08/11/2019
SAFELY COUNTERING THE ACTIVE SHOOTER:
by Suarez International
Something that seems to never be addressed elsewhere is that your tactics for dealing with the active shooter must keep these dynamics in mind. The LE are coming expecting to shoot the bad guy. Your goal as a happenstance attendee of the event is to is to shoot the bad guy if you can, without getting shot by him, or mistakenly by the first responders.
Your tactics and methods must take that into consideration.
Off duty and UC LE have always kept these things in mind and how to comport themselves to avoid a blue-on-blue event. It is always a risk.
The thing I have always kept in mind is an analogy of the Lord Of The Rings theme when Frodo puts on the ring, Sauron and his minions can see him. It is a similar thing. You are invisible until you bring out the pistol. Then you are a part of the game and not just a spectator. So bring it into action...kill what needs to be killed...and become invisible again...or at least less visible. In active shooter events there is no capture...no holding bad guys at gun point...none of that. It is locate, close, and eliminate...then holster or hold at close SUL.
What you want the LE to see is either the man and not the gun, or failing to provide that image, a clean cut, fit man that may possibly be off duty LE handling his weapon like a professional. There is never a second chance to make a first impression, and you will be judged by what you are doing at the moment of first visual.
