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Tangentially related: There's an excellent documentary from BBC about a hospital during London's Westminster's bridge terrorist attack. They were there to shoot
by mavidser 8y ago
Tangentially related: There's an excellent documentary from BBC about a hospital during London's Westminster's bridge terrorist attack. They were there to shoot a planned documentary when the attack happened. Not anywhere at this scale, but it gives a pretty good behind-the-scenes look at the doctors and hospital staff preparing for the victims of a mass-causality incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjUNZSajuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjUNZSajuE
- netsharc 8y agoDid they say, somewhat tragically, that they were getting experience handling such mass casualty incidents due to the number of attacks happening in 2017?
- orf 8y agoI doubt it, but I'm sure their experience with such events pales in comparison to the doctors treating the injured from the 307 mass shootings that happened in the USA that same year.
- endtime 8y agoFYI, that number is probably at least an order of magnitude too high: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
- aaron695 8y agoThere's around one a day. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/02/america-mass-shootings-gun-violence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/...
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- kevinmchugh 8y agoThe NPR article you've linked seems to be about shootings in schools, not mass shootings, which can take place outside of schools.
- hfdgiutdryg 8y agoFWIW, "mass shooting" isn't really defined and can be anything from Columbine to a gang scuffle of four people where nobody died. https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/oct/04/mass-shooting-what-does-it-mean/ https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/oct/04/ma...
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- willyt 8y agoBah those IS dudes are total amateurs. Check out what the IRA and UVF were able to achieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Chronological_listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Chronological_lis...
- slededit 8y agoA domestic insurgency will always be more effective than an outside group.
- walshemj 8y agoAs someone also says the experiences in the troubles in NI and the UK fed into this. Also the UK does has done civil contingency planning /gaming since ww2.