Mistake one occurred when a female police officer boarded the stopped bus to confront the robber. He quickly drew a handgun on her in a crowded bus full of passengers.
She retreated to the bus doorway and drew her weapon. Clearly, she wasn’t quite prepared for the situation she found. Fortunately, the robber allowed the passengers to exit the bus. Unfortunately, shots were exchanged between the officer and robber before she fled the bus.
ASF promotes Rule One:
You and only you can choose to cultivate an attitude that no one has the right to harm you or your loved ones and you have a right and a responsibility to stop anyone who threatens to harm you and yours.”
The second lesson learned is that there are evil people in the world who will let nothing get in their way to do what they want. Good people must be prepared to stand between evildoers and innocent people to use enough violence to stop evil definitively.
At one point, one of the responding officers reached for his 870 shotgun and began firing at the robber through the windshield of the bus. Unfortunately, the shotgun had only five rounds in it. A long gun can be useful in a shootout like this, but only the right rifle with the capacity to hold more rounds and not require reloading.
The paramount skill needed always is marksmanship. That can only be attained through training and practice until your confidence is high and returning fire with bad guys comes as second nature.
Marksmanship in a real deadly force encounter might mean that you need to be ready to make a precision shot on a threat, and you must be prepared emotionally and skill-wise to do so. Shooting a threat in the face, a target the size of a 3×5 card, under stress is no small feat!”
Part of the resolution of the shootout came down to officers having a good sense of the distance from which you can effectively use your sidearm. The robber fled the bus and took cover behind a parked van, holding a bystander hostage. The officer who had the shotgun discarded it in favor of his handgun, but had some challenges with the distance he needed to cover.
During the exchange of fire, a female officer was hit in the leg. Three of her team responded immediately to apply tourniquets to help stabilize the wound and restrict bleeding. It was obvious they were well trained in this regard. That leads to another key lesson:
First aid skills are important. If you’re going to train and prepare to take a life to defend yourself, you should also have skills, training, and equipment to save life should you need to.”
Police finally got the robber down and the situation under control. But for a while, the general public in the nearby vicinity was endangered by a shootout that easily could have occurred in the Wild West.
Instead, it happened in Wild Dundalk.
This shootout is just one of the range of valuable lessons ASF offers to promote effective self-defense, good marksmanship and gun safety.
Source: Active Self Protection
Most Leo’s don’t bother going to a range to practice until their qualification comes up if they do at all. I was surprised and more than disappointed when I heard that straight from the horse’s mouth.
Looks like a Muslim to me
Jessie. Do ya know any thing about the police or the training lol my father 33 year officer an you half to go to the range twice amonth for practice an every 3 month you half to re certify. My father retired an he still half to be certify every 3 month even owning a chl an keep a retired badge. He just had one Monday.
Jesse A Lister I’m very aware of the education, training or LEOs.
Mark Place
I can criticize.
This was right around the corner from my mother’s house I drove past there maybe 30 minutes before this happened