Chicago Aviation Officer Active Shooter Plan: Run and Hide!

By Dan Zimmerman

By Brandon via concealednation.org

Filed under ‘things we will never understand’, a reader sent us the above news clip that discusses the day in a life of an aviation officer at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports. The recipe: sworn law enforcement officers who can’t carry firearms and are told to run and hide in the event of an active shooter situation or terrorist attack . . .

It’s seemingly the only location in the country where aviation officers are unarmed, making it even more ironic since it’s one of the busiest airports in the world.

O’Hare’s aviation officers are trained just as Chicago police are, meaning they are sworn officers, and all they want is to be allowed to carry a firearm just as any other law enforcement officer does. So in the event of any type of attack at either of Chicago’s airports, 300 Aviation Officers would be defenseless. That’s just not right.

Two of these aviation officers spoke with CNN in silhouette because they feared they would lose their jobs after speaking out. They tell the reporter that their training instructs them to run and hide because, after all, what else are they …Read the Rest

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