Originally Posted by
feudist
For the customers, leaving, via the front or back door(you know where it is, right?) is also valid strategery. This incident started in the store and then paused as the deadboy went out to his car. As a customer, the moment a serious argument breaks out or you hear someone say "Call the police" it's time to drop whatever items are in your hand and exit one or the other.
Otherwise, you're going to have a front seat at a display of the most unpleasant human stupidity...at best. At worst you're remaining in a four way downrange between the victim(who says she's not armed?), the clerk(likewise), the suspect and cops. Hell, maybe other customers.We just saw an example of how sideways that can go.
As CCWs, our "Mindset and Tactics" should be focused on awareness and OODAing quickly. Our tactics should center on active avoidance, disengagement and escape.
Tactics, just like Kung Fu, the rollover prone and pulling the trigger straight back need to be practiced and visualized regularly.
1-Preclusion: I don't have to go inside stop-n-robs, and I certainly don't have to go to that one because they have good breakfast burritos or gas is 5 cents cheaper. Shit can go down anywhere, but it surely goes down mostly in the places you'd expect. Simply don't be there.
OBEY THE RULE OF STUPIDS.
2-Avoidance: "If there is a doubt, there is no doubt." Go elsewhere. If anything makes you go "hmm"-that's 100% enough. Listen to your Spidey sense. Be unpleasantly judgmental about people and unChristian in your lack of sympathy(you can do this as a Jew, Muslim or Atheist). Empathy is right out.
3-Disengagement: Polite(but not courteous) meaningless pleasantries or firm denials while unhesitatingly walking away from strangers who are trying to engage you. Farnam calls them tape loops. Craig calls it MUC. You're not actually listening to what's being said, you're doglegging your route to avoid an ambush and create distance from whoever is trying to distract/approach you. If you can't walk through the Cable salespeople in the aisle at Walmart without breaking stride, you need practice. Or a MUC class.
4-Escape: The moment hostilities begin in your hearing you un-ass the AO. Instantly. From a determined walk to an all out sprint. If an interlocutor starts displaying pre-assault cues just scamper off blowing your rape whistle possibly spraying OC like a skunk. You either get away or he drops the act.
5-Preemption: Now we're at the tough guy part. The part everyone practices and talks about. If there is no exit or time, whatever you hit with, hit first, hit hard enough, hit enough...and stop.
6-Break Contact: If they desist, r.u.n.n.o.f.t. or are convulsing on the ground it's all one to you. Leave the area. Your job isn't to teach lessons, say witty things, detain for the gendarmes or pursue and capture. Get to nearby safety and then notify LE.
In this incident, the ideal outcome for the customers(whether they were armed or not) in that store would have been to hear about it on the news that evening, give themselves a gold star for alertness, and cross that store off their travel destination list.
Some guys resist these ideas on the basis that they have a "right" to go anywhere(and they can handle themselves), or that "someone needs to stand up", and taken as a whole this sounds like simple cowardice.
It's not.
It's expert, calculated and rehearsed cowardice.
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