Here's a few tactics or operational ideas to keep in mind. Our goal is minimize your involvement with the political/legal system.
The unarmed citizen
We all know stories of someone
who allowed an unauthorized user to inspect or handle a firearm which resulting
in a tragedy. Your concealed weapon
should remain concealed until you need it.
People around you may need to know you have it, but unless you are
arming them they don’t need to see, handle, test, dry-fire, count rounds. The same goes for long gun. They should remain under your control. Do not allow others to ‘play’ with them even
in your presence.
If you are forced in to arming someone,
particular attention must be paid to teaching the NRA three rules of gun
handling on the spot, especially the zero order rule: all guns are always
loaded until you personally check them.
Frankly it is a bad idea to arm
an untrained person without spending an intensive period of training. The more I think about it, never arm someone
in an emergency that you would not arm on an ordinary day.
Preserve evidence
By the time order is restored,
evidence justifying your use of force can go missing. The knife he had, the gun in her pants, the
gasoline bomb gone, leaving you, your gun and someone you shot. In this day of video cameras, do not depend
on the crowd providing justifying video tapes.
Many times the action is captured only after the gun comes out and shots
are fired. The conditions leading up to
the incident are often missed, sometimes edited out. It’s not
in the interest of the participants to record their bad acts. Just your reaction to them. Take advantage of the camera in your phone and
photograph the gun or knife before it goes missing. A photo of fragments of a broken bottle can help
support your claims.
Do not place yourself or someone
else in jeopardy to get these images.
Consider a Go-Pro camera wielded
by a second person recording the entire event might be a second deterrent. Police rejected the notion of wearing
cameras, but for those who have acted correctly, properly and legally, having a
video of what the officer saw and did can make a difference.
Pick your involvement.
Don’t insert yourself into
situations not involving you or your loved ones. When witnessing a situation develop, increase
your distance.
Sean Ernest Ruis, who was denied
service inside a Michigan store for refusing to wear a mask turned and stabbed a
77-year-old customer who was standing there.
For your edification, Ruis attempted to flee and was stopped by a police
officer. Ruis forced his own death when
he attacked her and forced the officer to shoot him. Here too, having a video record of the confrontation,
shows the officer justified.
Finally, expect to be
arrested. The police aren’t interested
that you called for them for help or a have a photo of a gun on the ground. They
don’t care that the injured person flashed the gun and looked like they were
drawing it. I often lump the entire
justice system under the term police.
It’s the attorney side that will be interested in why you thought it was
necessary to shoot someone.
Last Thoughts
Finally, make sure you identify
who you are aiming at. It has been said
before and it remains true now. You may
not go to jail for shooting the person you intended to shoot, but you will
surely go to jail for shooting the person you did not intend to shoot.
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