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Tactical Scenario:  01-2006

 

 

The Big Discount Mart Scenario

By:  Mark Henry

 

Today went just like every other day this week, busy.  You got up early for a 12-hour day then went to bed late because of home activities.  It is 10 o’clock and time to get to bed before tomorrow starts.  An early morning trip is planned with your boys aged 12 and 14 to go to the family cabin in the mountains, a 2 hour trip.  This is going to be a workday with just the guys to get things ready for the family when spring arrives. Just as you are ready to go to sleep you realize that you forgot to pick up some much-needed hardware items at the Big Discount Mart, which closes at 11 o‘clock.  The store does not open until 10 AM tomorrow. Picking up the hardware tomorrow will cut into the workday. You drag yourself out of bed get dressed and to go Big Discount Mart pick up the items, just a little mad at yourself because you had forgotten.

 

While in Big Discount Mart, you decide to head to the electronics section to find a music CD to listen to with the boys on the way to the cabin. Two aisles away, you hear a male scream. It is not a cream of happy surprise but rather one of panic and pain. Emerging from the aisle is a clerk running and looking very scared.  He has blood running down his right arm due to a very large wound.  Very shortly after him in hot pursuit is a man with a long knife screaming, “I’ll kill you, I‘ll kill you.”  The two are heading in your general direction at a very fast pace.

 

In your right front pants pocket is a J Frame revolver fully loaded with Cor-Bon ammunition. You curse yourself because in your hast to get out of the house and get the hardware items for tomorrow you didn’t bring your cell phone, pepper spray, knife, light or spare ammunition.

 

Explain what action you would take and why.

 

 

The Big Discount Mart Response

By: Steve Fisher

 

First, off get off the line of the attack and get some cover between you and the clerk and the attacker.  If the attack continues draw down and order the attacker to get down and drop the knife while still creating distance and keeping cover between the two of you.  Yell out for some one to call 911.