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If
you were in the rest room at work or school, heard shots fired outside in the hall, then
heard your best friend calling for help, would you go out and help or hide inside the
room?I would like to believe I would go out there to find my friend.
Janet, 44
E. Brunswick, NJ USA
I think I'd whip out my cell phone and call
for help and then try and see inside the room wityhout going into it. Maybe shimming out
the window in the bathroom and then walking arround the building unill I could see through
another window. Then maybe I could get some more help or, try and come in the back and
take the attacker off guard.
Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA
I, like most people, would like to think
that I wold help without hesitation. However, I can't know for sure unless found in such a
situation.
Felicia, 35
Lowell, MA
USA
ooh, that's a hard one! In a rational-sitting-in-uni-meant-to-be-doing-something-else kind of
way I'd say that I would hide at least until the shooting seemed to have stopped, as
getting myself hurt too would help no-one, and then I would go out, and try and help ...
hopefuly I will never have to find out what I would do ...
Alice, 21
Winchester UK
I think I'd be exiting the room. It's not
like there's another way out and you can't be found. I believe it is in me to help when I
have to. I think that's an 'I have to' situation.
Firelady, 23
Dallas, TX
USA
Naturally, I'd like to think I would go out
and help, but until I was faced with the actual situation, I could not really predict what
my reaction would be.
Jane, 60
West Linn, OR
USA
Best friend calling for help? I'd try to get
to him in a New York minute. Not because it's the 'right' thing to do ... or even a
'brave' thing to do; it would be to me the only thing to do.
Fisch, 46
Preston, CT
USA
I'd prolly go out and help-my best friend is
more important than life itself to me.
Angela, 17
Bella Vista, AR USA
Wow that is a really creative
question! Call me crazy, but I would go out and help. I
couldn't have that on my concience.
Dianne, 17
Ontario CANADA
I would go outside and help my friend
Melodi, 19
Gahanna, OH
USA
It wouldn't have to be my best friend
calling for help. I'd go to help a total stranger or a friend. I'd give lie to my faith if
weren't ready to die for another person.
Laura, 36
Lowell, MA
USA
I'm sure my instinctual response would be to
hide, but I certainly hope that I'd have the moral fortitude to help my friend. I know for
sure if I didn't, I would spend the rest of my life regretting it.
Eric, 19
Beverly Hills, CA USA
I can't answer in the abstract--there are
far too many variables.
Jill, 60
Saylorsburg, PA USA
Probably. Not particularly out of
bravery or love, just because I'd be too thick for it to occur to me that I was in danger.
Johanna, 18
OK USA
I would definetely go out and help my
friend. If I did stay in the rest room and something happened to my friend, I would never
forgive myself.
Becky, 16
AUSTRALIA
I'd go out to help my friend. But I'd make
sure my fly was up before I left the restroom. That could be embarrassing.
Ryan, 28
Riedlingen GERMANY
Absolutely, without a doubt.
Ry, 23
Go out and
help...no doubt about it!
Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA
If my best friend were out there
calling for help, I'd be there in front of the bullets
for him.
Karen, 22
Marshalltown/Ames, IA USA
I would help. I would not be able to live
with myself if I didn't help.
Celeste
I think it's generally a good idea not to
walk into the path of gunfire.
Alias Irrelevante
i would help my friend and not just hide
like a coward, but that's just me.
Patty
I'd like to think I would go out and help. I
think that I would need more info though. Do the shots sound like they came from near my
friend or somewhere else? Can I look out in the hall without being seen? I would
want to help - but I would not want to commit suicide. I would want a better assessment of
the situation.
Deb
The thing to do in this situation is
to remember that if you are hurt, you can't help anyone
else. So, here's what you do. Open the door just a crack. Look out. Is the shooter looking
in your direction? Jump back in and hide! Now they know there's somebody in there and
you're screwed. But if the shooter is not looking at you, then, lie down on the floor.
Stick your head and shoulders out. Play dead. Whenever the shooter is not looking, slither
an inch or so out of the restroom. They will not be looking at the bodies on te floor,
they'll be keeping an eye out for people walking or running...
Theresa W., 23
Raleigh, NC
USA
If I
heard shots from anywhere, I wouldn't go to the wounded and help becuse I wouldn't know
what to do and risk myself getting hurt or killed in the process. I would stay until I
felt it was safe and call 911. It may seem cowardess but I don't know how to care for
someone injured. Only thing I could do is comfort them until help came but I can't do that
if I'm hurt or killed.
Stephanie, 25
TX USA
My husband is my best friend and if
I heard him calling for help, I would bust my butt
getting to him, no matter the consequences.
Reba, 51+
Silver Spring, MD USA
Definitely. I've always had more concern for
others safety than my own.
Jennifer, 19
Wilkes-Barre, PA USA
I
definetly would do the best I could to help. Even if it meant having to sneak up behind
the gunman (if the is one standing out there) and knocking him down.
Ivan, 20
Spotsylvania, VA USA
I would escape through the window in the
bathroom and use my cell phone to call 911. If there wasn't a window in the bathroom, I'd
sit my ass down on the toilet, feet up, and call 911 from there. If I had a pen and paper
with me, I'd write OUT OF ORDER and stick it to the door with the tape left there from the
last OUT OF ORDER sign..or PARTY AT BOB'S sign, or whatever. Or used chewing gum
revitalized by tap water. Or whatever weird junk I happen to have in my purse at the time.
Kristin, 20
IA USA
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