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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.

 

 

 

 

Active Shooter Response on Live with Renk Show

This is the interview I did earlier today on the Live with Renk Show. The show is on WBCK 95.3 in Battle Creek, MI. We discussed the Active Shooter event in Washington DC yesterday where Congressman Steve Scalise and three others were shot while practicing for the fund raising baseball game.

 

 

 

Live with Renk

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Workplace shootings, like Orlando, on the rise in U.S.

Government statistics show that fatal workplace shootings, like happened in Orland today, are on the rise.

In a report by Laurie Kellman, associated press, Kellman states:

“Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive, experts say. Reports of workplace violence are quick to spread across social media. ‘It really all boils down pretty much to the same issues: A person wants to feel that they have more control, they want to have more power,’ said threat assessment expert Michael Corcoran. ‘What are seeing when this happens is it gets played up more, so they say, ‘Ah OK, that’s an alternative.” What has changed in recent years is the willingness of employers to set up systems to monitor people who might be threats, experts said.”

One of the things I discuss in my Survive a Shooting course is a threat assessment team, and how organizations can set up systems to monitor people that might be a threat. This is an important “before” step. Ideally, we prevent these workplace shootings rather than react to them.

Kellman also reported:

“Identifying people with ‘concerning behavior’ is key for virtually any company, experts said. That means setting up an ‘interdisciplinary threat assessment team’ of company managers and, sometimes, local law enforcement, to look at and perhaps track workers who were terminated or suspended, said Matthew W. Doherty, senior vice president for threat and violence risk management at Hillard Heintze.”

Times are changing, and sadly, some not for the better. I do not know why there is an increase in workplace shootings, but I do know that hiding under a desk and hoping is not a plan for survival. There are things that can be done before, during, and after and incident to decrease the body count these sick individuals are after. This site, and the Survive a Shooting course, are designed to help you do just that.

Review of Active Shooter: Events and Response

Active Shooter: Events and Response is written by members of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University: J. Pete Blair, Terry Nichols, David Burns, and John R. Curnutt. I am familiar with this group because a few of the law enforcement officers of our training group know these authors, and in the Acknowledgments, Marcus “Sandy” Wall is thanked for helping introduce the training methodology and curriculum that became the ALERRT program. I mention this because Sandy Wall was one of the instructors who taught the Safariland Trainer Course “Emergency Response to an Armed Intruder” that I attended.

Since I’ve been studying active shooter events, and teaching courses on responses to active shooters, I started reading this book with more knowledge than many readers. I found the book to be well organized, on-point, and a great resource for my own writing and teaching on the subject. I will point out that the courses I teach are for civilians, many teachers and school employees, and this book has a large portion on law enforcement response and tactics. However, there are chapters on civilian responses to active shooters that mirrors the classes we teach.

Here is what this book covers chapter by chapter:

  1. Historical Perspective of Active Shooter Events. This is a good introduction to the topic, and explains why law enforcement have new paradigms in crisis decision making and different tactics for these increasing events.
  2. Increased Complexity of Events. Good discussion on active shooter and terrorist active shooter threats that includes a look at events in Beslan, Russia; Mumbai, India; Norway; and Mexico.
  3. Active Shooter Events in the United States from 2000 to 2010. Good break down and analysis of Active Shooter Events in this ten year period. The most alarming statistic is the upward trend of these horrific events.
  4. Preparing for the Event. This chapter explains the main goals of law enforcement officers: Stop the killing, and then stop the dying. This is important to know. Law enforcement cannot stop to help with the injured until the threat has been neutralized. This chapter also discusses the concept of principle-based training and the mindset of first responders. It concludes with a little about equipment.
  5. En Route and Actions Outside the Building. Priorities of work, teams, cover, approaching, and breaching are some of the topics in this chapter.
  6. Entry and Confronting the Threat. This chapter focuses on principles of team movement, communication, tactics, room entry, IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices)and threshold evaluation.
  7. Postengagement Priorities of Work. Security, Immediate Action Plan, Medical, and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care are a few of the topics covered in this chapter.
  8. Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events. This chapter was most relevant to the teaching I do with school and business employees. The chapter addresses concepts of disaster response such as Denial, Deliberation, Decisive Moment, and Stress. They then explain their ADD formula: Avoid, Deny, Defend. This is the same as the Federal Run, Hide, Fight, Safariland’s Run, Lock, Fight, and my Escape, Deny, Attack Back. These are just different names for the same response concepts. The book also includes a little on what to expect when the police arrive and a little on developing a policy for response to active shooter events.

The book then concludes with an Appendix that contains brief summaries of all of the Active Shooter Events from 2000 to 2010. These are the events that are included in the chapter with the break down and analysis.

I found Active Shooter: Events and Response to be a very good book on the topic. It is a very good reference for my writing and teaching, and I feel it would be a good read for all law enforcement as well as civilians wanting to know more about what both law enforcement is doing in response to these events and what they can do if ever faced with such an unthinkable situation.

Knowledge is power, and this book provides knowledge on the history of active shooter events and what can be done to address this increasing threat. I wish a book like this wasn’t necessary, but in the times we live in, I’m glad this book is available to provide the information to those of us in the good fight. Train and prepare before one of these situations occurs in your hometown, and may you never need your training. Stay safe.

Active Shooter: Events and Response at amazon:

The Survive A Shooting Blog

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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