When You’re Running for Your Life, You Won’t Open SOS — and After You’re Shot, You Definitely Can’t:What a California Mall Shooting Says About “Can People Still Operate Their Phones?”

On Black Friday, a shooting at California’s Westfield Valley Fair mall sent crowds running and hiding behind locked shop gates. This article doesn’t teach “how to press SOS” — it explains why, in real emergencies, people rarely have the ability to operate their phones, and why we need systems that can automatically alert trusted contacts when we can’t.





