalk Community College, I haven’t experience any incidents or threats at my college. But I think the security can be force by having a police officer at campus, I think we will feel more comfortable, with all the attracts that we see and heard around us, this will give us more confident. This article brought me the scene I live back in El Salvador, it’s difficult to forget but we can prevent all these by watching out one by
It will allow students and staff to be announce by call, massages, and signs; if there is an emergency at campus. Although “things can go awry” (1), by not having good signal and not being able to reach these students and staff. I agree with Motoko on installing “automatic locking mechanisms for dormitory and classroom doors” (1), it’s a way to keep a gunman away from hurting students. Locking the doors will keep the gunman lock and not being able to move around the campus. I have being on a situation where I was locked at home. Back in El Salvador my mom used to go for grocery and leave me and my siblings at home. We were not able to open the windows or answering the phone while we were alone. My older sister was about 15 years old, one day we heard gun shooting right in front of our home. My sister knew exactly were to go, there was a big hole under the floor, where we fit perfectly in it. It was a door that we lift up and by closing the top from outside it looked like nothing was under, just a simple wood …show more content…
Motoko writes; “Obviously if you get the chance to flee, that’s the first option” (2). But what if the shooter is in front of me? And I have a big chance to be shot by this person, what I do. Motoko states “fight, and if you are going to fight, you need to fight to the end” (2). I think Motoko have a good point, because I believe that if I show fear to the shooter it will be more probability to be shot, or to scare him and show that I know how to defect myself, showing courage.
It is hard to know what will happen on a regular day at school. I feel safe at Norwalk Community College, I haven’t experience any incidents or threats at my college. But I think the security can be force by having a police officer at campus, I think we will feel more comfortable, with all the attracts that we see and heard around us, this will give us more confident. This article brought me the scene I live back in El Salvador, it’s difficult to forget but we can prevent all these by watching out one by