489-Lessons From Las Vegas: A Few Practical Ways You Can Prepare For Being Involved in an Active Shooter Scenario
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
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🗓️ 3 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As we all watch and process the mass shooting in Las Vegas this weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few lessons learned.
I always try to process an event like this with an eye towards the lessons I can learn.
The tactical situation in Las Vegas was impossible. I don't think you could imagine a worse situation to be in as a concert-goer. An absolute nightmare.
But, I do have a few thoughts that I think can help. And since I don't hear anyone sharing anything practical, here are my suggestions.
If you have additional practical, actionable ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Joshua
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| 0:00.0 | In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting here on October 1, 2017, I'd like to use a few minutes of your attention to share some suggestions and thoughts that I hope will be helpful to you. |
| 0:12.0 | This is radical personal finance and I try to keep my commentary and discussion on the show focused on personal finance. |
| 0:20.0 | Today's conversation will be tangentially related to personal finance. |
| 0:24.8 | Not talking about any personal finance techniques or specific financial planning discussions, |
| 0:29.9 | but I do think that the comments I have to share with you are appropriate because they are practical |
| 0:35.4 | and they're related to real life. |
| 0:38.2 | In the same way that I consider a discussion of home security, how to protect your items against theft to be an entirely valid aspect of personal |
| 0:47.1 | finance. |
| 0:48.1 | I consider a discussion of personal safety and security to keep you when possible from being killed thus leaving |
| 0:55.8 | your family without you and without your income or to keep you from being injured thus leaving |
| 1:01.1 | you and your family without income. |
| 1:03.2 | I consider these topics of personal safety to be important in the context of personal finance |
| 1:10.8 | discussions. |
| 1:15.8 | Everything I have to share with you in today's show will be very practical and I believe will be very useful to you. |
| 1:19.2 | Whenever we have events like this, I always try to analyze them and learn any lessons that I can apply to my |
| 1:26.4 | own life and I'll share just simply my lesson that I have learned from this event and some of the |
| 1:32.3 | specific actions that I'm going to take as a |
| 1:34.5 | result of this particular Las Vegas event. I think this is a very practical way |
| 1:40.0 | to approach analysis of events that other people face is to always look for the |
| 1:44.6 | practical lesson not to look for the thing to get mad about or the thing to get upset |
| 1:48.8 | about but look for the practical lesson the thing that you can practically do. This is very important to me that we |
| 1:54.3 | always focus on what we can do and focus on the things that we can control and |
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