Edit: Train here does not refer to actual formal training suggesting people sacrifice themselves during attacks.
The origin of this question comes after listening to a recent Sam harris podcast about guns where he suggests this is a possibility by comparing it to to the way possibly billions of people have had their thought process changed regarding airplane hijackers.
Pre-9/11, the vast majority of airplane hijackings ended without much violence, and certainly without the all passengers being killed, so if someone announced they were hijacking the airplane you were on, it wasn't unreasonable to just sit there and not intervene. Post-9/11, if you're on an airplane now and something happens, presumably a lot more people would attempt to intervene and just swarm the hijackers because they know what could happen.
As more cases get massive media attention, do you think this will start to be seen more in shootings that take place in public places? He also brought up that some schools provide training for this kind of thing now, including, as a last resort, physically swarming the attacker.
Obviously airplanes are a different situation. In public areas on the ground, generally people can attempt to run away, or you can hide waiting for police to come. The danger isn't as local as an airplane. Still, do you think at some point (at least in the US) people will start attacking the attacker?
The origin of this question comes after listening to a recent Sam harris podcast about guns where he suggests this is a possibility by comparing it to to the way possibly billions of people have had their thought process changed regarding airplane hijackers.
Pre-9/11, the vast majority of airplane hijackings ended without much violence, and certainly without the all passengers being killed, so if someone announced they were hijacking the airplane you were on, it wasn't unreasonable to just sit there and not intervene. Post-9/11, if you're on an airplane now and something happens, presumably a lot more people would attempt to intervene and just swarm the hijackers because they know what could happen.
As more cases get massive media attention, do you think this will start to be seen more in shootings that take place in public places? He also brought up that some schools provide training for this kind of thing now, including, as a last resort, physically swarming the attacker.
Obviously airplanes are a different situation. In public areas on the ground, generally people can attempt to run away, or you can hide waiting for police to come. The danger isn't as local as an airplane. Still, do you think at some point (at least in the US) people will start attacking the attacker?
