Active Shooter Incidents

As sad as this is to say we have discussed what we can do during a shooting several times since I started posted ideas or thoughts here. Again there has been an incident, again innocent people have died and others have been wounded. I could be writing about other things but I feel this is very important and will spend some time on this subject. Honestly I can not write anything new, we have kind of covered the subject to many times already. I have tried to post links to the other articles on here about the subject and I hope people take the time to read or re-read what is there.

Over the last few days I have been involved in several conversations about the shooting in San Bernardino. There really is nothing new to add.... If you are caught in one of these situations you have three choices;

RUN - get out of the area
HIDE - find a location and conceal/barricade yourself
FIGHT - take out the threat



Here is an except from a prior posting;

"If you are not directly threatened by the gunman, leave. Just leave the area! Do not try to see what is going on, take pictures or otherwise put yourself or others in harm's way. Leave!! This should be your first reaction if you can. Let someone else have the story to tell about how cool or scary the situation was at the next party. You just take your butt home and be safe!!"

I can not stress this enough RUN, JUST RUN! GET OUT OF THE AREA! Leave and live to fight another day! Do not be there and they can not harm you!


"Should you not be able to leave and you are in danger from the gunman seek "COVER"! What is cover? Cover is anything which will stop a bullet. What will stop a bullet? Not what you see on TV or in the movies!! Think more along the lines of what would stop a garbage truck from running you over. Better yet, think what you would want between your loved ones and a runaway truck!

"Glass, car doors, plants, internal walls, filing cabinets, pressboard desk, computer screens and almost everything you see stop bullets on TV DOES NOT STOP BULLETS in real life. Lightly constructed buildings do not stop bullets. Bullets will go through all of these things.

"Cement, bricks, thick steel, boulders, large thick trees and other dense objects stop or deflect bullets. When soldiers build sandbag walls they are at least three sandbags deep, this is about 2 -3 feet wide. Try to find something thick enough to stop a truck.

"The more items between you and the gunman the better. If the gunman has to fire through a door, through a filing cabinet and a desk before you can be hit this increases your chances of survival. In this case some "cover" is better than none."

Bullets do not act they way you see them act on TV or the movies. When they hit things they also cause pieces of what they hit to fly. Bullets bounce, come apart and these pieces can hurt you.

"Concealment is your next option. Anything which keeps the gunman from seeing you is concealment. Remember, concealment is not cover!! Just because the gunman can not see you does not mean you can not be shot!! Bullets go through most things people will try to hide behind. Ideally you want to find a position of cover and concealment. Cover comes first!!!

"If you barricade yourself somewhere let someone know you are there. Call 911, wave out a window or maybe hang something out the window. Letting the authorities know where you are will help them to help you. Remember if you barricade a door bullets can still come through the door!"

Please take a moment and read the prior post, share the posts because you never know who might read them and if the information might help them some day..............












As Always,

Stay Safe!!!