You’re at a mass shooting event armed. What do you do?

[Rockrivr1]

Engage or get out of dodge?

Personally I’d be thinking to mine and myself and get out of dodge. If I was alone I don’t know for sure. Probably still get out of dodge. Though I’m sure some would engage. Hard decision.

 

[cockpitbob]

GTFO (with any loved ones with me)

Everyone at that event could have gotten the license and a gun. Because I did does not make me obligated to risk my life for them.

 

[LakeTrout]

I’d use cool buzz words that internet commandos use

 

[Picton]

Lol.

It's not a hard decision at all if it's a supermarket or a movie or something.

I get out of Dodge. My gun's there to make sure I can do that, along with anyone else I love. Everybody else is on their own.

 

[LuvDog]

It depends.

Is my family with me? My primary concern is getting my family to safety.

Am I there with my family but we are separated? Then I’m going to look for them, I wouldn’t want to engage unless that’s the only option.

 

[robjax]

run and hide and defend myself if it becomes necessary.

I have my LTC and my guns to protect me and mine.

Every American is able to exercise their 2A rights.

If you choose not to and find yourself in a situation where you need a gun then it sucks to be you.

 

[weekendracer]

See what I wrote in the Allen event thread........

Engaging the threat puts your life in danger in more ways than one, despite all the chest thumping, I'm hardcore talk.

I know I say I'd engage the threat, but like the alien on the board, I'm wired different.

 

[B191299]

They don't issue superhero outfits with LTCs- get your family to safety asap.

 

[Ron Jablonski]

I like to tell my self I'd try to stop it but I've never been in a gun fight so I have no idea what I'd do. One things for sure I have no interest in getting in a gun fight with someone with a long gun and armor with my CCW. Also don't forget about that guy that died in a Walmart I think that went in and shot the active shooter, he was shot from behind by the second shooter, never saw it coming. I lean towards get out of Dodge, whatever increases the odds I go home to my family at the end of the day.

 

[Marty McFly]

Depends if I have my sash with me.

 

[240Geezer]

 

[Broc]

I would start a thread asking NES what to do.

 

[Waher]

The jurisprudent response is to retreat and only engage if in imminent mortal danger.

Odds of getting shot by responding police mistaking a Samaritan for the perp or getting jacked up by some Soros DA are as significant issues as catching lead from the perp as far as 'life ending events'.

Could you live with yourself having 'not done anything' is the other variable. If that's potentially going to eat you alive inside mentally and slowly kill you, then that has to be considered.

 

[Broc]

Serious answer. Depends. If I am hanging out with @VetteGirlMA, we are fighting.

 

[Compooky]

Everyone should get out of dodge and only engage if the bad guy is in the way.

If people are unable to engage then that’s a result of their own choices. Not counting children of course.

 

[lowbuckbob]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaLokC9hqk

 

[mcb]

I dunno … If I see them mowing down little kids I’m goin in.

 

[Grendizer138]

You guys know that kids generally aren’t carrying guns, right?

I’m getting kinda tired of the “they shoulda had a gun” line.

If you’re alone and have the equipment, mindset, and opportunity, kill that mutherf***er.

 

[BONZCNC]

I’ll do whatever it takes for me and my family, and if that means a clear run for the door, we OUT. And if it doesn’t…….

 

[Uzi2]

It would depend on a few things.

1. The state that I'm in at the time, (geographical state, not state of mind).
2. Alone or with family.
3. Proximity to the perpetrator and whether or not there's a clear shot. (same room 12-20-30 feet and everyone is on the floor or running away, then yes, I'm emptying magazines at them.
4. What gun I happen to be carrying.

All the get out of Dodge responses reveal just what the commie pricks in government want to hear. They want to leave you defenseless and they don't want anyone doing their duty to keep good societal order.

Flame on....If I can make the shot/s, the lead's going to fly.......at least while I'm in Kentucky. I don't give a rat's ass what some minority or commie prick has to say about it either when their precious criminal bastard is buried in their grave.

 

[Picton]

All the get out of Dodge responses reveal just what the commie pricks in government want to hear. They want to leave you defenseless and they don't want anyone doing their duty to keep good societal order.

I don't have a "duty to keep good societal order."

I have a duty to keep my family from dying.

That's as far as it goes for me. You can disagree, but you don't get to decide for me. "Order" is what cops do. Want to keep order? Go be a cop.

 

[headednorth]

"Order" is what cops do.

 

[Individualist]

It would depend on a few things.

1. The state that I'm in at the time, (geographical state, not state of mind).
2. Alone or with family.
3. Proximity to the perpetrator and whether or not there's a clear shot. (same room 12-20-30 feet and everyone is on the floor or running away, then yes, I'm emptying magazines at them.
4. What gun I happen to be carrying.

All the get out of Dodge responses reveal just what the commie pricks in government want to hear. They want to leave you defenseless and they don't want anyone doing their duty to keep good societal order.

Flame on....If I can make the shot/s, the lead's going to fly.......at least while I'm in Kentucky. I don't give a rat's ass what some minority or commie prick has to say about it either when their precious criminal bastard is buried in their grave.

All great points. In Mass you’d likely be tried for murder if you had the ability to get away but didn’t. I’m not saying you’d be found guilty but you would be bankrupted trying to fight it.

I would do whatever I had to in order to get my family, friends and myself out safely. Anything more than that would be situational.

 

[yogi]

Pretty sure me and my G26 with a full 11 rounds of lung blowing out 9mm would fully engage the enemy....for about 30 seconds until I was shot by either the enemy, law enforcement or a self inflicted wound as I was ducking from a hail storm of bullets

 

[EddieZoom]

I can't believe no one has answered "whip out the phone and record content for my tic-toc channel".

As others have said, with family or not...that would likely change my response. Also important to consider that "good guy with a gun" looks a lot like "bad guy with a gun" to anyone responding to the event.

 

[GunCat]

We should sticky this, and link it for all the chest-puffing folks that chime in on other posts with "Mannn, if I was there, I woulda.....(insert whatever comment about how they would have shot all the bad guys, no questions asked)"

 

[Picton]

Also important to consider that "good guy with a gun" looks a lot like "bad guy with a gun" to anyone responding to the event.

Yeah. That too.

I don't see the point of exercising what some think of as my "duty to keep good societal order" when some Boy In Blue is going to show up in three minutes and "exercise" his, against me.

 

[rep308]

Sorry people, I'm figuring out how to get out alive including any family or friends I'm with. When I'm in the clear I'll call the cops. I know the limits of my abilities, and I'm not another Eli Dicken at the Greenwood Mall.

 

[FancyGunz]

Yippee-ki-yay

 

[Daddy Mac]

The very first order of business would of course be a tactical roll to the nearest cover. Unless I was to directly encounter the shooter, I'm trucking. My EDC is a poor choice to counter a long gun. Especially a scary, black, assault rifle.