Evacuating Public Spaces When the Shooting Starts

Miguel Gonzalez has a reaction that I can get behind. I am actually baffled by the stupid.

There was a shooting incident at a Costco in Ohio. Click thru for some details on that. The real issue was that people were not getting out of Dodge.

If you hear gunfire, anywhere but at a shooting range, get out of the vicinity. Run, like your life depended on it. And another thing...

A public service announcement of sorts:

For the love of sweet Baby Jesus riding a winged camel, abandon the gorramed shopping cart and get the fuck out of the area!

At best toss it to a side where it won’t be blocking a escape route for others or incoming route for First Responders.

Do people not realize that you don't own the stuff in "your shopping cart" until after you've checked out? And even if you have checked out, $200 worth of stuff is not worth my life. Where do you draw the line on abandoning paper towels? (Nothing in that cart is an irreplaceable family heirloom.)

Miguel also has a Book recommendation: First 30 Seconds by Ed Monk. It covers a related topic, school shooters.

I don’t recall the last time I got so mad reading a book. And I am not mad at the author by any stretch of the imagination, but I am seething at bureaucrats and politicians that have blocked, impeded and belittled armed personnel in schools.

Ed Monk did an amazing job collecting the data on active shooters, what made them most of them “successful” and what made some a failure. And then he goes on to make us rethink in realistic terms about the number of casualties which will never be zero, but we can keep to a minimal number if real common sense is applied and not what passes a “common sense regulations” by politicians and activists who I believe are just stuck of what does not work to line their pockets with that sweet donations’ cash.