Spencer Corson

And if you were to be confronted by the enemy, you would fight like your life depended on it because it absolutely did.

Now, Sandy Hook happens, Columbine happens, all of these tragic things.

And this cottage industry stops popping up about active shooter drills and what are you going to do and this, that, and the other thing.

And run, hide, fight basically got reduced to run to your hiding spot.

But here's the problem.

A fire in a building is just as dangerous and as unpredictable as an active shooter, but we wouldn't hide from a fire and hope it wouldn't find us.

We would run.

Because running puts as much time and distance between you and the threat as possible, which is harder to hit, the kid crying in the corner in a classroom, or the kid who's running and putting time and distance away from the bad guy with each step they take.

So what we should really be doing is telling these students, these teachers, these families, these friends, that if you are ever in a situation where violence is being enacted, do not hide.

Run.

Put as much time and distance between you and the threat as possible.

You don't have to see someone to shoot someone.

Schools are not fortified hard rooms.

They're plywood doors with glass.

Bullets travel through doors and windows with ease.

Watch any John Wick movie.

So just being behind a red line in a classroom because that's the line where the student can't see through the glass.

You don't think that student knows the layout of the classroom?

They absolutely do.

And guess what?