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Tactical
Scenario: 02-2006
A Late Night Purchase at the
Stop-&-Rob
You
and your wife were out late at a movie.
On the way home, your wife realized there is no milk for the AM coffee
in the refrigerator. There is a 24-hour
giant grocery store about four miles out of your way but there is a local chain
convenience store, which sells gasoline, milk, bread etc at a reasonable prices
right along your way home. Your wife
makes an executive decision to stop at the convenience store because it is too
late and too far to drive to the grocery store.
You
pull up to the well light convenience store, parking in the spaces reserved for
store shoppers. On your initial
observation, you note two people are getting gasoline at the pumps. There are quite a few cars in the parking
lot unattended. The store closes at
midnight. It is now 11:45 PM.
As
you walk to the door, you look through the glass on the store front and notice
at the milk cooler is a middle-aged couple getting milk. At the Deli, section
is a young Hispanic male who is ordering a sandwich. At the check out counter a middle age overweight male who looks
rather mean pulls out a hatchet. The man starts to yell at the clerk who is by
herself behind the counter. He raises it towards her. You cannot hear anything because you have not yet opened the door
to go into the store. The clerk recoils backwards in fear, falling into the
cigarette rack. The distance from front door to the man with the hatchet is 20
feet.
On
your strong side is a Browning Hi-Power in 9mm loaded with Cor-Bon ammunition.
You have cell phone, pepper spray, knife, light and a loaded magazine on your
person. Your wife is still in the car.
State
what action you would take and why.
Response to the February Tactical
Scenario
By: Jeff
Jeter
Okay, I’ll bite. Looks to me like the grocery
store option just became plan A. Sorry honey, you’re executive powers
were just revoked. I need to be some place else right now. As for
the robbery going on inside the store, it’s just that, a robbery. Now had
the actor jumped the counter there’s a good probability my actions will change.
I believe at that moment you could articulate the clerk’s odds of
surviving this encounter has gone way down, and it was “necessary” (thanks
Skip) for something to be done right now.
Go back out to the car and call 911. Report the
incident and subject. Lock the car doors and move the car from the front of
building and warn the others at the pump.
Keep a visual on the suspect and report clothes,
vehicle, actions, anything else that might be going on.
You weren’t in the store and you were not in
danger. It isn’t your fight.