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This video has several aspects of value...

1) The lesson about how the types of training most CHL's do at a square range only slightly prepare us.
a) most people don't practice their draw
b) Most don't practice "point and shoot" but focus on using their sights and trying to make small groups like you do with a hunting rifle
c) most don't practice shooting from cover/concealment or even considering cover/concealment before shooting
2) Our tunnel vision and our lack of fine motor skills disappearing.
This is fact and we tend to forget this. I know it will happen regardless of how much training I do unless I wanted to spend a lifetime and a fortune training like the military does. So, we should do our best to minimize how this will affect us by practicing our reload, "tap-rack-bang", and other drills that teach us to use gross motor skills more than fine motor skills. (i.e. don't use the slide catch to drop the slide on a new magazine). Also, I think there's value in visualizing being in theses scenarios often in your mind. Just thinking ahead of time what you'd do often. I can't say for sure, but I believe it could help affect your reaction when/if the time actually comes.
I do this even when at a restaurant or public place and consider the unlikely event of a robbery or mad-gunmen scenario.

3) TRAIN!! TRAIN! TRAIN!!

and lastly...
4) TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN

The over-all intent of the video is disgusting however. They try and paint the 'gun' and the person carrying a gun as worthless or even deadly. And as Hearty Patriot said, they make it way too black and white. I was thinking, "Yeah, that CHL-r may now be dead, but the bad guy is now wounded and using more rounds on one person vs. the whole room. He/She was also buying time for the others to leave. In a VA Tech scenario, that's a 'win'.
The video failed to show that same scenario where NOBODY in the room was armed. How many died then vs. the scenario where there's someone fighting back?
Obviously, in all cases, it's better to have someone in the room who can provide resistance. Of course someone is going to die. That's horrible, but it's the result of a mad man going on a spree, not someone being armed and trying to protect themselves and others. Showing these in a vacuum without other scenarios is typical of the 'journalists' trying to get their agenda across.

One thing through this video, I tried to envision how I would react... impossible to do perfectly I know, but just based on the limited amount of training I do with IDPA, and dry-firing at home, and also shooting at a square range practicing "point shooting". I would like to think that I would take concealment first. (That's definitely not cover because those little tables won't stop a round). But I could also see how it would be natural to react like the one lady and stand, draw, shoot.
If am honest with myself, I think that's what I would do just because that's how I practice. In every practice scenario I do, it's me making the first move. (i.e. IDPA - grab your gun (or draw), move here and engage x,y,z targets)
I also do my draw and dry firing while standing in front of a target. Maybe I should change that up to moving to cover and dry firing?
We as civilians don't get a lot of opportunity to practice reactionary training.

I think my next training course will be a 'force on force' class, so I can start thinking about how to react vs. just plain 'engaging'.