{"id":88229,"date":"2022-12-01T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88229"},"modified":"2022-12-01T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:18:19","slug":"88229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88229","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

BARR: \u2018Run, Hide, and Fight\u2019 Makes As Much Sense As Duct Tape To Stop Terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the anthrax scare shortly thereafter, the federal government urged Americans to prepare for possible future attacks by, among other things, sealing the windows of their homes with plastic sheeting and duct tape.<\/p>\n

More recently, in the aftermath of violent incidents involving armed criminals targeting \u201csoft\u201d targets such as students in schools, shoppers in malls, or worshipers in churches, Uncle Sam has pressed two similarly unhelpful strategies: \u201crun, hide, fight\u201d and gun control.<\/p>\n

Neither of these strategies, which Washington has repeatedly promoted, has prevented or even minimized deaths or injuries caused by criminals targeting students, shoppers, co-workers, or church goers. Still, as Sonny and Cher declared in their 1967 hit, \u201cthe beat goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with other advice proffered by federal agencies \u2014 whether about what car to drive or foods to eat \u2014 the pointers about responding to active shooter incidents is not only unhelpful, but counterproductive. This has been demonstrated repeatedly in cases where individuals chose to confront armed perpetrators rather than run away from them, and in so doing saved lives.<\/p>\n

Whether it was the armed and trained church security parishioner at the West Freeway Church in White Settlement, Texas in December 2019, the armed and trained young man at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana last July, or the individual at the Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado earlier this month, taking action\u00a0against<\/i>\u00a0armed criminals bent on murdering innocent victims is a strategy far superior to one that advocates running and hiding.<\/p>\n

Even when a passive response plan appears to make sense, as when a murderous gunman barged into the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas this past summer and began murdering children, things can go tragically awry (in that case, police themselves hid and failed to fight).<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the many actual incidents in which individuals\u2019 actions confronting shooters saved lives, government publications continue to\u00a0downplay\u00a0<\/i>taking the initiative to confront an active shooter. The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s publication,\u00a0\u201cActive Shooter, How to Respond<\/a>\u201d\u00a0admonishes readers that any \u201cattempt to take the shooter down\u201d should be considered\u00a0only<\/i>\u00a0\u201cas a last resort.\u201d In other words, wait until everything else fails before confronting the shooter. Common sense alone suggests that such a point comes only\u00a0after<\/i>\u00a0precious time and lives have been lost.<\/p>\n

Clearly, confronting an \u201cactive shooter\u201d carries risk. Riley Howell was mortally wounded when, in May 2019, he rushed a perpetrator who had entered his classroom at the University of North Carolina and started firing a pistol at students. By all accounts, Howell\u2019s heroic sacrifice saved numerous lives.<\/p>\n

Do the potential benefits of confronting a criminal shooter outweigh the risks? Ask the 240 parishioners at the West Freeway Church of Christ who were saved as a result of the quick, defensive response by church security members to an active shooter armed with a shotgun. Pose that question to the many dozens of people attending the Club Q on November 19th\u00a0who did\u00a0not<\/i> become victims, thanks to the two club patrons who chose not to run and hide, but quickly tackled the shooter and subdued him with his own firearm.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Biden administration\u2019s knee-jerk response to any active shooter criminal act, regardless of circumstances, is \u201cGUN CONTROL!\u201d Sometimes, that refrain becomes almost comical in its detachment from the real world.<\/p>\n

For example, following the Club Q murders and another by a disgruntled Walmart employee in a company breakroom in Chesapeake, Virginia the same week, President Biden demanded a\u00a0ban on all \u201csemiautomatic firearms.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Such an absurdly broad strategy would mean outlawing every Glock or Colt Model 1911 handgun, along with hundreds of other models of\u00a0semiautomatic handguns and rifles owned lawfully by millions of citizens,\u00a0<\/a>and that are sold every business day in the United States.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s statement illustrates the degree to which his administration and its supporters remain ignorant of firearms, firearms owners, and the value of a citizenry that has lawful access to firearms for defensive purposes.<\/p>\n

The gun-control shibboleth urged by the Left as the solution to every mass shooting incident, coupled with the government\u2019s \u201crun, hide, and fight\u201d strategy for dealing with an active shooter, make as much sense as advocating duct tape and plastic sheeting as a way to thwart acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BARR: \u2018Run, Hide, and Fight\u2019 Makes As Much Sense As Duct Tape To Stop Terrorism Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the anthrax scare shortly thereafter, the federal government urged Americans to prepare for possible future attacks by, among other things, sealing the windows of their homes with plastic sheeting and duct tape. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88230,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88229\/revisions\/88230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}