This is a cut/past I got in a e-mail, it's a excellent excellent guide...and one that could save your life...
Look at the shooting in Vegas and learn from it...what to do and what not to do....take the bad and make something good come from it...
With the prolific spread of the concealed carry culture, there is a trend for the good guy to be on scene. So this is my advice to the armed CCW that may happen to be on scene, and decides to engage the bad guys.
1). If you are there with your family, or other loved ones, see to their safety first. It may sound harsh and selfish, but I don't think you intend to trade the life of your child for that of a stranger. It is not cowardly to run away with your family to keep them alive and safe.
2). If your family is safe, or you are alone, you can certainly engage. But like the gunfight philosopher Dirty Harry Callahan once said, "A man's got to know his limitations". The presence of that new Glock or the Kel-Tec, or whatever means nothing without skill and will.
3). Engaging in the context of the active shooter means simply bringing your gun to bear and killing them. This is not the time for challenges, commands, or any sort of dialog. They are condemned by their actions. If you have not come to terms with doing that very thing...pointing in on the back of the bad guy's head and blowing his eyes right through the front of his skull without uttering a word, then simply don't engage.
4). One thing I recall from the old days is that there is always a back-up. In SWAT, we would never enter a room alone. When going intently into harm's way we always sought to bring another with us. There is safety in numbers. The bad guys are not stupid and do this as well. So look for the second man, before and after.
5). Identify the second man by their actions. What would most people do when there is a mad man shooting into the crowd? They tend to run away from the danger. Those that freeze in terror tend to be fixated on the gunman with wide eyes and open mouths. A layoff man will not be doing that but rather be focused on the actions of everyone else...your specially if you are too overt in your draw and announcing of intentions.
6). This is not the shooting range where you stand tall and proud in your weaver/isosceles shooting position. This is not defensive shooting, or reactive shooting. This is an ambush that you are pulling off. Use cover. Hide and protect yourself...then shoot them in the back from cover.
7). I will bet that J-Frame or that .32 is a dream to carry. I will bet you even forget its there as you move through your day. But when you find yourself in one of these events, you will yearn for the Glock 19 and spare magazines. Everyday...if you are serious about protecting your world, dress for battle as if today was the day you will face the spawn of evil intent on the death of innocents. If you do not carry the correct tools, all the good intentions will amount to nothing.
8). Although it has not become very common yet...here, understand that a wounded bad guy can easily detonate a self-improvised-explosive-device before expiring, and killing anyone your actions may have saved. My counter terrorist friends around the world make it a practice to punctuate their demise with an additional three to five rounds into the head. I doubt anyone would have the gall to question it.
9). Stopping the active shooter is about killing, and killing is simple. Ask a killer what works best. He will say the simple way works best. Why do non-killers want to complicate this with warnings and fear of liability and all manner of non-issues?? The active shooter has already given you license to do anything you wish based on his own initiative. Draw the gun, point it, and shoot them to the ground.
Look at the shooting in Vegas and learn from it...what to do and what not to do....take the bad and make something good come from it...
With the prolific spread of the concealed carry culture, there is a trend for the good guy to be on scene. So this is my advice to the armed CCW that may happen to be on scene, and decides to engage the bad guys.
1). If you are there with your family, or other loved ones, see to their safety first. It may sound harsh and selfish, but I don't think you intend to trade the life of your child for that of a stranger. It is not cowardly to run away with your family to keep them alive and safe.
2). If your family is safe, or you are alone, you can certainly engage. But like the gunfight philosopher Dirty Harry Callahan once said, "A man's got to know his limitations". The presence of that new Glock or the Kel-Tec, or whatever means nothing without skill and will.
3). Engaging in the context of the active shooter means simply bringing your gun to bear and killing them. This is not the time for challenges, commands, or any sort of dialog. They are condemned by their actions. If you have not come to terms with doing that very thing...pointing in on the back of the bad guy's head and blowing his eyes right through the front of his skull without uttering a word, then simply don't engage.
4). One thing I recall from the old days is that there is always a back-up. In SWAT, we would never enter a room alone. When going intently into harm's way we always sought to bring another with us. There is safety in numbers. The bad guys are not stupid and do this as well. So look for the second man, before and after.
5). Identify the second man by their actions. What would most people do when there is a mad man shooting into the crowd? They tend to run away from the danger. Those that freeze in terror tend to be fixated on the gunman with wide eyes and open mouths. A layoff man will not be doing that but rather be focused on the actions of everyone else...your specially if you are too overt in your draw and announcing of intentions.
6). This is not the shooting range where you stand tall and proud in your weaver/isosceles shooting position. This is not defensive shooting, or reactive shooting. This is an ambush that you are pulling off. Use cover. Hide and protect yourself...then shoot them in the back from cover.
7). I will bet that J-Frame or that .32 is a dream to carry. I will bet you even forget its there as you move through your day. But when you find yourself in one of these events, you will yearn for the Glock 19 and spare magazines. Everyday...if you are serious about protecting your world, dress for battle as if today was the day you will face the spawn of evil intent on the death of innocents. If you do not carry the correct tools, all the good intentions will amount to nothing.
8). Although it has not become very common yet...here, understand that a wounded bad guy can easily detonate a self-improvised-explosive-device before expiring, and killing anyone your actions may have saved. My counter terrorist friends around the world make it a practice to punctuate their demise with an additional three to five rounds into the head. I doubt anyone would have the gall to question it.
9). Stopping the active shooter is about killing, and killing is simple. Ask a killer what works best. He will say the simple way works best. Why do non-killers want to complicate this with warnings and fear of liability and all manner of non-issues?? The active shooter has already given you license to do anything you wish based on his own initiative. Draw the gun, point it, and shoot them to the ground.
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