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911, what is the nature of your emergency?

If somebody would have gone into main entrance to them all, I don't know.

Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. Are you prepared?

So today, Mike Glover and I are going to be talking about an active shooter situation.

And Mike has obviously a lot of experience in this, Mike, you know, teaching at Philcraft.

This is one of those things I'm sure you have many classes on. As a matter of fact, I think you just taught one here just about a week ago.

Yeah, I just taught a active shooter class in Modesto, California, one of our training facilities called SPEC Group.

And we had about a dozen or so people show up for that.

And it went really well. We had a good class where we start with concepts and kind of philosophy and then go into immediately going into hands-on training.

All right, so we're going to put ourselves, I think, today kind of in an active shooter situation.

And of course, you know, with all the trouble that's going around the world to think that it's not going to happen more frequently or it could potentially happen in your own backyard is a little naive here in America.

So obviously, one of the things you want to do is understand what it is that you're supposed to do, whether you're in a work environment, a mall situation, you know, any type of situation that you might be in, where there could be an active shooter that you end up getting engaged with.

Right now, let's say I'm out having coffee or something and Starbucks or I'm near a shopping center or something of that nature and all of a sudden shots are fired. And I know that they're close by.

Well, the first thing that we do, or in that I teach an active shooter situations is to not necessarily follow the protocols that I think the government has put out where they typically teach you to run, hide and fight.

Yeah. So, so the first thing is we don't want to we don't want to just get up and start moving without understanding the totality of the situation or as much information as we can observe.

And that's the first part of the acronym that I use is called off. And it's observed. You want to you want to have an understanding of your environment and an understanding of what's taking place.

Because a lot of times, you know, these active shooter situations, the worst of them typically have more than one person if they're a terrorist type man made catastrophe.

And you could be running into a baited ambush. You could be fleeing unnecessarily. And then putting yourself in more dangerous. The first thing we're going to do is observe and determine where the threat is coming from.

So in that situation where, you know, somebody starts firing a weapon outside of the fact that they, if they're killing people or not, they've already determined that they're using deadly force or at least demonstrating deadly force.

And the worst thing you could do is flee out the back door and run into the partner or flee and run out the front door and run into them. So observation is key.

So are you also in the observation phase or you cannot looking as well for where people might be running from so that you might even be able to identify the direction from which the shooter is at or is it just mass chaos. And so you may not even be able to identify that as part of the observed.

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