NY Post
Homeland Security’s tip for confronting mass killers: Scissors
“If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,” says the narrator in the video, which shows an office worker pulling scissors out of a desk drawer.
The video, titled “Options for Consideration,” also advises that people who get caught in an “active shooter” situation should run away, hide under a desk or take cover out of the line of fire.
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Thank God for Nappi.
Schadenfreude on January 31, 2013 at 5:02 PM
This sage advice brought to you by the finest bureaucrats 100,000,000.00$ can buy.
Jeddite on January 31, 2013 at 5:04 PM
I had no idea that Scissorco made handguns.
Scribbler on January 31, 2013 at 5:05 PM
If scissors are this deadly, then they must be regulated. We need a national registration of scissors. They’re deadly weapons!
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 31, 2013 at 5:07 PM
Greetings from Nappi
Schadenfreude on January 31, 2013 at 5:11 PM
Why not just scream, “I have a gun, and I’ll blow your phucking head off!!!”
Oh, I forgot. That’s “hate speech” which is also probably illegal.
Cody1991 on January 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM
What’s wrong with just talking or begging for your life like a miserable, pathetic drone they wish us all to be?
arnold ziffel on January 31, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Just don’t run with them though.
Mitoch55 on January 31, 2013 at 5:15 PM
They want you to die defenseless. They want you to be raped with no real means of leveling the playing filed.
They are ghouls, and this is a way to mock you.
tom daschle concerned on January 31, 2013 at 5:15 PM
They prefer that we reserve that for our dealings with government.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 31, 2013 at 5:16 PM
It’s sad to think of the folks who’ll die with scissors in their hands while wondering when the people with guns will finally show up to stop the killer.
rogerb on January 31, 2013 at 5:17 PM
It doesn’t work with the the government no matter how hard we try.
I doubt it will work with other criminals.
Cody1991 on January 31, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Never bring scissors to a gun fight.
rbj on January 31, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Well, that’s an improvement over the “Active Shooter” training they put out a couple of years ago. In that one, in addition to showing people cowering under their desks (“and be sure to keep both hands visible when the SWAT team arrives while you tell them what you know”), we were instructed that if you weren’t able to remain hidden and the shooter entered an area, to throw things at him — they showed a couple people throwing stuff on a conference room table including a basket of silk flowers.
I have instructed my family that if I am ever injured or killed by an active shooter at my place of employment, they are to sue the company and the government for preventing me from being able to carry my own means of self defense.
AZfederalist on January 31, 2013 at 5:20 PM
The queen ant doesn’t care if some of her worker drones are stepped on.
So long as she’s OBEYED, that’s all that matters.
Rebar on January 31, 2013 at 5:21 PM
In the UK you need to be 18 to buy scissors. That’s where we’re headed.
Fenris on January 31, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Did they want the shooter to enjoy the nice decor?
Seriously though, that example and Nap’s great idea is the type thing that needs to be on youtube and elsewhere.
arnold ziffel on January 31, 2013 at 5:28 PM
I knew a Green Beret. He would have had two words for this.
“Too close”
The stupidity of this is too massive for me to find anything funny to say this afternoon. Like an 8 Ball “Try Again Tomorrow”.
Hey, an 8 Ball would be better! At least you could throw it and hope to hit the sh*t in the head.
vityas on January 31, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Scissors for us; guns for them :http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/01/homeland-security-wants-7000-ar-15s-for-personal-defense/
davidk on January 31, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Does it count if my weapon of choice isn’t a pair of scissors, but is still good at cutting holes in things, mainly 0.45″-diameter holes?
Bruce MacMahon on January 31, 2013 at 5:30 PM
The irony of this is that I work where we build stuff that blows up. Our products make sidearms look like pea shooters. Yet we are by policy prevented from being able to carry when on site and are also prevented from having firearms in our vehicles when on plant premises.
AZfederalist on January 31, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Your tax dollars at work.
And they wonder why we dislike tax hikes.
BTW, have you noticed the increase in PC propaganda ads (funded by Obama’s Stimulus Program) on radio lately? There oughtta be a law against it.
petefrt on January 31, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Never bring a roll of duct tape to a gunfight: http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/and-then-a-roll-of-duct-tape-came-out/
davidk on January 31, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Good one.
davidk on January 31, 2013 at 5:37 PM
With all the scissors at a school, this shouldn’t have happened: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/31/Another-Gun-Free-Zone-Another-Shooting-This-Time-Atlanta
davidk on January 31, 2013 at 5:40 PM
Good for you. If more did that, maybe they’d think twice before making gun-free killing fields.
petefrt on January 31, 2013 at 5:48 PM
So is the Secret Service switching to scissors?
KenInIL on January 31, 2013 at 5:50 PM
Yep, but they get the sharp kind and we get the little kid scissors.
arnold ziffel on January 31, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Only trained professional law enforcement personnel need sharp pointy scissors. You don’t need an assault scissor to skin a deer.
AZfederalist on January 31, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Oh, you build the Chevy Volt!
turfmann on January 31, 2013 at 6:06 PM
i love this thread, lol.
oh sure, the killer will get scared and run away just because you held up a pair of scissors and glared angrily at him XD
Sachiko on January 31, 2013 at 6:20 PM
This is an Onion piece, right?
visions on January 31, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Oh no, it’s very real. I know when I sat through the video, it made me extremely angry. I don’t like it when somebody tries to instruct me on how to be a good little cowering victim because they have denied me the ability to protect myself.
AZfederalist on January 31, 2013 at 6:46 PM
What? No paper or rock?
Bmore on January 31, 2013 at 6:49 PM
I’m sure they mean Ninja throwing scissors…
VA_gent on January 31, 2013 at 7:19 PM
We don’t need guns because we have scissors.
What country is this?
petefrt on January 31, 2013 at 7:58 PM