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74novaman wrote:[
To put it politely, I think I would just get the heck out of dodge. It is a lot easier to get out of the way of things like that. You can help warn others away from the area, etc for anyone who isn't okay with "doing nothing".

...assuming that you actually pick on what is happening and soon enough to beat feet out of there. My comment was made with the consideration that I might be downrange of one of the shooters and not pick up on it until the guns are actually fired and lead is already on the way towards me. If it is going down directly around me, I could hope to sense that things aren't right. If it is happening a couple of rows of parked cars away, I'm not so sure. If I hear gunshots and cannot immediately figure out the direction, I'm going to be grabbing asphalt real quick.

I guess Wally Walks have more than one purpose.

In the video, there is a car with miss-matched paint and all of its doors open in the middle of the LEOs. It was the orange cone beside it that drew my eye. Based on that, this could have been a conflict that started elsewhere and ended up in the Wal-Mart parking lot. I'd be willing to bet that there were drugs or gangs or both involved.

If I had to assess threats, I'm actually more concerned about the likelihood of a situation like this than I am about some BG sticking a gun specifically in my face. I doubt that guys involved in a shooting like this care much what happens to their shots that miss and I think one of the toughest things to recognize is when you are about to become collateral damage from something on the other side of a large parking lot.