The odds are no doubt greater of being killed in a car accident on the way home from church than being in the wrong mall at the wrong time i.e. a terrorist attack.
I am truly a natural worrier, but this one doesn't even make the list for me.
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- Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:38 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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- Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:25 pm
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- Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:46 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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Perhaps we can agree that we need to take "fear" out of these discussions.
If we walk-around fearful of a terrorist attack, the terrorists have already won.
If we walk-around fearful of a terrorist attack, the terrorists have already won.
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:39 pm
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Still, unless you actually work in a mall, the chances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time are incredibly small.ripnbst wrote:I fear preparing for something like this is not as "fanatical" as some anti's would like to make you think.
I have not added this to the list of things I worry about.
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:17 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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I just spent three and a half hours the other night watching Troy the Director's Extended Edition, a swords-and-sandals epic, and am embarrassed to admit I don't recall what kind of footwear the antagonists wore. They did manage to run and jump and climb and kill each other with great efficiency though...Chris Smith wrote:That's good advice. To paraphrase an old saying, for want of a shoe the battle was lost.
It was a pretty good movie if you can stand to sit for that long.
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:03 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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I think this is exactly right--if a terror group posts-up outside mall entrances they are most likely to do so at the major access points and not the emergency/service entries.Excaliber wrote:Have you noticed that you don't ever see products being delivered to stores via the main hallways in malls?
That's because there is a series of back hallways behind all the stores where these activities take place.
My instruction to my family for an active shooter situation in a mall is to run to the rear of whatever store they're in, go through the door labeled "employees only," go around, over, or through anyone who tries to stop them, and follow the exit signs into the service corridor and out of the building. .
The same plan works for most other stores and restaurants (where you go through the kitchen), except there is no service corridor.
Further, if there ARE BGs posted at the service doors, the back storage areas of any small retail store are more likely IMO to serve as decent hiding places than anywhere else in the mall.
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:42 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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For a Mills-style (one level) mall the best escape would be out-the-back of whatever shop you might be in. But I don't know about places like Barton Creek Square with its multiple levels (and some internal shops). Are there other escape routes than thru the main hallways to "anchor stores"?Cedar Park Dad wrote:I don't now about the Nigeria Mall, but most closed in (vs. open air) malls at least here have lots and lots of exits. In contrast to crazy shooter scenario, I'd proffer the best solution is absolutely not to find somewhere safe and sit tight, but instead get out of there through the nearest anchor store in the mall.
Flooding "anchor stores" to their exits sounds to me like a theater/church/don't-yell-fire-there scenario.
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:45 pm
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Yeah that they're charging TX state sales tax now causes us to examine "other sellers" there for tax-free, but otherwise it's not slowed us down.CowboyEngineer wrote:Amazon.com
We find ourselves in shopping malls maybe once every three years or so. Odds are with us.
"Run, hide, take cover" is the best advice--our CCWs ain't gonna help us against automatic weapons.
Now let's all say together "Thank You BHO and The US Govmint" for this newest threat to the American way of life.