Six Minutes That Could Change Everything! Time and math. Six minutes that could save hundreds of future lives in our schools. If you are a parent, school board member, teacher, administrator, coach, cook, bus driver, or fan in the stands, please watch and consider. This should interest you, especially if you know the gratuitous harm of innocent children is wrong. If you wish to take a deeper dive, check out this IFC blog and the Video.
Talk to me about the chances of survival waiting in the kill zone for the minutes it takes for the 911 call, then radio calls, the getting to the scene, the entering the building, etc.
We love our cops, but again, time and math. No doubt the violence in schools and churches will become more complex, but right now it’s still mainly one attacker. Move to sound and solve the problem. Its way less complex in the first few seconds when you can actually hear or even see the shooter, then when the first responders show up several minutes later and there is a double-digit victim count, and the shooter could be on any of multiple floors or wings of one or more building.
Eli Dickens was close enough to see and hear the Greenwood Mall shooter and put him down, hitting two of four from forty-two yards, then six for six as he closed distance to maintain a clear line of fire. Problem solved in 15 seconds. Dickens had little training, had never taken a tactical course or done a shoothouse. He had however made the decision long before that he would be willing to do what was required if the day ever came.
Jack Wilson calmly put down the shooter in White Settlement with a head shot within five seconds, after watching his friends get shot.
The training done by IFC was done to begin the process of building fundamentals and start the stress inoculation process.
We didn’t expect SWAT cops in three days. But we saw folks with heart, fully commit to 36 hours on the range and multiple force on force iterations.
Passing a qualification is no guarantee of future performance, but the overall quality hit ratio among 13 educators was 93% using the FBI bottle target with a 14×16 thoracic box and no shots were allowed outside the shaded silhouette. That was an automatic DQ from the qual. Again, making them accountable in their mind that every round fired has their name assigned to it. I’d\be proud to have these folks in my school or house of worship.
I have also got to participate in some well-intentioned, but ridiculous mandated training where we were expected to act like sheep. Instead, I encouraged the staff to aggressively fight once the door opened. Use the blind spots, use improved tools like the fire extinguisher, The gunman was disarmed upon entry, and we called “scenario over. It’s time we give the intended victims the permission and mindset to not just prevail, but win, on their worst day.
As Jonathon Gilliam wrote, Sheep No More.
jM
Having participated in active shooter drills at schools and government facilities. Including Federal Government facilities with military command structure. I can with experience tell you that relying on active shooter training. Gets people unnecessarily killed. Simply because of the tactics employed. Not counting those already dead. before LE arrives. In just about every example I’ve attended, especially in government facilities. It’s little more than a dog and pony show. In every situation, people have known for days it was going to happen and prepared emotionally for the event. To somehow make people believe they will survive. If you are ever involved i a real active shooter situation and can’t properly defend yourself. Your chances of survival are prohibitive at best.