Run/Hide/Fight Shooter Safety Video

[fureverywhere]

WARNING-INTENSE

https://www.yahoo.com/health/what-you-should-do-in-1316345553666102.html
But very well done. And no the answer isn't playing John Wayne...dang I forgot to pack my piece today. Seriously though, it's something I used to think about at work. Where are the exits? The most secure walls? If you do get out of the exits then what? Flee in your car? On foot if you can't get to your car? In an actual situation you'd have to decide in an instant. Scary world sometimes

 

[WhatInThe]

It's a chance. Not a great chance but a better chance than letting a perceived fate become a reality.

I think some call it situational awareness. One should always think in detail about the various scenarios they might come across in life. Make the perpetrator of a dangerous criminal act work for it.

 

[imp]

It's a chance. Not a great chance but a better chance than letting a perceived fate become a reality.

I think some call it situational awareness. One should always think in detail about the various scenarios they might come across in life. Make the perpetrator of a dangerous criminal act work for it.

These ideas were thoroughly discussed in the several self-defense oriented books I read years ago. The primary authors are Massad Ayoob and Bill Jordan, whose book was "No Second Place Winner". Ayoob had been a cop in New Hampshire, I think it was, and became world renowned for providing expert testimony in criminal cases and writing in a great variety of publications.

I believe their thoughts are included in police "basic training". A cop always has a wall at his back, if possible. Can't blame him. imp

 

[Shalimar]

Not just cops, Imp. To this day in a public place I always do a quick Doberman eyeflick, wall at my six and so forth, anything that looks/feels out of place? If I am seated in a restaurant etc. I never sit with my back to the door. Not aware of feeling paranoid--after so many years it is just habitual--like looking both ways before crossing the street.

 

[AZ Jim]

Not just cops, Imp. To this day in a public place I always do a quick Doberman eyeflick, wall at my six and so forth, anything that looks/feels out of place? If I am seated in a restaurant etc. I never sit with my back to the door. Not aware of feeling paranoid--after so many years it is just habitual--like looking both ways before crossing the street.

Isn't isn't it a damn shame we have to feel unsafe outside the safety of our own homes (and that's no guarantee) in a world that has had plenty of time to figure out how to live with one another without violence?

 

[Shalimar]

It is a shame, though to be fair, most Canadians do not react as I do. Thankfully the experiences that formed my awareness/vigilance were/are not the norm. At least now, increasing transparency around some dangers are working toward

shining light on various evils hidden and largely protected for untold generations. Exposure is among first steps toward working toward a less violent society.

 

[fureverywhere]

In the video I would be the one pulling everybody out the door...then the one crying hysterically when we're finally outside. I forgot though how jarring the sound of gunfire is. The store I used to work at was right next to the county firing range. The customers used to jump but hearing it all day you learned to tune it out. The shelter we dropped stuff off for is next to the range too. Probably why Callie is so bomb proof, the poor animals either go crazy or learn to tune it out too.

But just being in the lot last night hearing the POPPOP POP POPPOPPOP POP all around us. In a shooting situation that sound would make you wet yourself.

 

[Warrigal]

Not just cops, Imp. To this day in a public place I always do a quick Doberman eyeflick, wall at my six and so forth, anything that looks/feels out of place? If I am seated in a restaurant etc. I never sit with my back to the door. Not aware of feeling paranoid--after so many years it is just habitual--like looking both ways before crossing the street.

I just note the fire exits in a movie theatre - in case of fire, not gunfire.

 

[SeaBreeze]

The video is just common sense, like WhatInThe said, being aware in any situation is key and has been practice my many for a long time, long before these "terrorist" scares came about. Of course ideally, someone with a concealed carry would take down the gunman before any more innocents were killed.