{"id":730,"date":"2007-04-16T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/16\/my-advice-to-my-kids\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:57:50","slug":"my-advice-to-my-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"My Advice To My Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

As news of the various, horriffic incidents like at Virginia Tech, Red Lake, Columbine and other schools has come in over the years, I’ve built up a sizeable body of advice for my kids.<\/p>\n

If someone points a gun at you and tells you “get in the car” – don’t.\u00a0 Resist, fight back, run away.\u00a0 Your odds of survival are better with a thug shooting at you if you’re\u00a0a moving target than if you go to a secondary crime scene.\u00a0 Even if you’re hit, a 9mm bullet has statistically about a 17% chance of killing you; at a secondary crime scene, your odds of survival are probably in single digits.<\/p>\n

If someone tells you “get on your knees” or “line up” – don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Run.\u00a0 Break away, away from the shooter.\u00a0 Hitting a moving, dodging target is a lot harder than it looks on TV.\u00a0\u00a0 Shooters like the dirtball at Virginia Tech or all the other school shootings are counting on compliant, scared victims; they found them<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of his friends was in a Norris classroom targeted by the gunman, Jenkins said.<\/p>\n

“He was very fortunate,” Jenkins said. “He said every single person in the room was shot, killed and was in the ground. He laid on the ground with everyone \u2026 he played dead and he was OK.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Running and getting away throws off the shooter’s plan at the very least.\u00a0 And again, even if the scumbag shoots, his odds of hitting you are much slimmer if you’re moving, and if he hits you, your odds of living are much better if you’re moving away, fast, than if he’s putting a gun to the back of your immobile head.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – and if your school tries to “lock down” around you?\u00a0 Get out.\u00a0 Any way you can; break away before your teacher can lock the door – run over her, go out the window, whatever it takes; do not sit still with a bunch of other immobile targets.\u00a0\u00a0 At the very best, your school’s administrators’ primary motivation is to “manage the situation”, not protect you, personally.\u00a0 Sitting ducks make easier targets.\u00a0 Most of the dead in the Red Lake massacre three years ago were sitting in a locked-down classroom, like cattle penned up for the slaughter.\u00a0 So were many of the dead at Virginia Tech today.<\/p>\n

Speed and evasion are your best protection<\/em>, until that blessed day when you can get your own carry permit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As news of the various, horriffic incidents like at Virginia Tech, Red Lake, Columbine and other schools has come in over the years, I’ve built up a sizeable body of advice for my kids. If someone points a gun at you and tells you “get in the car” – don’t.\u00a0 Resist, fight back, run away.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}