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Volume 17
October 2017 Edition
This piece will mainly focus on the workplace,
however, a personal plan should be flexible and
able to be adapted to any venue.
No one is better equipt to protect you
then you are in a time of emergency. If
you have no idea how to protect yourself
you will be of no use to anyone else.
One present day school of thought states that
you have a better chance of being struck by light-
ning than being killed in an active shooter or a
terrorist attack.
However, after the Paris and San Bernardino
attacks, it seems lightning is moving closer and
closer to home every day.
Aaron Alexis marched through the Navy Yard going door to
door with a sawed-off shotgun in his hand on Sept 16, 2013,
fatally shooting 12 people and injured three others in a mass
shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Com-
mand (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in Wash-
ington, D.C. It was the second-deadliest mass murder on a
U.S. military base, behind only the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
(Image courtesy of the FBI)
(Image courtesy of YouTube)
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