How should kids react in a school shooting?

[Rhyfelwyr]

The kids would have to have some serious mental discipline if they were to pull if off. It's tragic, but there's really very little that can be done when you're in those kinds of situations.

[HoreTore]

The best self defense ever: not being in the situation in the first place.

Second best: Run away. Fast.

See? I still remember the combat training I learned in the army....

[Rhyfelwyr]

So kids should play truant to aviod school shootings?

[Fragony]

These guys have made up their mind, run. Which should be pretty obvious. But why make a trend out of incidents, horrible as they may be, that is just inviting the next crybaby.

[Husar]

Well, some 60 years ago soldiers were trained to run up an almost empty beach protected by fortified bunkers at the top to solve a problem, maybe they thought it is time to go back to the old way of solving violent problems.
In the end it all depends on the situation, like a bunker is vulnerable from behind, a gunman is usually vulnerable when he enters through a door, but in most cases you are likely to end up dead if you cannot use the element of surprise to your advantage.
In both cases the best solution is to prevent the problem in it's early stages, which so far hasn't happened often.