Police are showing people how to protect themselves before they become victims during a two-hour workshop called "Active Threat, How to React."
The people who packed into the Daytona Beach Police conference room Thursday night were from different walks of life. But they shared one common need: how to protect themselves inside churches, movie theatres, schools and other places people gather, anywhere a possible shooter is looking for victims.
The workshop comes after mass casualty shootings across the nation.
"We live in a very, very racially-charged society. We live in a society where fringe members who are extremely charged and full of hatred and we live in a society where mentally ill people are out walking the streets every day in possession of firearms," said Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood.
"You're not safe, you're not safe, and we as a people need to know how to respond in the event that there is an active shooter," said NAACP president Cynthia Slater.
People learned what to do inside a place where they would normally feel safe, how to look for exits and how to look for threats.
Once the threat is identified, people need to know what to do next: run, hide or fight.
Some Daytona Beach area churches started arming their clergy after the Charleston church shooting where nine people died.
Daytona Beach police want people to have a plan so they can survive, if the worst happens.
"Ten people throwing a chair at the gunman may be how the gunman gets stopped. Because the other thing that statistics show is law enforcement very rarely arrive in time to stop the threat," said Chitwood.
"Because of the times in which we live, everybody's gotta be aware" said Reverend John Long.