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Know Your Exits Save Your Life in an Active Shooter Event

Know your exits! This is a valuable thing to know during an emergency. Too often, most people try to exit out the entrance they came in during emergencies, and this often prooves fatal. Airline disasters and club fires both illustrate this point. Knowing nearest and alternate exits has saved people’s lives.

Many people teach to be aware. It’s true, situational awareness is very important for your safety. It is one of the most important things for your safey. But what should you be aware of? There are a number of things you should notice, and one key thing is to know the escape routes and the ways out of wherever you are. Know your exits!

Here is a video I recorded live on Facebook regarding this topic.

Active Shooter: Know Your Exits Video


Make it a game. Get your kids involved too. Teach them to always know the way out of wherever you are. Here is a short video I filmed in a mall discussing the importance of knowing exits and how many people won’t think of the exits going out the back of stores because we don’t normally use those exits. In an emergency, you can use them, and that just might save your life.

I hope these videos get across the importance of knowing how to get out of anyplace you are. You don’t have to dwell on it, just be aware of the ways out in case you need to exit quickly to save your life or that of others. Like I said above, you can make a game of it to help get used to recognizing the ways out. Make it fun for your kids and they will be learning a life saving skill without even knowing it.

Like I always say, I sincerely hope you never need to know where the emergency exits and alternate ways out are. But if you do, I sure hope you have been aware. I want you to be a survivor.

Movement Saves Lives! Active Shooter Response

Movement Saves Lives!

There is a reason “Move!” is in the center of the Active Shooter Triangle used in the Survive a Shooting course and featured on the Survive a Shooting posters. (See them over in the right sidebar.)

In an active shooter situation, you must do something immediately. You must move! When the adrenaline rush hits, people go into the fight or flight response, but there is another “f” and that is freeze. We can’t afford to freeze in such situations. Remembering to breathe, having a plan, and prior training are all important to reduce or prevent this freeze reaction. Freezing and remaining motionless can mean death. Movement can save your life.

What Movement Saves Lives?

Any movement is better than freezing, but what you do will be determined by your location to the shooter and your environment. You can escape, which could be running away or going out a window. You might move quickly to lock and barricade the door to deny the shooter access to you by keeping him out. If the shooter is right there, your best option my be to attack back and take him out. You attack back with anything available. If you are armed, use what you have. If unarmed, grab an improvised weapon or just use the tools you were born with by tackling the shooter and pounding his head into the floor with hammer fists. What you do is sometimes not as important as doing something. In almost every situation, doing something is going to be better than doing nothing.

I remember when a report came out regarding a plan to throw cans at an armed intruder if he came into a classroom. Some people were quick to criticize this. I’m not going to criticize it, because it’s better than not moving! Creating chaos and movement make it extremely difficult to shoot someone. Being hit with cans is going to mess up the killer’s OODA Loop and make it difficult to focus on his original task. This can create the opening to then tackle and take out the shooter. This is a lot better than jumping under desks to hide and hope.

Bottom Line

Movement saves lives, so move. Do something. Escape, deny, or attack back. I’m always ecstatic when people in my classes say, “I never thought of that, but I could do it if I had to…” That is what the Survive a Shooting course (read review) is all about. It provides people with options to increase their chances of surviving. Moving is key. Movement saves lives!

Movement Saves Lives – FaceBook Live video recorded 8/1/17

Active Shooter Court Rulings

Recent active shooter court rulings throughout the country have allowed negligence suits filed by victims of Active Shooters to proceed against employers for failing to provide defensive training to their employees.  In other words, companies can no longer avoid their corporate responsibility to provide training on both how to spot potential active shooters and on how react if so confronted.

One of the allegations in the lawsuit against the town of Newtown and the Newtown Board of Education was lack of training. The lawsuit also alleges the town and school board were negligent in not having a more secure entrance to the school because it did not have bulletproof glass on the front windows and for having classroom doors that couldn’t be locked from the inside. (All things covered in the Survive a Shooting course.)

The 66-page lawsuit filed after the terrible Sandy Hook shooting lists a variety of reasons why the plaintiffs consider the school system to have been negligent, resulting in the many deaths there.

According to the lawsuit, school officials failed to provide the school with classroom doors that could be locked from the inside, thereby making the “lockdown” aspect of that school’s safety procedures virtually impossible to follow.

The lawsuit also alleges that school officials failed to sufficiently train and supervise the staff on the proper way to implement lockdown and evacuation plans. Classrooms in the school could only be locked from the outside with a key, in violation of state law, it alleges.

https://newtownbee.com/settlement-offers-made-in-sandy-hook-school-lawsuit/

According to an article by James Cameron, CPP,  recent active shooter court rulings relative to liability lawsuits have shown active shooter scenarios are now considered a “recognizable hazard” to employees.

One of the regulations under the Occupational Safety & Health Administration Section OSHA of the United States Department of Labor *General Duty Clause, Section 5 (a)(1) states, “Each employer shall furnish to each of his/her employees, employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his/her employees”.

Example from Cameron of recent active shooter court rulings:

In a July 2, 2013 court decision from Hennepin County, Minneapolis, MN, the court found fault with the employer for negligence and failing to train their employees.  District Court Judge Denise Reilly allowed two negligence counts to proceed against the company, Accent Signage.  The civil case was brought before the courts by the victims’ family members in response to an active shooter incident at a place of business.

This incident occurred as the gunman, Andrew Engeldinger, walked into his place of employment on September 27, 2012 with a pistol.  Once inside, Engeldinger shot and killed numerous individuals before taking his own life. Court rulings like the one above places the liability on the employer to train their employees to recognize the indicators of the potential active shooter and how to respond when they are faced with an actual active shooter incident.

The charges basically follow the OSHA guidelines set forth under the “General Duty Clause” that the employer needed to make training available and reasonable safeguards to be put in place. One of the victims, Beneke’s family sued the Accent Signage and Engeldinger’s estate in February. Releasing the shooters estate from liability and holding the company responsible is a new shift in thoughts regarding pre-planning and prevention. Engeldinger shot and killed Beneke, and four other employees and co-workers along with a UPS deliveryman before committing suicide on September 27, 2012.

This case has now settled for an undisclosed amount of money by Accent Signage to the Beneke family.

Settlement Reached In Accent Signage Shooting Suit

Train Employees

Based on these recent active shooter court rulings, and OSHA recommendations, employers should implement training and notification programs/systems to educate employees on the known risks for workplace violence and the steps that can be taken by employees to minimize the potential for workplace violence. This includes being trained on how to effectively respond to workplace emergencies to include active shooter situations.

Read this review of the Survive A Shooting course.

Never Fight Back? What are You On?

Never fight back? What are you on? Every time I hear this I yell and scream at the television and the person saying it. (Okay, that’s a little exaggeration, but not much.)

Here is a paragraph from the Survive A Shooting book I’m working on that prompted me to write this blog:

There are some out there that teach that you should never attack back. (They usually refer to “fight” from the “Run – Hide – Fight” model.) Never fight? I’ve seen them on television spouting off this nonsense with the word “expert” after their name. I vehemently disagree with this this so-called expert advice to never fight back. I just told you there is evidence that armed and unarmed civilians have stopped active shooters. The scum that are killing innocent people are cowards and they want victims that won’t fight back. Surprise them and send them to their maker sooner than they anticipated without the body count they wanted.

The part where I say, I just told you…, refers to earlier in the chapter where I wrote about both the statistics from the FBI, and watching the news, that show armed and unarmed civilians have stopped active shooters. This proves that the things I’m writing about in the book, and the things I teach in the Survive A Shooting course save lives. This includes Attacking Back!

Never fight? Ridiculous! If escaping and denying access to you are not options, you must attack back with everything you have. If armed, great. If not, arm yourself with anything available. If no improvised weapons are available you either aren’t being creative enough or you are someplace pretty barren and remote. But you still have your body, so attack back with what you have. Never just be a victim.

I agree that escaping and denying access by locking down and barricading are preferred options to physically confronting an active shooter, especially if you are not armed with a firearm yourself. Unfortunately, we don’t always get our preferred options. I’d prefer that no one ever started shooting innocent people again, but sadly I don’t think that will be the case either.

Never fight? Not hardly. Attacking Back is the ONLY acceptable option in some situations. It’s that or die a victim, and to me that’s not an option. If I am going to die, I’m going to go out doing everything I can to stop the killer or at least take him with me. I hope you have that attitude too.

 

 

 

 

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The Survive A Shooting Blog focuses on not only how to survive a shooting, but how to survive the active threats that face people today. This obviously includes active shooters, but also those who threated others with knives, clubs, vehicles, and even explosives.

This is a sister site to Survive and Defend, which focuses on all things related to safety and self-defense. I wanted this site and blog a little more focused to go along with the Survive a Shooting course and upcoming book. The two sites will work together to bring you the best information to stay safe and survive active threats.

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