You can respond correctly, quickly, and efficiently to an active shooter.
By doing so, you can live to see another day and go home to your loved ones.Americans are responding to the challenge of meeting and defeating these murderers.
Enough active shootings have taken place we know how to take steps to live and avoid steps to die.
I can't cover everything in a blog post, nor can survival be taught in a three hour class.
It is a mind set that must be exercised every day.
That said, with training, you can survive a mass murder event.
Expert Advice Here and Here.
Anglican Pastor: Why I Pack a Pistol for my Parish
I have attended similar training at the Emergency Operations Center in Westminster, MD, at my church St. Michael's in Poplar Springs, MD, at the Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Company and at several other venues.
One was for the librarians in Howard County. Two hundred of them were taught how to respond to an active shooter murderer if they came into the library and started shooting.
That said, with training, you can survive a mass murder event.
Expert Advice Here and Here.
Anglican Pastor: Why I Pack a Pistol for my Parish
Response to an Active Shooter Training
Recently, I went to a three-hour Response to an Active Shooter training at Calvary United Methodist Church in Mt. Airy, MD.I have attended similar training at the Emergency Operations Center in Westminster, MD, at my church St. Michael's in Poplar Springs, MD, at the Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Company and at several other venues.
One was for the librarians in Howard County. Two hundred of them were taught how to respond to an active shooter murderer if they came into the library and started shooting.
So, training for how to avoid and respond to these murderers is gathering steam.
I started doing research on active shooters and active shootings when a hoax one was called into my son's then high school.
I started doing research on active shooters and active shootings when a hoax one was called into my son's then high school.
You can read about it here.
He emphasized that it takes, on average, three minutes for the police to arrive at an active shooting. (The police arrived in one minute to the Capital Gazette shooting...but the murderer was still able to kill 5 in that minute.)
So Sgt. Hill taught a three hour class class on what to do, and what not to do, in that three minutes.
He explained that you must be ready for the 3-minutes BEFORE the police arrive.
In a word...if you cannot flee...have a plan to bum rush the mass murderer.
As he said, if the biggest, meanest Navy Seal stood in the middle of the gym where the class was held, and if the 340 people in attendance picked up items, threw them at him bum rushed him...numbers favor even the unarmed.
This is a concept I heard years ago from an Israeli intel guy.
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)
Maryland State Police First Sergeant Jon Hill was the instructor for the Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE).He emphasized that it takes, on average, three minutes for the police to arrive at an active shooting. (The police arrived in one minute to the Capital Gazette shooting...but the murderer was still able to kill 5 in that minute.)
So Sgt. Hill taught a three hour class class on what to do, and what not to do, in that three minutes.
He explained that you must be ready for the 3-minutes BEFORE the police arrive.
In a word...if you cannot flee...have a plan to bum rush the mass murderer.
As he said, if the biggest, meanest Navy Seal stood in the middle of the gym where the class was held, and if the 340 people in attendance picked up items, threw them at him bum rushed him...numbers favor even the unarmed.
This is a concept I heard years ago from an Israeli intel guy.
He was shocked how, back then, American children were being taught in public schools to hide and stay quiet.
When a mass murderer burst into an Israeli school, the children were taught to pick up items and throw them at them and take them out.
I'll leave it to you to figure out which approach saves more children's lives.
I include the one-page program below. It is brief but loaded with resources.
When a mass murderer burst into an Israeli school, the children were taught to pick up items and throw them at them and take them out.
I'll leave it to you to figure out which approach saves more children's lives.
I include the one-page program below. It is brief but loaded with resources.
Staying Alive and The Unthinkable are both excellent books on how to prepare.
Note the CAT Tourniquet and Chest Seal medical kit recommendation at the bottom of the the one-page training sheet above.
They know and I know that CAT Tourniquet's save lives.
The best ones have been tested in Afghanistan and Iraq/Syria and are made and sold by North American Rescue.
CAT Tourniquet's should be in your everyday carry (EDC) kit.
Keep one in your car, too.
So many lives have been saved due to a tourniquet being applied and therefore, the person has not bled out and died.
Don't listen to the dolts who say, "Oh, you just need a belt." Get a CAT.
Lightweight Armour plating is available for your backpack or briefcase.
CAT Tourniquet and Lightweight Armour Plating
Two of the most important items you can purchase to survive are a CAT Tourniquet and Lightweight Amour plating for your (and your children's) backpack(s) or briefcase(s).Note the CAT Tourniquet and Chest Seal medical kit recommendation at the bottom of the the one-page training sheet above.
They know and I know that CAT Tourniquet's save lives.
The best ones have been tested in Afghanistan and Iraq/Syria and are made and sold by North American Rescue.
CAT Tourniquet's should be in your everyday carry (EDC) kit.
Keep one in your car, too.
So many lives have been saved due to a tourniquet being applied and therefore, the person has not bled out and died.
Don't listen to the dolts who say, "Oh, you just need a belt." Get a CAT.
Lightweight Armour plating is available for your backpack or briefcase.
You can stand behind it and use it as a protective barrier when you rush the active shooter (murderer).
CRYE Precision in Brooklyn, NY makes a good one that I use.
From getting jumped by gangs for my paper route collection money in grade school to being attacked by 15 criminals with baseball bats while a crowd of 40 cheered them on in Georgetown, Washington DC to being jumped in Place Pigale in Paris by three guys with a knife to multiple other "situations" here and abroad, what saved my life was being aware that it was REAL.
People die or are injured everyday because they fail to realize that the situation is REAL.
Just look up the "knockout" game in YouTube for proof.
For example, when the gang in DC brought down the baseball bats on my head, through the blood and sweat I said "THIS IS REAL AND THEY WANT TO KILL ME!"
I grew up in North Philadelphia and had been jumped so I flashed back, in nanoseconds, to that reality as they kept assaulting me.
I made a quick and vital decision.
I saw my wife and son (then a toddler...now 33 with his own baby) in my mind's eye through all the blood, pain, and sweat.
For those first minutes, I said a quick prayer and then I went insane.
Act FAST to Save Your Life
I am alive today because in a variety of situations where others tried to kill me I acted...fast.From getting jumped by gangs for my paper route collection money in grade school to being attacked by 15 criminals with baseball bats while a crowd of 40 cheered them on in Georgetown, Washington DC to being jumped in Place Pigale in Paris by three guys with a knife to multiple other "situations" here and abroad, what saved my life was being aware that it was REAL.
People die or are injured everyday because they fail to realize that the situation is REAL.
Just look up the "knockout" game in YouTube for proof.
For example, when the gang in DC brought down the baseball bats on my head, through the blood and sweat I said "THIS IS REAL AND THEY WANT TO KILL ME!"
I grew up in North Philadelphia and had been jumped so I flashed back, in nanoseconds, to that reality as they kept assaulting me.
I made a quick and vital decision.
I saw my wife and son (then a toddler...now 33 with his own baby) in my mind's eye through all the blood, pain, and sweat.
For those first minutes, I said a quick prayer and then I went insane.
I used my forehead, fists, elbows, knees, feet, teeth and hips to strike back as they came in wave after wave.
(I actually had to go for an AID's blood test a few days later as one of the criminal's teeth punctured my knuckle.)
As it was a gang, I was fortunate enough to take out their gang leader and the fight went out of them.
As it was a gang, I was fortunate enough to take out their gang leader and the fight went out of them.
I was also blessed that I had a brief case with twenty dollars in quarters for my wife to do laundry that night I was able to use to block their strikes, and an umbrella to strike back.
Pushing the remaining spokes of the umbrella into the face of their huge leader stopped his assault.
As a waiter in a restaurant when I visited with a detective a week later said, "You were that guy. We went out to help you but you had 14 of them down."
I'm aware it could have ended differently.
What is important here is not the details.
What is important is to know that the decision you take to not say, "This can't be happening!" but to say, "THIS IS REAL AND I HAVE TO FIGHT!" will make the difference as to whether you live or die in an active shooter (murder) "event" or "situation."
With Christ as my witness, I can testify that that is true.
Decide to live.
Pushing the remaining spokes of the umbrella into the face of their huge leader stopped his assault.
As a waiter in a restaurant when I visited with a detective a week later said, "You were that guy. We went out to help you but you had 14 of them down."
I'm aware it could have ended differently.
What is important here is not the details.
What is important is to know that the decision you take to not say, "This can't be happening!" but to say, "THIS IS REAL AND I HAVE TO FIGHT!" will make the difference as to whether you live or die in an active shooter (murder) "event" or "situation."
With Christ as my witness, I can testify that that is true.
Decide to live.
Decide to fight back.
I got 56 stitches to my face and head that night.
I got 56 stitches to my face and head that night.
When the female doctor began to put the stitches in my head and face and I finally felt safe, I had an adrenaline dump and I felt like a freight train hit me.
But I was alive.
Not me, but there were instructors who used to teach women to submit to a rapist.
They argued back in the 1960's, mistakenly, that if the women submitted the rapist would go easy on them.
Experience and statistics eventually proved that view very, very wrong.
The rapist will harm and kill the woman anyway.
Never Give Up
There are parallels to martial arts training in this country.Not me, but there were instructors who used to teach women to submit to a rapist.
They argued back in the 1960's, mistakenly, that if the women submitted the rapist would go easy on them.
Experience and statistics eventually proved that view very, very wrong.
The rapist will harm and kill the woman anyway.
They are not nice or reasonable that way.
When I teach women, I always taught them to use their full arsenal to defend themselves, and to NEVER EVER give up.
I tell you the same when it comes to an "active shooter" (mass murderer).
Use your full arsenal to defend yourself.
Decide now to do so.
When I teach women, I always taught them to use their full arsenal to defend themselves, and to NEVER EVER give up.
I tell you the same when it comes to an "active shooter" (mass murderer).
Use your full arsenal to defend yourself.
Decide now to do so.
