It might be too soon to discuss this, but as soon as it happened my brain started trying to think of ways to reduce your chance of dying when you're in a crowd of 20,000 people in a small area and some horrible excuse for a person starts firing into the crowd from the 32 floor of an adjacent building.
So far, my analysis has yielded:
1. Avoid big crowds. I do this whenever possible and this is just another example why I am glad that I have no interest in activities that involve big crowds of people.
2. The best course of action I could conceive was to start moving and get as far away from the bulk of the crowd as quickly as possible. I think if he was aiming in a conventional sense, it was at the crowd and not targeting and hitting individuals. Of similar importance would be to move to any available cover at the same time you're separating yourself from the crowd.
#2 necessitates being very aware of your surroundings, observing potential routes of egress long before anything bad started to happen, and noting places where you might be able to take cover. Then, form a plan and a backup plan to minimize the dithering and decision making that will be next to impossible under that kind of stress. Some people do this kind of thing on a smaller scale when they walk into a restaurant, but it seems like the concept would be solid for a variety of situations.
So far, my analysis has yielded:
1. Avoid big crowds. I do this whenever possible and this is just another example why I am glad that I have no interest in activities that involve big crowds of people.
2. The best course of action I could conceive was to start moving and get as far away from the bulk of the crowd as quickly as possible. I think if he was aiming in a conventional sense, it was at the crowd and not targeting and hitting individuals. Of similar importance would be to move to any available cover at the same time you're separating yourself from the crowd.
#2 necessitates being very aware of your surroundings, observing potential routes of egress long before anything bad started to happen, and noting places where you might be able to take cover. Then, form a plan and a backup plan to minimize the dithering and decision making that will be next to impossible under that kind of stress. Some people do this kind of thing on a smaller scale when they walk into a restaurant, but it seems like the concept would be solid for a variety of situations.