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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

‘America is broken’: FBI criticized for mass-shooting survival video

It’s exceedingly rare for civilians to stop mass shootings, despite the FBI video urging people to fight armed assailants as a last resort.
It’s exceedingly rare for civilians to stop mass shootings, despite the FBI video urging people to fight armed assailants as a last resort. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

A newly resurfaced FBI video purportedly training Americans to give themselves their best chance of surviving a deadly mass shooting is drawing scorn across the US and abroad.

In the video, released in 2020 by the US’s top law enforcement agency, actors portraying everyday Americans explain to viewers ways in which they could at least survive – or, preferably, even stop – a mass shooting once the bullets start flying.

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