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Obama's DHS Funded Survival Guide – Alternative to Using …

DHS (Department of Homeland Security) funded a PSA (public service announcement) in line with President Obama's initiative on Gun Control and keeping them out of the hands of law abiding citizens. This "Run Hide Fight Survival Guide Against an Active Shooter" video and pamphlets are pretty pathetic. Would you rather be able to protect yourself with a gun or allow President Obama and select Democrats try to add limitations to the 2nd Amendment in what seems like a pathway to undermine and eventually abolish it.

This is President Obama's vision of how a law abiding citizen should be able to protect themselves. Run, Hide and if needed create an "improvised weapon" to protect yourself to overpower your attacker. So all you housewives and elderly people and men better brush up on your macgyver skills on creating improvised weapons to protect yourself in high pressure situations against heavily armed assailants wanting to kill you.

If this does not look dumb to you, you're hopeless.

Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them, along with all other Department of Homeland Security employees, to run and hide if they encounter an "active shooter."

It's one thing to tell civilian employees to cower under a desk if a gunman starts spraying fire in a confined area, say members of Tucson Local 2544/National Border Patrol Council, but to give armed law enforcement professionals the same advice is downright insulting. The instructions from DHS come in the form of pamphlets and a mandatory computer tutorial.

"We are now taught in an 'Active Shooter' course that if we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to 'run away' and 'hide'" union leader Brandon Judd wrote on the website of 3,300-member union local. "If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become 'aggressive' and 'throw things' at him or her. We are then advised to 'call law enforcement' and wait for their arrival (presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered)."

The FEMA-administered computer course, entitled "IS-907- Active Shooter: What You Can Do," is a 45-minute tutorial that provides guidance to all employees on how to recognize indicators of possible workplace violence and what to do should their office be invaded by gunmen and focuses around three main options; either evacuate, hide out, or in dire circumstances, take action.

Once the course is completed, employees are urged to download additional materials including a summary booklet and pocket-sized card outlining protocol, which was also handed out to employees two months ago.

One DHS employee said the instruction cards were handed out to employees six weeks ago. At the time, he assumed they were only for civilian employees, not armed law enforcement officers within the department, which oversees the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

"Requiring BP agents to follow the same steps is egregious," he said.

DHS officials maintain that the Active Shooter course was designed for all employees—civilian and law-enforcement officers– and no one should rush into a situation where they, or others around them, could get hurt.

"The Department of Homeland Security takes very seriously its responsibility to protect all of its employees from threats that may surface in the workplace," U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Michael Friel said in a written statement

President Obama is nothing short of pathetic in his attempts to disarm law abiding citizens with his governmental over reach creating new more restrictive gun control laws as another step in chipping away at taking away legal gun ownership and our rights to bear arms.

Watch this video to the end and then tell me what would you do, what position would you rather find yourself in.

NOT having to deal with it is NOT an option because no matter how many laws created we will NEVER take all the illegal guns off the street or out of the hands of criminals who are breaking the law in the first place. So that line of thinking is not an option.

This video and instruction pamphlets were also handed out to the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) workers to keep in line with President Obama's agenda on gun control. Most DHS agents response was that it may be much more effective if they were to just pull out their own guns and confront the shooter by shooting them. Duh!

This videos if anything is proof that we should keep our right to bear arms and use it to defend ourselves if needed instead of cowering in a corner or under a desk and trying to "if necessary" try to "improvise weapons" in order to confront the shooter and take control of them. That is a highly risky scenario which almost guarantees someone will be shot and much more dangerous.

This video is actually a training course offered by DHS for many governmental employees which is mandatory for some.
Http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is907…